Focus Friend is an app created by online educator Hank Green in collaboration with Honey B Games. It is a cute focus timer app that allows users to restrict all or selected app usage for a period of time so they can “focus” on a needed task. The app’s main functions are its focus timer
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When you move away from traditional cable, switching to a web-based live TV service should feel simple and intuitive. For YouTube TV, a good desktop experience should make it easy to find and play a channel while clearly showing what’s playing or recording. YouTube TV brings familiar TV conventions into a clean digital interface, but a few design choices make basic actions more difficult than they need to be.
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Strava is a popular fitness and social app that allows users to track their progress, stay consistent and motivated while also connecting with the fitness community. Users are able to record workouts, share their achievements, follow friends and track their progress as well. Overall, Strava uses a similar interface to other popular applications such as
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Introduction AMC Theatres is a major movie exhibition company in the U.S. cinema industry. The AMC Theatres iOS app is an online service platform that allows users to search for showtimes for movies and special events and buy tickets, food, and drinks online in advance. This app streamlines the process for users before watching a
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Introduction Amazon Shopping is the mobile app for Amazon’s online store. It offers products ranging from everyday essentials to electronics and home goods. Customers can shop and manage orders on their phones. The critique examines both helpful features and frustrating parts of the iOS app. 1. Finding Product Categories The Amazon Shopping iOS app home
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Introduction English Planet is a vocabulary-learning app designed to strengthen vocabulary memorization. It blends game elements to reduce the burden of memorizing vocabulary. The user’s goal is to identify unfamiliar words and add them to their word list. The following critique analyzes the app using design concepts from Don Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things.
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Apple created a mobile messenger app called iMessage which enables users to send text messages, images, videos, and files through Wi-Fi or a cellular network. This app has evolved significantly through Apple’s iOS updates, introducing new ways for users to communicate and interact with others. This critique focuses on the most recent version of iMessage.
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How We Feel is a free app created by the scientific nonprofit How We Feel Project to help users effectively journal, track, and regulate emotions over time.
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Polarsteps is a travel tracking app that lets users plan trips by creating itineraries and exploring recommendations, and document their trips with notes and images on an interactive map. This critique evaluates key interactions in the iOS app using concepts from Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” to analyse how they shape the travel tracking experience.
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What if ordering your morning coffee did not require a cashier? The Luckin Coffee (U.S. iOS app) turns the entire ordering process into a cashier-less digital experience. Users can choose a store, browse the menu, apply offers, pay in the app, and pick up their order, making the interface an integral part of the ordering experience.
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