Recently, I talked to Matthew, a Lead UX Designer at Wikimedia who works on the Structured Data team. Wikimedia, or what Matthew and his colleagues call “the Foundation,” is the non-profit organization that owns the internet domain names of many movement projects and host sites like Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
Venmo is a digital wallet app that can be used to conduct personal or business-related payments. It’s a service that has gained popularity in the past few years, and having been around for a while, it’s rolled out some new features. The mobile app has undergone a recent redesign, so I’d like to examine the …
YogaGlo, or Glo, is an online subscription service offering yoga, meditation, and Pilates classes and programs that match a user’s “level and interests.” With over 4,000 classes available on their platform, YogaGlo supports user wayfinding to a desired course through establishing and following: Organization systems Labeling systems Navigation systems Searching systems For the purpose of …
National Grid is one of the world’s largest investor-owned energy companies; they are committed to delivering electricity and gas safely, reliably, and efficiently to all their customers in the communities they serve. Their website states that they work closely with customers, partners, and communities to develop solutions to the problem we might face. However, their …
Headspace is an app for mindfulness and meditation. Its recent growth in content and users is accompanied by modifications to the app’s design and features. This critique intends to highlight positive and negative attributes of Headspace’s digital interface, using concepts laid out in The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman. Search Function Every primary …
Okta is a secure enterprise-level, identity management service that connects a person with any application on any of their devices. Built for the cloud and compatible with a number of apps, it enables a single sign-on (SSO) login experience for its users while ensuring information is secure for the user’s organization. Sign In A user can …
The United States-based Bookshop is an ecommerce intended to help independent bookstores assert themselves online and reinforce their market share in the book industry, which has long been under Amazon’s influence.
Duolingo is an application that gives users the opportunity to learn over 30 different languages on their electronic devices. The app provides short courses meant to be taken daily that users can access for free. In this post I be using concepts from Don Norman’s ‘The Design of Everyday Things’ to critique the design of …
Google Photos is an online photo storage and sharing website, used by many as an easy way to house one’s photos. It gives users free storage for up to 16 megapixels of photos and videos. It was released in 2015 and currently has over 1 billion users. Affordance – Exiting out of an individual photo …
Car and Driver is an American automotive enthusiast magazine. Its total circulation is 1.23 million. It is owned by Hearst Magazines, who purchased prior owner Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. in 2011. It was founded as Sports Cars Illustrated. Originally headquartered in New York City, the magazine has been based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for many …