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Understanding Gulf of Evaluation and Execution

The document discusses key concepts in user experience design, including the Gulf of Evaluation and Gulf of Execution, which relate to users' ability to assess and execute actions within a system. It also addresses various research methods, sampling techniques, and the importance of ideation and user feedback in the design process. Additionally, it highlights misconceptions about design practices and user testing, emphasizing the need for effective communication and understanding of user needs.

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Understanding Gulf of Evaluation and Execution

The document discusses key concepts in user experience design, including the Gulf of Evaluation and Gulf of Execution, which relate to users' ability to assess and execute actions within a system. It also addresses various research methods, sampling techniques, and the importance of ideation and user feedback in the design process. Additionally, it highlights misconceptions about design practices and user testing, emphasizing the need for effective communication and understanding of user needs.

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Gulf of Evaluation :

+The ability to tell if the system did what the user was trying to do

Gulf of Execution :

+The discrepancy between what user is trying to do and what he/she able to do with the system

If a user of a system is unable to ____ whenever an action they took helped to move them.....

+ determine : The Gulf of Evaluation

+ find : The Gulf of Exescution

Feature driven usability testing : Type of research that are engaged by 2-3 people design team

False statement :

- When sketching to come up with different solutions , you should stop the First time you run out of
ideas

- While designers have to set defaults for many design elements , .....

- In order to have a mental model of a system that enable them to use that system .....

- Formal research methods are always preferable to informal methods for doing formative research

- It is not the role of the UX researcher to assign severity to problems found in user testing.....

- Affordances of user interface don't have much influence on how easily user learn to use the system ....

- If you take good notes , there's no reason to capture a screen recording of user test sessions ...

- Personas are purely fictional character

- Wizard of Oz prototypes (???) are most useful for prototyping screen-based applications

- Designer should aim to generate about half a dozen solutions when they ideate

- The primary concern of design is to create artifacts and system that are aesthetically pleasing

- Ideation mostly happens at the start of design process when the ....

- You should always include a pre-test questionnaire in any user test u conduct
Schema : A collection of associated concepts in long-term memory

Reification : means "to make an idea real or concrete"

Signifier : A feature .... communicates through verbiage or imagery what will happen if an action is taken

Instrument : .... describe the actual questions you ask people

Population : The total set of people you want to be able to represent with your survey

Probability sample : Every member of your Population has some chance to be selected for the survey

Ideation : Brainstorming, morphological analysis and "the worst IDEA"

Feedback : A change in an environment or system that indicates that a user's action was
recognized .........

Moderator : The person who greets participants and communicates with them through a user test

Design Space : The range of alternative ways that a design solution can work

1. Which of the following is an example of Purposive sampling? -> A. Asking people who use a site's
shopping ....

2. Which of the following is NOT a way of reducing the burden for a respondent to participate in your
survey? -> D. Asking one group of respondents .........

Criteria :

+Diversity Criteria : ... you expect your users to differ

+Recruiting Criteria : .... whether someone is "in" or "out" of the target population

Questions :

Best open-ended : Can you tell how many times u used GPS

Best-scoped : What kind of problems do users face when using MS Word's spell-checking feature

Not include in a debrief interview : Demographic questions like age gender and education level

Multiple Choices :

Preparations should u make ahead of both remote moderated ....: (I, III, IV, V)

Under what circumstances for REMOTE Testing : ( II & III)


+ Participant from a variety of geographic locations are needed

+ There is a lot of Personally Identifiable Information required

Most Appropriate to conduct REMOTE Moderated testing : (I, III , IV)

+ Redirection and discussion are required

+ Finding participants local to your lab is challenging

+ You want to see and explore user's digital context

Good guidelines for using an interview protocol: (I only)

+Memorize the protocol , so that ....

At what point in a product or service's life-cycle should one conduct a user needs assessment : (I and II)

+Before ....

+Before.....

Method on would use to learn more about user's attitudes, preferences, context and needs : (I and III)

+Interview

+Behavioral analytic

Techniques that might be used in qualitative data analysis : (I and III)

+Clustering

+Finding patterns

-Measurement error : when your question somehow don't actually get to the concept you're interested
in

-Sampling error: .. is going to miss some big chunk of your population

MOST IMPORTANT consideration in picking what type of question : The type of analysis you plan on
doing
MOST TRUE statement about how people remember things : Memory fades over time , and often
doesn't capture routine actions

MOST TRUE about social exchange theory : (Pick the longest)

LEAST true about extrinsic , or material , incentives : The more money u offer , the more likely people
are participate

LEAST true about open-ended question : (Pick the longest)

MOST accurate (about survey) : Survey are good at broad description of groups ,.....

NOT a key design skill : To write a business plan for selling the technology designers created

NOT an element of typical scenario : LOCATION

NOT a way to match you UX goals to survey methods : Launch an exploratory survey to determine UX
goals

NOT a type of passive input : Picture taken by the user using the phone camera

NOT important for every survey question : Writing a question that every respondent will answer in the
same way NOT

NOT a dimension of survey models : Sampling frame

NOT a type of sampling : Sampling frame

NOT something to think about...Amazon's Mechanical Turk : Response Rates for Tuckers

NOT a reason u want to have a high response rate : If u want to conduct more complicated statically
analyses

NOT be an example of a sampling frame : A social media site , like Twitter

NOT a characteristic of sketches done for the purposes of ideation : REFINED

NOT an uncommon type of survey question : NOMINAL

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