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What’s going on with IXD@Pratt? Posts in this category cover news, announcements, and other important information about the IXD program at Pratt.

Enhancing KnowUnity’s User Onboarding Experience: A UX/UI Research Case Study

Overview Slide Deck My Role: User Researcher; User Experience Team Members: Jimin Hong; Gatha Bakta; Rong Cheng; Hugo He Tools: Figma, Google Drive, Duration: Late October to Early December The Client: KnowUnity Who are they? Knowunity is Europe’s fastest growing educational tech app with now 9 million users across Europe and is now being implemented …

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An image depicting cowboys in historic Montana

Helping increase the online reach for a state heritage organization

The Montana Historical Society is the State of Montana’s primary cultural heritage resource for historical archives and permanent state agency records. As MHS continues their efforts to bring more attention toward its many historical resources, our research group conducted an analysis of their website’s performance metrics, as well as an audit of its SEO performance. …

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Clay Design System

Clay Design System Quick Summary My Role: Design Manager, Product Designer and UX Researcher The Team: Sneh Ganjoo, Marc Molta, Becky Su Outcome: Building a Design System for Formbricks with a UI Kit and detailed documentation Figma UI Kit Clay Documentation The origins of a Design System Formbricks is a product aimed at helping companies …

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Analyzing the Accessibility of Pinterest

Authors: Cassandra Cyphers, Shivani Kolte, Eleanor Cunningham-Rothwell Pinterest has both an ethical responsibility and business interest in ensuring its platform is accessible to all users, with approximately 1 in 4 U.S. adults experiencing a disability at some point in their lives. The platform itself does meet several accessibility principles set out in the Web Content …

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Design Critique: Google Earth

About Google Earth Google Earth is to be an immersive experience for users to gauge and understand different local and abroad locations. Developed in 2015, its primary function is for web imagery interaction applications for commercial and personal use. It’s important to consider the effects when engaging with this  tool. Before analyzing Google Earth I …

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Design critique: FigJam (website)

FigJam is an online collaborative tool which can be used for anything from brainstorming to build including diagramming, strategy and planning. It empowers teams to express their ideas visually and make things together in real-time. FigJam has fun elements like adding stickers, dot voting, leaving voice messages, etc that makes collaboration more engaging and personalized.  …

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