Portfolio School U/UX Design Assessment

Portfolio School UI/UX Design Assessment

Path Unbound Portfolio School Enrollment Assessment - UI/UX Design Track

Tell us who you are
Show us your color chops
Show us your typography knowledge
Show us your layout skills
Show us how well you know digital design
Show us how you understand of UX
Show us your client communication skills

Hi, and welcome! This assessment shows us your level of design knowledge so we can point you to the right program. Most of the questions show you a real design and ask you to choose the best answer. You can save your progress and pick it up later.

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You can take the assessment once per email address, and you will see your result and your next steps as soon as you submit. If you have any questions, please reach out to us on our contact page.

Getting to Know You First Before We Begin

First Name

Last Name

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Email Confirmation

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Phone/Mobile

What country do you live in?

Which course do you want to qualify for?

What design programs are you proficient in? List your top 5 programs.

We need this information to determine if your technical level meets the requirements of our programs.

Do you already have previous design work we can check out? (It's okay if you don't - please skip)

You can either put in your website if you have one or include a PUBLIC link to a file sharing service where you store your design work.

First, Let's See How You Understand Color Theories

What are complementary colors?

Colors that harmonize together

Colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel

Colors that sit opposite of each other on a color wheel

Colors that are variations of each other

What does HSB stand for?

Hue, Saturation and Brightness

Hue, Saturation and Black

Hue, Shadow and Brightness

Halo, Saturation and Brightness

What is the advantage of using Pantone colors for printing?

The quality is higher.

Pantone colors use proprietary technology to ensure exact matching of colors no matter the printing technology.

It is more affordable than other inks.

Take a look at a screenshot of this website, then proceed to answer the question next.

What is the biggest color problem in this design?

The pink background is too bright and playful for a juice brand, so it should be a darker, more serious color.

The photo on the right uses cool blue and gray tones that clash with the warm pink around it.

The white headline and paragraph text sit on light pink, so the contrast is too low to read them easily.

The Shop Now button should be pink so it matches the rest of the banner.

Next, Let's See How You Understand Typography

What are sans serif fonts?

Fonts without the small strokes (serifs) at the ends of the letters

Fonts that are modern

Fonts that are best for body text

Fonts with many weights available

What is a widow in typography?

A punctuation standing alone in a paragraph

A spelling mistake

A hyphenated word

A lone-standing word at the end of a paragraph

What is leading?

The overall spacing between letters in a word

The spacing between the baselines of two lines of text

The spacing between the beginning of a sentence to the end of the sentence.

The spacing between the end of a sentence to the beginning of the next sentence.

Take a look at this poster design, then proceed to answer the question next.

What is the main typography problem in this poster?

The poster uses a sans serif typeface, and sans serif type is hard to read when it is printed.

DON'T DIE is the loudest text and the letters of DRIVE are scattered across sizes, so the real message is hard to read.

The headline letters are so large that they leave too little space for the road sign, so the illustration at the bottom feels cramped.

The small credit text at the bottom of the poster is not centered under the headline.

Next, Let's See Your Understanding of Layouts

Take a look at this magazine layout design, then proceed to answer the question next.

Which change would improve this magazine spread the most?

Add a second photo of the singer on the left page so the two pages feel more balanced.

Set the headline quote in a flowing script typeface so the interview feels more personal, romantic and in line with the singer's style.

Make the vertical name on the right page larger and brighter so it becomes the focal point.

Move the interview text off the busy photo onto a clean area and make the small red questions larger.

Take a look at a screenshot of this website, then proceed to answer the question next.

What is the biggest layout problem on this homepage?

The headline box and button cover the children's faces, and the loud cyan header competes with them, so nothing leads the eye.

The navigation only has three links, so visitors cannot find enough pages from the homepage and leave before they see the products.

The phone number in the header takes attention away from the logo and should be removed.

The photo should show the juice bottles so visitors see the product first.

Take a look at a screenshot of this website, then proceed to answer the question next.

What is the biggest problem with this design?

The website uses so many photos that the page feels cluttered and slow to load.

Green is the wrong color for a training company, and it makes the brand look more like a gardening business than a place to learn new skills.

The logo, the three green boxes and the banner all carry similar weight, so there is no clear visual hierarchy.

The navigation bar should move to the left side of the page.

Now Let's See How Well You Understand Digital Design

Take a look at a screenshot of this website, then proceed to answer the question next.

What is the main problem for the buttons in this website design?

They are too long

They are hard to read

They have no visual hierarchy and can be confusing to users

They have bad typography

Take a look at a screenshot of this website, then proceed to answer the question next.

How should this top navigation work on a phone?

Shrink every item in the bar, including the newsletter link and the Spotlight story, so the whole bar still fits on one line on a small screen.

Keep the logo, menu icon, search icon and a small Subscribe button in one slim bar, and move everything else into the menu.

Stack every item in its own full-width row above the main story so that nothing is hidden from the reader.

Hide the TIME logo on phones so all the links fit in the bar.

Take a look at a screenshot of this form design, then proceed to answer the question next.

Which change would improve the accessibility of this form the most?

Make the gradient on the top button brighter and more saturated so it stands out more on the screen.

Remove the Step 1, Step 2 and Step 3 labels so the screen feels simpler and less crowded.

Put the labels inside the fields as placeholder text and remove the labels above them, which saves space and makes the form look cleaner.

Raise the contrast and size of the text, especially the pale button label, and show the password rule before typing starts.

Almost There - Show Us What You Know About UX Design

Read the following brief and look at the current product page, then choose the redesign approach that solves the client's problem best.

Client: Eufy

Requirements: Eufy is a home electronics company that focuses on cleaning, security, baby and pet electronic products. The brand is established with its own branding, website and visual design.However, through user research, the company discovered that individual product pages on the website is loaded with a lot of information which overwhelmed customers at times and as a result, delayed purchase decisions.In addition, some product variation selections are not clearly explained which brought further confusions to customers. Some customers have complained that the numerical and technical naming convention of product variations is not easy to understand.The client wants a designer to propose a redesign in the user experience of their individual product page (listed in the above URL) to 1) break down information in an easier to understand manner as well as help new customers understand how to choose different variations of products based on their needs.

Based on this brief, which redesign approach would solve the client's problem best?

Keep all of the information on the page and make the text smaller so more of it fits on one screen.

Open with a short summary of who the product is for, explain each version in plain words in a simple comparison, and move the full specs lower.

Remove the technical specs and model numbers from the page entirely so customers are not confused by them.

Add a pop-up that asks every visitor to contact sales before they choose a version, so a person can walk each customer through the options one by one.

Last, Show Us Your Client Communication & Management Skills

Finally, you made it! This is the last question.

A client sends you a lot of text and asks you to fit all of it into your design. What would you do first?

I ask the client to cut down the text before I start designing, because visitors rarely read long text and it always makes a design look worse.

I find creative ways to present all of the information so the design doesn't look so long.

I meet with the client to agree on the main goal and what content must stay, then suggest copy edits and explore ways to present it.

I put all of the text into the design as it is, because the client knows their content best.

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Portfolio School UI/UX Design Assessment

Getting to Know You First Before We Begin

First, Let's See How You Understand Color Theories

Next, Let's See How You Understand Typography

Next, Let's See Your Understanding of Layouts

Now Let's See How Well You Understand Digital Design

Almost There - Show Us What You Know About UX Design

Last, Show Us Your Client Communication & Management Skills

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Start Here: Step 1

Visual Design Foundation

Specialization

Art Direction

Specialization

Branding

Coming Soon

AI Product Design

Portfolio School UI/UX Design Assessment

Getting to Know You First Before We Begin

First, Let's See How You Understand Color Theories

Next, Let's See How You Understand Typography

Next, Let's See Your Understanding of Layouts

Now Let's See How Well You Understand Digital Design

Almost There - Show Us What You Know About UX Design

Last, Show Us Your Client Communication & Management Skills

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