Design Critiques

Slack is a messaging platform used by many companies and organizations to help facilitate communication and collaboration among groups of people. It offers a wide variety of features and functions such as sending pre-scheduled messages, recording audio clips, setting up small meeting sessions, and integrating popular apps.

Reminders app helps people remember things they can easily forget, such as grocery lists. It gives users interface with daily checklist without making any additional effort. Throughout this blog, I will review the Reminders app in correlation with  Don Morman’s ‘Characteristics of good design’, mentioned in his book “The Design of Everyday Things.”

Apple Books is the default ereader provided by the Mac OS and primarily supports ePubs and iBooks. It allows the user to add downloaded books, track reading progress, set daily reading goals, purchase new books and more. Personally, I have been using it to read books and it is my preferred choice for a ereader.

AllTrails is a fitness and travel app for outdoor activities like hiking, biking and climbing. It provides users with trail guides to find their most suitable trails, navigate along the way and keep tracking their routes. This critique will focus on one of its key functions, trail navigation.

For any juror summoned to serve in New York State, the NY Court website is the main artery through which one can uncover information about serving on a jury (or find any other court-related information.) This includes critical updates about whether or not one is called to serve on their expected summons date, or whether they are dismissed from being summoned.

by Julia Ahmad – September 13, 2022 “Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, serving us without drawing attention to itself. Bad design, on the other hand, screams out its inadequacies, making itself very noticeable.”