Author name: Samika Rastogi

Encouraging People To Take Action Towards Climate Change

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Project Overview This website redesign effort for ClimateScience.org was the final project for the “Projects in IXD” course at Pratt Institute’s School of Information. The team members were Yang Cheng (’23), Samika Rastogi (’23), and Derek Frisicchio (’23). The redesign effort was advised by Professor Hasan Hachem. The team at ClimateScience.org was observed having issues […]

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Enhancing accessibility of relevant information for graduate students on Pratt’s desktop website using eye-tracking

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Role UX Research, Data Analysis, Designing Recommendations, Reporting Team Ariella Brown, Johna Shi, Samika Rastogi, Shubhangi Singh TIMELINE Oct 26, 2022 – Dec 14, 2022 Overview Our team worked with Pratt Institute to evaluate the performance of their re-designed website, launched in the Summer of 2022. The objective of this study was to understand the

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Helping users find food pantries easily on the Staten Island Hunger Task Force mobile website

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ROLE UX Research, Data Analysis, Presentation Editing TEAM Ariella Brown, Johna Shi, Samika Rastogi, Shubhangi Singh TIMELINE Sept 14, 2022 – Oct 12,2022 Overview Staten Island Hunger Task Force is a non-profit organization committed to resolving the issue of hunger on Staten Island by connecting food pantries to community members and government resources. Our goal

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Redesigning the NYCUFAA website: Building a social community for NYC Urban Fellows Alumni

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Overview The Urban Fellows Alumni Association is a non-profit organization for the former participants of the New York City Urban Fellows Program. While the organization aims to sustain a network of alumni to support them socially and professionally, its current website doesn’t align with its goals. This project’s goal was to create a sense of community

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Is The Henry Ford Innovation Atlas intuitive and easy to navigate?

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Overview The Henry Ford Innovation Atlas is a web-based mapping tool that aims to help users investigate factors affecting innovation and invention in the education system. It also provides solutions and resources to bridge these innovation gaps.  Client’s Goals Enhancing the usability of the tool Magnifying the discoverability of different features across the tool Through remote moderated usability

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Design Critique: Facebook Marketplace (iOS App)

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Facebook Marketplace is a section on the Facebook app whose mission is to provide users a platform to arrange to buy, sell and trade items with other people in their area. The transactions and interactions are purely user-to-user. Facebook isn’t responsible for facilitating or managing transactions. This blog post will focus on two modes of

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