Yelp is an application with the mission “to connect people with great local businesses”. It is a platform where users are able to locate restaurants, dentist, hair stylist, mechanics, local businesses and other services nearby. Almost 80% of the searches on Yelp are done through its mobile app with restaurants being the most reviewed business …
Spotify is a popular music-streaming service that provides its users with access to millions of songs from a multitude of creators. WIth a Spotify account, a user can save their preferred music and access it from any device that supports Spotify—including mobile phones, computers, and web browsers. This design critique focuses on Spotify’s app for iOS devices.
The World Bank is one of the foremost providers of global development data. Through its Open Data website, users can find, visualize, and download hundreds of datasets. This design critique will focus on this example page, since many users will land on a page like this without seeing the homepage (as I have in my …
Design Critique: World Bank Open Data (desktop site) Read More »
Project Brief: The goal of this project was to ensure that the users of Alexander Street Press, a video and primary source archive for educational programming, were met with the highest possible satisfactory landing page. One that would aide in sign-up statistics and let the users know what it is that Alexander Street has that …
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Project Summary Timeline My Role Goal January – May 2019 I was a UX designer, designing this product end-to-end from research to prototype To completely transform the university library’s website in order to provide help to undergraduate students at their points of need Problem Statement How Might We make it easier for undergrad …
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About the Project Overview: This project involved redesigning the information architecture and improving the user experience of Seton Hall University Libraries website. The Seton Hall University Libraries support excellence in academic and individual work, enable inquiry, foster intellectual and ethical integrity and respect for diverse points of view through user-focused services and robust collections as the intellectual …
SHU Design Story by Armon Burton of Curious Solomon Read More »
Summary This review briefly explores how quantitative and qualitative usability methods are leveraged by product managers as data-driven design to develop and deliver memorable user experiences. Quantitative versus Qualitative What is quantitative usability? According to the Nielsen Norman Group, it’s important to note the difference between quantitative and qualitative usability and what is required to …
Quantitative Usability in the Corporate World: Data-Driven Design Read More »
Capital One Financial Corporation is an American bank holding company which specializes in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and saving products. It is headquartered at McLean, Virginia. Chris invited me to spend a few hours at their New York office on 19th street. The New York office space is dedicated to business, design and technical …
In the past, measuring emotion and engagement are seem to be impossible, because the emotion is too abstract to be collected as data. Communication has become a regular way to collect users’ data, even though it can not be 100% correct. Without solid data, researchers can’t stay objective to develop a conclusion of the issue. …
Introduction We love to measure things. It is our way to understand how good or bad something is. Numbers help to evaluate the situation in a quick and easy manner. In this post, I summarized the responses to my six questions related to quantitative usability testing focusing on the real world methods and cases …
Quantitative Usability Testing in IBM Watson Health Read More »