Design Critique: Feeld

INTRO Feeld is a dating and social discovery app designed for people interested in exploring alternative relationship models, including ethical non-monogamy, polyamory, and kink. Unlike traditional dating apps, it emphasizes openness, inclusivity, and curiosity, allowing singles and couples to connect with others who share similar values around relationships and intimacy.  Due to the nature of […]

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Design Critique: Planta (iOS App)

Picture having a caretaker who knows when your plant needs water, soil, or care when sick. That’s the essence Planta aimed to offer with schedules, reminders, guides, identification, and a light meter. This critique takes a beginner’s view, focusing on adding plants, reminders, and the homepage, using ideas from Don Norman and Jenny Davis. Onboarding

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Design critique : Hume.ai’s Hero Page

Hume.ai offers advanced voice AI with strong emotional intelligence, functioning like a dynamic voice library. Users can choose from predesigned voice templates, design custom voices, or even clone their own. Its Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine generates expressive speech from text with control over emotion and style, while the Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) enables real-time speech or

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A person holding a smartphone displaying the Stellarium app, showing constellations against a starry night sky. Large white text on the left reads “Design Critique: Stellarium.

Design Critique: Stellarium (iOS App)

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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Hand holding a smartphone displaying the Flo app home screen, showing period tracking information on a pink gradient background, with the Flo logo on the left.

Design Critique: Flo (iOS App)

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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Design Critique: Shuffles by Pinterest

Shuffles is an app from Pinterest, the inspiration board-making platform, allowing users to “remix” their Pinterest boards into fun, expressive collages and content. As a Pinterest fan for years, I was excited to review the app. Pinterest is a really helpful tool to help collect visual inspiration for projects, whether for weddings, creative advertising campaigns,

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Design Critique: Daak (IOS App)

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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