Sound Notifications is an accessibility feature for Android phones designed to improve environmental sound awareness for individuals who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, in order to make important household sounds more accessible. Through the phone’s notifications, camera flash, or vibration motor, users are alerted whenever a particular type of sound is detected by the
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The Bing Bong Android application is a customizable widget that displays the current arrival times for the subway in NYC. Pulling from the MTA’s real-time data feed, the application operates primarily on the user’s home screen. The application itself is only for customizing the widgets, which serves as the user’s primary point of interaction with
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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