Design Critique: Facebook (iOS app)

Facebook is popular and one of the largest global social networking platform. With Facebook accounts, users can communicate with others, sharing multimedia messages, and having Second-hand transactions. This blog post will focus on three features of Facebook—the navigations, the timeline, and the Marketplace. Facebook Navigations After logging in, users can automatically see their Navigation Bar is at …

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Assistive Technology: Google Lookout (Android App)

Google lookout is an Android App designed for people who are visually impaired to easily identify their surroundings and get things done faster and more easily. This App uses AI to identify objects through the camera of a user’s phone. Google states that people who are visually impaired also prefer mastering their lives. This product …

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Design Critique – Snapseed(iOS application)

Snapseed is a photo-editing app for android and iOS users. It is a perfect application for every novice and professional photographer/editor as it provides various detailed and powerful tools. Initial screen As the users open the Snapseed, the application always greets them with this screen(figure 1). It starts simple for users, as here they are …

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Design critique with Jesse James Garret’s 5 elements: Pratt Institute Libraries

Back Story As a first time user, I was launched to the Pratt Institute Library unwittingly, via a copy and paste link from a course syllabus. With no prior introduction to this website, I thought to put it to the test against Jesse James Garret’s five elements from his book, The Elements of User Experience, …

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Weekly Critic on 500px.com

To begin with: An Introduction on 500px.com 500px.com is a website for both professional and amateur photographers to present, critique, sell, and purchase photographs or their service. Thus, because of the commodity here are high-quality photos and the selling process requires advanced knowledge on licensing, the website may target more experienced audiences. As a professional …

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Design Critique: Jesse James Garret’s 5 Elements in: kinnarps.com

What does Kinnarps do? Kinnarps is a Swedish product company that owns several brands(Kinnarps, drabert, MARTINSTOLL, etc.). Their core products are office products, education products and healthcare products. In their website, you can find all their products, each product details as well as how to purchase it through third-party dealer. They have a great organization …

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Weekly Crit: Peloton

In the “Elements of User Experience”, Jesse James Garrett breaks down the user experience process into five elements or planes: strategy, scope, structure, skeleton, and surface. Today I will be critiquing Peloton’s website with these five elements in mind. Strategy: product objectives & user needs As Jesse mentions, this is the most abstract element. I …

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