Helping a unique shopping platform express its true value through research-based design: A case study on SHOPORG.
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By Sylvia Xinquan Xu/ December 15, 2025 / News Magnificent H is a platform built with passion to collaborate with artists, history lovers, museums, and brand owners to showcase their ideas, love, and enthusiasm in art through the form of creating a micro-museum. Based on the great effort from the developers, by using the method of moderated testing,
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If You Answered Yes, NYC We Have Something for You! The Department of Consumer and Worker Protection’s core function is twofold: it enforces consumer protection and licensing laws to shield New Yorkers from predatory business practices, while also enforcing critical worker protection standards like paid safe and sick leave, fair workweek laws for certain sectors,
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Project Overview: Interacting With Young Adults: Understanding Navigation and Terminology on MagnificentH MagnificentH is a micro-museum platform contain knowledge and cultural storytelling, with the goal of bringing museums into a new digital era. The platform allows museums and creators to showcase visual content that exposes the public to art and history in an authentic way,
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Abstract This project was assigned to my class as our final for the semester. Our client, OpenLab at City Tech, required a total redesign of their website/digital offerings, with an emphasis on inclusivity. Our class’ overall goal was to provide the OpenLab team with an accessibility-first redesign of their website. My team’s role specifically in
MagnificentH offers a digital space to share and post users’ creations as its own micro-museum, while also allowing for monetization and agency over their work. Our goal is to improve the website’s usability regarding terminology and understandability by conducting multiple remote moderated usability tests. Usability issues were revealed through these tests on MagnificentH.com regarding clarity and more visualization. Potential solutions were provided.
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OpenLab City Tech is a platform for faculty and students to access their school work or any resources they may need while attending or working at the institution. This case study revolves around creating better accessibility for OpenLab City Tech’s Directory pages via desktop and mobile. GOALS Tasked with doing an accessibility audit of OpenLab
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By Madison Magnani | INFO 644 | Usability Theory & Practice Project Snapshot Project: NYU Skirball Website Usability and Membership Redesign Client: NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts Timeline: 6 week research and design sprint Role: UX Researcher and Designer Brief Overview Timeline: 6-week research and design sprint (academic + client-facing) Our team recruited
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“Why aren’t business owners advertising to tourists on NYCTourism.com? It sees hundreds of thousands of hits a month!” This was the question my team and I set out to answer when we began our Information Architecture redesign project for the official NYC Tourism website. The overarching goal of the project was to create a mutually
Introduction This semester-long project focused on Digital Analytics and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) aimed at optimizing the digital ecosystem for the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Within a team of three, including Gloria Yang, James Huang, and myself (Kevin Zhang), we conducted a comprehensive audit – ranging from technical SEO analysis to social media
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