What makes some designs good and others bad? Why do some designs work while others don’t? Posts in this category offer thoughtful design critiques of modern digital interfaces, with commentary inspired by Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things.”
At first glance an obscure mix of television, movies, and news, IMDB is a dive into what a film website can do to keep itself relevant through a dying age of movie theaters. I took a deep dive into the site’s design with a journey through this ambiguous site using Don Norman’s design principals.
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StreetEasy is an app which allows users to browse NYC Real Estate For Sale and Rent. It provides free map and photo search of rentals, condos, co-ops, lofts, and single family homes in New York City.
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Data Is Plural is a website that provides information on creative and unique datasets as well as sources that can help with better research. Which is why the website is a very useful resource to people who are interested in data, work with data or are just interested in different information. The website is founded
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Foundation is a responsive app that works as an ecosystem of trade, sale, and curation of NFTs (non-fungible tokens). It can be connected with digital wallets to use the cryptocurrency Ethereum as payment for art-digital pieces. It also serves as a platform for artists to curate their art pieces including featured drops, worlds, and trending
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Swoosh.Nike is a new virtual space where everyone interested can collaborate in designing and owning the future of Nike’s digital products through blockchain. People can co-create, build collections, earn royalties, and trade virtual Nike products for digital fashion in web3. The platform promises to use its own NFTs as wearables to incentivize people’s individuality and
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This is a design critique for the iOS app of Netflix – a streaming app. It discusses the main features, design, and comparison with competitors on the basis of Norman’s design principles.
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Bandcamp is an online record store, music community, and streaming service known for supporting independent artists with favorable profit splits and flexible pricing options. It enables fans to purchase artists’ albums digitally and physically as vinyls, tapes, and CDs. The platform also hosts merchandise like shirts and hats. There are social features which allow fans
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Arc- The Conceptual Model Arc is a new-age browser built by ‘The Browser Company’. Browsers are our gateway to the internet. The mental model that one approaches using this browser with is as follows. Arc sets these achievable goals for the user, but promises to be more than a browser. Arc affords functionality of not
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In 2022, Netflix achieved several notable successes. It brought its total subscriber base to over 200 million and released several successful original series and films and has continued to expand its footprint globally, launching in new markets and building its local content library. Behind these tremendous accomplishments lies elaborately built user experience design created by
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Google Keep is a free note-taking service launched by Google in March 2013. It allows users to take quick notes like grocery lists, categorize them with custom labels, add reminders, share it with others and organize all notes at one place. Google Keep is available on Android and iOS as a mobile application and on
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