App Dev Worksheet: Users and Needs
Developer's tip (User first): Users are the people the app is for; there are often several groups (students, teachers, parents). A need is the user’s problem; a feature is how the app solves it. Ask and watch real users before you build.
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- 1.👥 A school app has 40 students, 185 teachers and 85 parents as users. How many users does it have in all?
- 2.🎯 A short made-up profile of a typical user is called a ___. (a) password (b) protocol (c) pixel (d) persona
- 3.👥 A cricket club app has 75 players, 80 coaches and 125 fans as users. How many more fans than coaches are there?
- 4.Which of these is a feature? (a) “What should I cook?” (b) “I forget my homework” (c) “I keep missing the bus” (d) a share button
- 5.🎯 Which app would help this user most: a reader who finds small print hard? (a) a water reminder (b) a big-text reader (c) a bus tracker (d) a recipe finder
- 6.🎯 Is this a user need or a feature: “I keep missing the bus”? (a) a feature (b) a user need
- 7.🎯 Is this a user need or a feature: a reminder alarm? (a) a user need (b) a feature
- 8.👥 A library app has 275 readers, 170 librarians and 75 volunteers as users. Which user group is the biggest? (a) readers (b) volunteers (c) librarians
- 9.🎯 Which app would help this user most: a parent waiting at the bus stop? (a) a pocket-money tracker (b) a water reminder (c) a bus tracker (d) a recipe finder
- 10.🎯 What is the best first step to learn what users need? (a) ask and watch users (b) pick the colours (c) write the code (d) guess on your own
- 11.Which of these is a user need? (a) a share button (b) a search bar (c) “Small text is hard” (d) a reminder alarm
- 12.👥 A cricket club app has 265 players, 30 coaches and 75 fans as users. Which user group is the biggest? (a) fans (b) coaches (c) players
- 13.🎯 Which app would help this user most: a teen whose money runs out by Friday? (a) a water reminder (b) a big-text reader (c) a pocket-money tracker (d) a homework planner
- 14.👥 A library app has 90 readers, 185 librarians and 115 volunteers as users. How many more librarians than volunteers are there?
- 15.🎯 Is this a user need or a feature: a dark mode switch? (a) a user need (b) a feature
- 16.Which of these is a user need? (a) a share button (b) a dark mode switch (c) a search bar (d) “I keep missing the bus”
- 17.👥 A clinic app has 215 patients, 165 doctors and 145 nurses as users. Which user group is the biggest? (a) patients (b) doctors (c) nurses
- 18.🎯 Which app would help this user most: a pupil juggling five projects? (a) a bus tracker (b) a pocket-money tracker (c) a homework planner (d) a recipe finder
- 19.👥 A clinic app has 225 patients, 220 doctors and 175 nurses as users. Which user group is the biggest? (a) doctors (b) nurses (c) patients
- 20.👥 A clinic app has 65 patients, 25 doctors and 260 nurses as users. Which user group is the biggest? (a) doctors (b) patients (c) nurses
- 21.Which of these is a user need? (a) a share button (b) a search bar (c) a reminder alarm (d) “I forget my homework”
- 22.👥 A school app has 75 students, 275 teachers and 165 parents as users. How many users does it have in all?
- 23.👥 A library app has 230 readers, 170 librarians and 300 volunteers as users. Which user group is the biggest? (a) librarians (b) volunteers (c) readers
- 24.🎯 Is this a user need or a feature: “What should I cook?”? (a) a feature (b) a user need
- 25.🎯 Who are the users of an app? (a) the people who use it (b) only the coders (c) the app icons (d) only the testers
- 26.True or false: a recipe finder is the best fit for a cook with no idea for dinner. (a) True (b) False
- 27.True or false: a homework planner is the best fit for a pupil juggling five projects. (a) True (b) False
- 28.👥 A school app has 300 students, 25 teachers and 35 parents as users. Which user group is the biggest? (a) students (b) parents (c) teachers
- 29.👥 A library app has 200 readers, 20 librarians and 205 volunteers as users. Which user group is the biggest? (a) readers (b) volunteers (c) librarians
- 30.Which of these is a feature? (a) “Small text is hard” (b) “I forget my homework” (c) a reminder alarm (d) “I keep missing the bus”
- 31.🎯 Why learn about users before you build? (a) to make it longer (b) to build what they need (c) to slow it down (d) to pick a logo
- 32.Which of these is a user need? (a) “What should I cook?” (b) a reminder alarm (c) a search bar (d) a share button
- 33.👥 A cricket club app has 245 players, 140 coaches and 190 fans as users. How many more players than fans are there?
- 34.👥 A library app has 20 readers, 210 librarians and 95 volunteers as users. How many more volunteers than readers are there?
- 35.👥 A school app has 55 students, 60 teachers and 255 parents as users. How many users does it have in all?
- 36.🎯 Is this a user need or a feature: a search bar? (a) a feature (b) a user need
- 37.🎯 Is this a user need or a feature: “I forget my homework”? (a) a feature (b) a user need
- 38.True or false: a water reminder is the best fit for a runner who forgets to sip water. (a) False (b) True
- 39.🎯 Is this a user need or a feature: a share button? (a) a feature (b) a user need
- 40.🎯 What is a user need? (a) a problem a user has (b) a colour theme (c) a phone setting (d) a type of button
Answer key
- 310
- persona
- 45
- a share button
- a big-text reader
- a user need
- a feature
- readers
- a bus tracker
- ask and watch users
- “Small text is hard”
- players
- a pocket-money tracker
- 70
- a feature
- “I keep missing the bus”
- patients
- a homework planner
- patients
- nurses
- “I forget my homework”
- 515
- volunteers
- a user need
- the people who use it
- True
- True
- students
- volunteers
- a reminder alarm
- to build what they need
- “What should I cook?”
- 55
- 75
- 370
- a feature
- a user need
- True
- a feature
- a problem a user has
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