UX Trivia Quiz #10 by Tom Tullis

This control panel was involved in a UX failure in 1979 that could have been far worse than it was. Where was this?

Three Mile Island Power Plant

Kennedy Space Center

Control Tower at JFK Airport

Deepwater Horizon Offshore Oil Rig

This book, The Paradox of Choice, was one of the seminal works in the field of behavioral economics. It has important lessons for UX designers to understand about how humans make decisions. Who wrote it?

Barry Schwartz

Malcolm Gladwell

Daniel Kahneman

Dan Ariely

This person was a pioneering designer, researcher, and educator. She was the longtime art director of the MIT Press, the founder of MIT's Visible Language Workshop, and the first female professor at the MIT Media Lab. Who was she?

Muriel Cooper

Jacqueline Casey

Deborah Sussman

Elaine Lustig Cohen

The primary colors of additive color mixing (by light) are red, green, and blue. What are the primary colors of subtractive color mixing (by pigments)?

Cyan, magenta, and yellow

Red, green, and blue

Orange, blue, and white

Black and white

This is the amazingly intuitive user interface for the most popular word-processing program in the early 1980s. It was originally written for the CP/M operating system but was later ported to MS-DOS. What was its name?

WordStar

Microsoft Word

MultiMate

DisplayWrite

Widely recognized as the first comprehensive set of guidelines for user interface software design, this book (496 pages!) was published by Mitre Corporation in 1986. Who wrote it?

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Sidney Smith & Jane Mosier

Ben Shneiderman

Stephen Engel & Richard Granda

James Martin

In usability testing, what does RTA stand for?

Retrospective Think-Aloud

Regression Time Analysis

Right Time Answer

Really Tricky Analysis

What does the "<ul>" tag in HTML do?

Defines an unordered (bulleted) list

Begins underlining

Defines uniform leading (vertical spacing)

There is no such tag in HTML

The Georgia typeface was designed in 1993 by Matthew Carter. It was intended to be a serif font that would work well printed small or on low-resolution screens. What was the inspiration for its name?

A tabloid headline "Alien heads found in Georgia"

The country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia

Matthew Carter's home state

The University of Georgia

What French-born American industrial designer whose career spanned seven decades was responsible for all of these designs?

Raymond Loewy

Henry Dreyfuss

Charles Eames

Cipe Pineles

UX Trivia Quiz #10 by Tom Tullis

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