Design Critiques

LinkedIn is a job seeking portal that lets you find internships, jobs and make connections with other people and recruiters in your field. Users can access groups and pages that provide job openings and inspiration relating to their field. Career seeking aspirants are able to showcase their skills and prior work experiences for the employers to be able to easily discover them. It has a modern layout that is easy to use and understand.

Introduction The iPhone Photos app has been a go-to for iOS users for years. It stores and organizes images taken on the phone by time and date. As a pre-installed app, saving images within the Apple ecosystem is fairly seamless. The app has changed through many iOS updates, but the current version, 26.6.1, has been

Kroger is one of the largest supermarket chains in the US, providing grocery and pharmaceutical needs to millions of customers and offering order pickup, delivery, or in-store shopping. This design critique follows a user as they interact with Kroger’s app while shopping in-store. Kroger Home Screen Kroger uses its app’s home screen to highlight available

RidePATH is the official app of the PATH train, connecting thousands of daily commuters between Manhattan and New Jersey, providing users with real-time updates, service alerts, train schedules, trip planning, and favorited stations, all in one place for a convenient journey. As a daily commuter, I will draw on Don Norman’s principles from his book

Garmin Connect syncs, tracks, and analyzes health and fitness data from a Garmin device. A key feature is activity tracking across running, biking, and other sports, giving maps with pace and heart rate metrics. It additionally provides data on workouts, steps, heart rate, sleep, stress and body battery from the user’s watch and can sync training plans from other apps onto the device.

Developed in 2011, Pocket Casts is an app available for use on mobile devices and desktops whose primary purpose is to allow users to stream or played downloaded audio podcasts. The free version of the app allows users to search and subscribe to podcasts, download individual episodes, create playlists, and automate actions.   Play Button The

Spotify is a popular music streaming service that allows users to listen to music, make playlists and access radio stations. Over time, the platform has grown and updated to allow users to share music with friends on the platform, listen to audiobooks, and even the ability to view nearby concerts and buy tickets. Spotify has

Procreate is a digital illustration and painting software designed for the iPad. It has several key features for digital artwork including custom brushes and tools, a layer system, drawing guides, and more. It is popular due to its one time payment fee, and the way that it is specifically engineered for the Apple Pencil with

RA Guide is a Resident Advisor’s mobile app for discovering electronic music events, venues, and artists. Users can browse and filter nightlife listings by date and city, follow artists, promoters, and venues, and buy and display tickets in-app. This critique examines RA Guide’s browsing, filtering, and ticketing design using concepts from Don Norman’s The Design

Introduction Apple Music is a subscription-based music streaming platform created by Apple, offering access to over 100 million songs alongside curated playlists, personalized recommendations, and offline listening. I have been an active Apple Music user since 2020. Though the majority of the time I am satisfied with the interface, there are some features that I