Design Critiques

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.”

Design Critique: Pratt.edu (Web site)

Pratt.edu is the official website for Pratt institute through which all of the information necessary for students can be accessible. Processes such as registration, accessing bills, accessing MyPratt, OnePratt, and etc. is available through this portal which makes it a vital element through every student’s collegiate career at Pratt. Now in order to assess this […]

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Design Critique: Bilibili (Website)

Bilibili is an original video plus animation platform(it includes app and website) with its identical feature called bullet comments(flying comment on the screen sent by the viewers), forming community culture and topics as the viewer interacts with the platform. It contains a wide variety of videos and categorizes as many sections, such as education, living, finance, etc.

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Design Critique: Instagram (iOS app)

Instagram is a social-networking platform where you connect communities with digital contents. With years of iteration, it has advanced many features to cater different user groups and evolved into a marketing and merchandising channel. This design critique will discuss v 172. iOS app version in Asia Pacific as some features may not be available in different

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Design Critique: Adobe Acrobat (Desktop software [Windows/ Mac])

Adobe Acrobat is an application software available in both Windows and macOS for people to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in pdf. This article would critique the usability issues when saving and retrieving a starred file in Adobe Acrobat based on the framework mentioned in Don Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things. 1)

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