interaction design
Interaction design quiz
Test your grip on interaction design in UX. Read each definition and name the term; this quiz leads with the interaction design entries and rounds out with a few from across the glossary. Every question comes from the live entries, so it grows as the glossary does.
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Revise the interaction design terms first
The interaction design entries in the glossary, in brief. Open any one for the interactive demo behind it.
- Progressive disclosure
- Show people just what they need right now, and tuck the rest behind a clear next step. It keeps the first view simple without hiding anything for good.
- Fitts's law
- The time to hit a target grows as the target gets smaller and as it sits further away. Big, close things are fast; small, distant things are slow.
- Affordance
- An affordance is the visual hint that tells you what you can do with something - a raised button says "press me", underlined blue text says "click me". Strong cues make actions obvious; missing or false ones leave people guessing.
- Feedback
- Feedback is the interface answering back: a clear sign of what just happened and what to do next. Act without it and people are left guessing whether anything worked at all.
- Microcopy
- The small words inside an interface - button labels, hints, placeholders, error messages - that quietly guide, reassure and give it a voice. Tiny by word count, decisive by impact.