Author name: Shreesa Shrestha

Assistive Technology: Using NaviLens to navigate MTA

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Navilens is an assistive technology in transit systems like the MTA to make navigation more accessible. Using colorful, high-contrast markers that can be scanned with a smartphone camera, Navilens provides audio instructions about where you are and where to go supporting independent movement through a public environment that has traditionally relied on vision.

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Design Critique: Temu

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Temu, founded in Boston in 2022, is an online marketplace connecting Chinese sellers directly with customers. Their tagline “Shop Like a Billionaire” highlights their business model – eliminating distributors to offer lower prices. In this article I will be analyzing the Temu Web Application experience through the lens of Nielson Norman’s The design of everyday

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