Design Critiques

Venmo is a digital wallet app that can be used to conduct personal or business-related payments. It’s a service that has gained popularity in the past few years, and having been around for a while, it’s rolled out some new features. The mobile app has undergone a recent redesign, so I’d like to examine the

National Grid is one of the world’s largest investor-owned energy companies; they are committed to delivering electricity and gas safely, reliably, and efficiently to all their customers in the communities they serve. Their website states that they work closely with customers, partners, and communities to develop solutions to the problem we might face. However, their

Headspace is an app for mindfulness and meditation. Its recent growth in content and users is accompanied by modifications to the app’s design and features. This critique intends to highlight positive and negative attributes of Headspace’s digital interface, using concepts laid out in The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman. Search Function Every primary

Duolingo is an application that gives users the opportunity to learn over 30 different languages on their electronic devices. The app provides short courses meant to be taken daily that users can access for free. In this post I be using concepts from Don Norman’s ‘The Design of Everyday Things’ to critique the design of

Google Photos is an online photo storage and sharing website, used by many as an easy way to house one’s photos. It gives users free storage for up to 16 megapixels of photos and videos. It was released in 2015 and currently has over 1 billion users. Affordance – Exiting out of an individual photo

Car and Driver is an American automotive enthusiast magazine. Its total circulation is 1.23 million. It is owned by Hearst Magazines, who purchased prior owner Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. in 2011. It was founded as Sports Cars Illustrated. Originally headquartered in New York City, the magazine has been based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for many