Cumulative Quiz :Information Design (Interaction Design Specialization) Answers 2026

Question 1

When would a wireframe be most helpful? (Choose 2)

❌ Fixing the shopping bag icon
✅ Designing an interface layout that shows current movies on the first screen
✅ Making more effective use of the screen real estate
❌ Finalizing fonts and colors

Explanation:
Wireframes are best for layout, structure, and spatial hierarchy, not visual polish like icons, fonts, or colors.

Question 2

A responsive website…

❌ Uses gestures
✅ Presents a different layout customized to different screen sizes and form factors
❌ Updates in-page content without reloading
❌ Understands you, man

Question 3

When designing for multiple form factors, you should:

❌ Start with mobile first (always)
❌ Start with desktop first
❌ Start with tablet first
✅ Think about what most people will use; if two form factors are common, design for both in parallel

Question 4

Challenges of ubiquitous computing (Select all that apply)

✅ Devices without explicit interfaces create a large gulf of execution
❌ Privacy only matters at the end of design
✅ Recognition-based interfaces can be ambiguous and need ways to resolve ambiguity
✅ Very brief interactions make good defaults and minimal setup critical

Question 5

Presenting hierarchical information — which is true?

✅ An overview-plus-detail menu presents hierarchy without overwhelming users
❌ Hamburger menus preserve information scent

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