WARM-UP VIDEO FOR FREQUENTLY USED NOUNS

Instructions.  Fill the gaps with one of the following words: time(s)|person(s)|way(s)|day(s)|thing(s)

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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.

the little intricate details about how they interact with your product. And user experience and user research is a fantastic (1) ………….. to understand how our users use our products. And their skills are how to build what is a complex system into a simple user experience. NOAH LEVIN: So we spent a lot of (2) ………….. iterating on different designs, because we really needed to start building it and changing it over (3) ………….. and testing it to know that it was good. When you hit a link, a lot of (4) ………….. , you want to go back very quickly, back and forth to explore these results. So I came up with this tabbed UI where once you click a say, maybe that's not what I want and instantly swipe it away or tap it away and look at other results. When you watch a video of a (5) ………….. in Korea or in Japan or anywhere, and they're holding it, and they're just talking about, oh, look, and it does this. And they're tapping it. And they're interacting with it. They're swiping (6) ………….. that I had thought about and sketched on a white board. The fact that this sketch reached across the globe is incredibly eye opening, and it really drives you every (7) ………….. to keep doing what you're doing. Amit Singhal, the guy who really invented a lot of the (8) ………….. that Search works today, the fact that he would be willing and excited to learn about design really made me excited to come to work, to know that the people responsible for a lot of the biggest decisions we make care about these (9) ………….. . ALAN EUSTACE: It's never too late to learn. Often, in the case of an executive, what you need to do a lot of deep UX work there. So in thinking about where Google can be really helpful, where's the right (10) ………….. for us to come in and surprise and delight you. If you have good ideas, you can come work here and build those (11) ………….. .

Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.

the little intricate details about how they interact with your product. And user experience and user research is a fantastic (1) (way) to understand how our users use our products. And their skills are how to build what is a complex system into a simple user experience. NOAH LEVIN: So we spent a lot of (2) (time) iterating on different designs, because we really needed to start building it and changing it over (3) (time) and testing it to know that it was good. When you hit a link, a lot of (4) (times) , you want to go back very quickly, back and forth to explore these results. So I came up with this tabbed UI where once you click a say, maybe that's not what I want and instantly swipe it away or tap it away and look at other results. When you watch a video of a (5) (person) in Korea or in Japan or anywhere, and they're holding it, and they're just talking about, oh, look, and it does this. And they're tapping it. And they're interacting with it. They're swiping (6) (things) that I had thought about and sketched on a white board. The fact that this sketch reached across the globe is incredibly eye opening, and it really drives you every (7) (day) to keep doing what you're doing. Amit Singhal, the guy who really invented a lot of the (8) (way) that Search works today, the fact that he would be willing and excited to learn about design really made me excited to come to work, to know that the people responsible for a lot of the biggest decisions we make care about these (9) (things) . ALAN EUSTACE: It's never too late to learn. Often, in the case of an executive, what you need to do a lot of deep UX work there. So in thinking about where Google can be really helpful, where's the right (10) (time) for us to come in and surprise and delight you. If you have good ideas, you can come work here and build those (11) (things) .

Sources: 

Channel: Life at Google. Meet Noah, Interaction Designer for Google Search on iOS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fpggknHC2c

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