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.”
Abstract Venmo is a mobile payment service owned by Paypal that allows users to transfer funds to others via their mobile phone app. Its primary function allows users to send or accept payments from others or even some businesses that use their platform. It has a user friendly history system that allows its users to …
Joe & The Juice is a juice bar/coffee shop chain that has over 300 locations in the world. The iOS App was first released in 2019 and is now available in 13 operating countries. With its App, customers are able to make orders, earn points and receive benefits.
A “Seamless” of sorts for healthcare, Carbon Health defines itself as a “modern, tech-enabled healthcare provider designed from the ground up to put patient-care first” (Carbon Health website). The company’s B2B2C (Business-to-Business-to-Consumer) business model works by offering technology solution to clinics around the U.S. and ultimately to consumers (patients) to help “deliver a uniquely seamless …
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CamScanner is an app that allows the camera feature of smartphones and tablets to be used as mobile scanners. It allows users to ‘scan’ documents by capturing the photo using the device’s camera and share the photo in either a JPEG or PDF format
Leke Fitness is a chain gym brand in China. Its business includes gym operation and professional trainer service. I started using their service last summer and the overall experience is good. To experience their whole services, the user has to be either a member of a gym, or the user can book a trainer service and use the gym for free with limited-time access. Many different types of human-computer interactions occur in the process but I will focus on their mobile application.
Just how well are the tools we use to communicate with our fellow colleagues? In this critique, I explore the Microsoft Teams text-chat system that most businesses rely on to replace the face-to-face communication.
In this critique, I will evaluate 2 functions that Microsoft Teams affords – message reaction, and searching the message archive.
Pratt.edu is the official website for Pratt institute through which all of the information necessary for students can be accessible. Processes such as registration, accessing bills, accessing MyPratt, OnePratt, and etc. is available through this portal which makes it a vital element through every student’s collegiate career at Pratt. Now in order to assess this …
Bilibili is an original video plus animation platform(it includes app and website) with its identical feature called bullet comments(flying comment on the screen sent by the viewers), forming community culture and topics as the viewer interacts with the platform. It contains a wide variety of videos and categorizes as many sections, such as education, living, finance, etc.
Instagram is a social-networking platform where you connect communities with digital contents. With years of iteration, it has advanced many features to cater different user groups and evolved into a marketing and merchandising channel. This design critique will discuss v 172. iOS app version in Asia Pacific as some features may not be available in different …
GoodNotes is a popular note-taking app on iPad that can make handwriting notes searchable and easy to be archived. It is also useful for taking notes or making marks on PDF files, images, and more. It can also automatically sync the files through iCloud to all devices. This critique will focus on the App on …