A Step Towards Making Beauty More Inclusive?

Estée Lauder’s Voice-Enabled Makeup Assistant (VMA) app is a tool designed to make beauty more accessible to the visually impaired population. The app utilizes AI to provide voice guidance so that users can get real-time feedback on their makeup application. This blog post examines its accessibility features through disability models, highlighting its strengths, limitations, and potential for a more inclusive beauty industry.

AllTrails is a widely used app for discovering, tracking, and reviewing hiking trails. It provides an interactive way for users to find trails based on location, attributes, and user-generated reviews. For this critique, we will be evaluating how AllTrails accomplishes the main use cases of the app: finding and filtering trails and tracking a live

Bloomberg Connects is a free platform offering digital guides to cultural institutions like galleries, museums, and parks, featuring audio tours, videos, and interactive maps. As a new explorer of New York City’s cultural landscape, I’ll evaluate how this app shapes the museum experience through Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” and Davis’s “How Artifacts Afford.”

Dimensional is an interactive personality assessment app that provides users with in-depth insights into their traits, cognitive patterns, and archetypes. Through structured quizzes and AI-driven analysis, users can track personal growth, compare results within a broader community, and unlock deeper insights over time through daily engagement.

What are some artificial intelligence (AI) tools you use for school or everyday use? Google has been stepping up the game in bringing out their Generative AI tools. Apart from Gemini— Google’s version of Large language models(LLM) AI tool competing with ChatGPT— they introduced a product called NotebookLM, a research and note-taking tool assisting users