What makes some designs good and others bad? Why do some designs work while others don’t? Posts in this category offer thoughtful design critiques of modern digital interfaces, with commentary inspired by Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things.”
Discord is a communication service which allows users to chat, call, and share files and other media in one hub on the web or their desktop and mobile apps. Users can create or join existing servers, to which they can invite friends and open topic-specific chat threads as well as voice and/or video rooms to …
Crunchyroll is an anime focused streaming service that allows users to watch anime TV shows, read manga, and discover mobile anime-themed games. It has a vast library of animes to pick and choose from so that one will never be bored. Crunchyroll has a free version (where you have in-video ads), or the user can …
By Sara Almai Randonautica is a mobile phone application intended to be used as an aid for exploration. The application generates a random or pseudorandom set of coordinates, called a “point”, for the user, called a “randonaut”, to venture to. The point is generated based on a descriptor selected by the user on the homepage. …
Uber Eats is an online Food Ordering and Delivery Platform, Launched by Uber in 2014. Its platform enables users to browse menus, reviews and ratings, order, and pay for food from participating restaurants using an application on the iOS or Android platforms, or through a web browser. Applying Don Norman’s design principles from his publication …
Adobe Fresco is a digital drawing application developed by Adobe and released in November 2019. The app was created to provide a more ‘painterly’ experience for art-making on iPads, and to compete with similar apps such as Procreate. Eager to try out Adobe’s latest creation, I downloaded the app on its initial release date. Fresco …
Hulu is an on-demand video streaming platform that has existed for more than a decade. It’s considered one of the best and largest streaming platforms currently in the United States, with more than 40 million subscribers. Viewers can stream an array of different on-demand movies and shows.
Founded in 2008, Airbnb is an online marketplace that enables both travelers to discover places to stay and hosts to list their space for extra money. Aiming to create a world where people belong anywhere, Airbnb now covers more than 100,000 cities and 220 countries worldwide. Log in or Sign Up Unlike most apps where …
Among all of the online education website, I’ve tried several and even they’re focus on different trajectory, the one that hooks me and motivate me to complete is Coursera which delivering a very “flow” experience. User-centered design employs empathy and in turn increases satisfaction of the end-users. This design critique will be using Norman theories from “The Design of Everyday Things” to analyze the good and bad designs Coursera utilizes.
Google Maps is a map-based service that helps users to navigate to a destination and discover places on the map. Since Google Maps is one of the most broadly used apps in the world and have many features, this article addresses the usability issues of three main features of Google Maps (Landing Page, Searching & …
Facebook Marketplace is a section on the Facebook app whose mission is to provide users a platform to arrange to buy, sell and trade items with other people in their area. The transactions and interactions are purely user-to-user. Facebook isn’t responsible for facilitating or managing transactions. This blog post will focus on two modes of …