Stellarium is a mobile planetarium app that allows users to explore the night sky in real time. By pointing their device upward, they can identify stars, planets, and constellations through a realistic visualization. The experience feels immersive and inspiring, but certain design choices introduce challenges around discoverability and ease of use, particularly for beginners. Onboarding […]
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Flo is a menstrual cycle–tracking app that helps users monitor periods, ovulation, or pregnancy. It also offers resources on menstruation, pregnancy, mental-health and sexual wellness, along with symptom logging. This critique reviews Flo through concepts from Design of Everyday Things and How Artifacts Afford, focusing on the experience of a user tracking their period. Onboarding
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About Daak is a personal finance tracking app designed to help users log daily expenses, categorize spending, and visualize patterns over time. It also offers features like exporting data to spreadsheets and adding bank account details, though some of these functions feel incomplete. At its core, Daak aims to make budgeting simple, structured, and enjoyable
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Fable has a solid concept but its design slips in places. In this critique, I nitpick small issues – like hidden features, vague labels, and weak feedback in the reading flow. The club flow shows it can be done well; the real task is carrying that same clarity across the app.
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Chewy is an e-commerce company that offers businesses such as pet food retail, pet supply and accessories retail, medicines and health products, and other pet-related products. From Chewy, users could document their pets’ information and get the needed accessories. Its mobile app is aiming to offer users a convenient shopping experience Imperfect Shopping Details Items
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is an agency of the United States Department of Labor. Its website is home to labor and economic data and data tools available for public use. This article serves to critique the general accessibility and usability of the BLS Popular Series Data Retrieval Tool. Accessing Data Tools from the
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Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket (TCGP) is a free-to-play trading card mobile game. Unlike Pokemon’s previous game catering to experienced players, TCGP offers an approachable casual experience. The game features not only simplified and faster card battles, but also card collecting, where players can share and trade their cards with their friends and the community.
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Amazon Kindle is an app that allows readers access to a variety of digital content, including options such as books, magazines, and even newspapers. With syncing across devices, allowing users to pick up where they just were on any device as long as the account remains the same. However, the home page has sections that can be improved upon in order to enhance the user experience.
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A Frustrating First Impression:Why Stomper’s Design is Driving Users Away ? At its core, Stomper has an exciting and creative premise. It transforms walking, an otherwise mundane activity, into something playful and interactive. But the frustrating registration process, unclear interface, and rigid game mechanics create unnecessary friction that discourages users before they can even enjoy
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Timeleft is a digital platform where users can book dinners with strangers matched through a personality algorithm. The premise is fascinating: every Wednesday, in cities around the world, curated groups gather over dinner, transforming the awkwardness of first meetings into something potentially meaningful. As someone who moved to New York City from India, I know
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