Sara Ma – IXD@Pratt

From Clutter to Clarity: Refreshing City Harvest’s Intranet Employee Portal

Sara Ma, Maanya Agarwal and Ha Do / May 16, 2025 / Projects

Overview City Harvest’s Employee Portal: a Shared Resource and Responsibility City Harvest is a New York nonprofit organization that rescues and delivers food for New Yorkers experiencing food insecurity. In 2023, City Harvest created their first organization-wide Microsoft Sharepoint intranet, the City Harvest Portal, to support employees’ access to shared company resources. Our team provided […]

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Design Critique: Ultimate Guitar iOS app

Sara Ma / September 11, 2024 / Design Critiques

Ultimate Guitar is primarily a crowdsourced catalog of chords and tabs. Musicians of all levels use its mobile app to learn how to play popular guitar, bass, and ukulele songs, improve their skills, and join a community of musicians. This is a design critique of the Ultimate Guitar iOS mobile app’s free tier. Overview Apply

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Assistive Technology: Netflix Audio Descriptions

Sara Ma / September 9, 2024 / Design Critiques

Audio descriptions are an accessibility feature on video streaming platforms that uses narration to describe what happens in a scene between dialogue. This feature benefits people who are blind or have low vision to understand plot-critical details that are visually communicated in a video.

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Author name: Sara Ma

From Clutter to Clarity: Refreshing City Harvest’s Intranet Employee Portal

Design Critique: Ultimate Guitar iOS app

Assistive Technology: Netflix Audio Descriptions