Tacombi is a Mexican taqueria chain I visit often, and I check tacombi.com on my phone right before I go, mainly for the menu or a reservation. Using Don Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things as a lens, the site’s ideas are mostly good: a bold graphic identity, a persistent header, even an accessibility widget.
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What if you could listen to art? Kandinsky explored the relationship between painting and music throughout his work. Inspired by his ideas, this experiment by Chrome Music Lab lets you turn your drawings into sound.
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Particle News is a news aggregator designed to synthesize coverage from hundreds of outlets into a single AI-generated summary per story. Rather than directing users to one publication’s perspective, the platform aggregates reporting across multiple sources and presents a unified overview, allowing readers to explore individual outlet coverage as needed. This critique examines how effectively
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Basecamp is a project management and collaboration tool designed to help teams organize their work in one place. It has features such as messaging, task lists, schedules, and basically anything that would allow team members to coordinate projects and communicate without relying on multiple separate tools. The latest version of this software is Basecamp 5.
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Photoshop Express is a mobile photo editor by Adobe. It’s a lightweight version of Photoshop made for quick edits on your phone. The main functions of the app are its one tap editing/adjustment tools and its AI features, like Remove Background, Swap Outfit, and Insert Objects. Most of us edit our photos. It’s such a
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Can learning to code actually be kind of fun? Flexbox Froggy is a website that teaches CSS Flexbox through gameplay across 24 levels. The task is to move the frogs to their corresponding lilypads using CSS properties. As levels progress, it gets more challenging, from using one property per level to combining up to four
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Cameron’s World, often referred to as “A love letter to the internet of old,” is a web collage of GeoCities pages, filled with neon colors, animation, hyperlinks, text, and images from 1994–2009. The creator, Cameron Askin, wanted to capture how websites used to look back in that era. It was a time when a website
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By Sofia Harmon Using Don Norman’s design principles and concepts from his book The Design of Everyday Things I evaluated the digital interface of Citi Bike’s app, a popular app for bike and e-bike rentals in NYC. Although overall this app is very user friendly and well-designed, there are a few issues that can cause
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Oura is a hardware and software company dedicated to making health a daily practice. The Oura Ring uses health sensors to capture round-the-clock physiological signals, offering personalized insights on physical health and well-being via their mobile app. Oura aims to help users understand their bodies better and confidently take action in everyday life.
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Do! is a free to-do and reminder app advertised for its intuitive interface. It allows users to create different to-do lists where each task can be assigned a category, date and order. The draw to this app is its simple, fast and delightful design that gives users a tool that requires minimal learning and an
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