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.”
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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Roze Bunker is a Dutch company that makes and sells fruit juices and syrups primarily intended for use as cocktail mixers. This design critique will examine the English version of the site when used on a desktop monitor.
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Super Mario Run is a mobile video game released by Nintendo in 2016. In this game, you control the main character, Mario, by tapping the screen to jump as he runs through various courses. Being Nintendo’s first venture on iOS, this platform game has received a lot of critical feedback since its launch.
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SHEIN is a cross-border e-commerce platform mainly aimed at young women aged 15-30 and provides attractive products at a reasonable price. Including clothing, accessories, etc. This design critique focuses on the IOS version of SHEIN. I evaluated some features of this version through a cognitive walkthrough. My task is to buy a pair of pants.
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Airbnb is a digital marketplace for property rentals that disrupted the travel and tourism industries after it emerged on the scene in 2008. Known for its sleek branding and design, Airbnb allows property owners to host visitors while simultaneously opening up a whole world of new experiences (not exclusive to accommodations) for travelers. 1. Initial
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Spare Room is a roommate website for tenants to find roommates & rooms and hosts to rent out rooms in the UK and US. Its romantic target is to meet potential friends by sharing life.
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What is Apple Wallet? Apple Wallet is a build-in app on iPhone that help user organizes their credit and debit cards, transportation passes and tickets, identity cards, keys, rewards cards all in one place, and use them conveniently in daily life. In this article, I am going to use the design concepts proposed by Norman
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Reading is a fun diversion, whether it’s a riveting novel or an interesting blog post or a funny tweet. It becomes a challenge when you are sleep-deprived or in a noisy environment and it’s hard to concentrate. This simple activity poses an even greater challenge for people with cognitive impairments that affect their ability to read.
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Universe is the first website builder made for building websites from an iPhone. Universe is available on iPhone, iPad, and MacOS. Universe uses a Grid interface to allow you to drag and drop elements, “Blocks”, to create websites the palm of your hand.
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The curb cut is a work of assistive technology so commonplace that it is more a part of assistive infrastructure than a “product.” Curb cuts, those short concrete ramps found at just about every pedestrian intersection in the United States, provide a gentle slope from an elevated sidewalk to the street surface below. About 1
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