Cumulative Quiz :User Experience: Research & Prototyping (Interaction Design Specialization) Answers 2026

uestion 1

Ways to provide a compelling, meaningful experience on a healthy recipe website (Select all that apply)

✅ Highlight recipes based on dietary restrictions
❌ Require password authentication every minute
✅ Remember your prior visits
✅ Recommend recipes based on what other people have tagged

Question 2

Understanding people’s needs, goals, values, sequences, and systems leads to better experiences.

✅ True
❌ False

Question 3

When conducting research, it is important to (Select all that apply)

❌ Observe a single activity in isolation
✅ Observe the sequence of tasks people do
✅ Observe other systems they interact with
✅ Prepare a research plan with specific questions

Question 4

Least likely stakeholder for a retirement planning website:

❌ Elderly adults
❌ Accountants
✅ Lifeguards
❌ Adult children

Question 5

Which is NOT a workaround? (Select all that apply)

❌ Affixing a clip to a water bottle for a backpack
❌ Adding a hook under a table to hold a cane
✅ Gluing a chair leg back when it breaks
❌ Taping a reminder note to a phone

Explanation:
A workaround adapts a system; repairing a broken chair is not a workaround.

Question 6

In UX, experiences are defined as:

❌ Observations vs interviews
✅ The difference between expectations and performance
❌ Belief vs truth
❌ Before vs after

Question 7

During an interview, you want to (Select all that apply)

❌ Tell the person everything you know
❌ Show up late
✅ Establish trust with the interviewee
❌ Avoid asking permission to record

Question 8

Statement that generates the greatest breadth of solutions:

❌ Need bifocal glasses
✅ Need a way to read when they misplace their glasses
❌ Need a magnifying glass
❌ Need drugstore glasses

Question 9

Prototyping is making ideas tangible.

✅ True
❌ False

Question 10

Typical obstacles to idea generation (Select all that apply)

✅ Fixation
❌ Dishonesty
✅ Judgment
❌ Humor

Question 11

Generating ideas with the community is useful when you (Select all that apply)

❌ Need to run an errand
❌ Need to get out of the office
✅ Need local expertise
✅ Need buy-in for solutions

Question 12

Why developing many prototypes is useful (Select all that apply)

✅ People are more comfortable critiquing multiple ideas
❌ You must build 88 ideas to reach the only good one
✅ Final solutions often blend ideas from different prototypes
❌ Showing off creativity

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