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.”
TikTok is a short-form video sharing app that has become a popular form of entertainment in the last couple years. Users scroll through their “For You Page” that contains videos generated from content they have interacted with before. Videos range from 15 seconds to 3 minutes and can be genre of entertainment.
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ZocDoc is a popular New York-based online platform that makes it easy for people to schedule appointments with their doctors. Users can choose their insurance plan, schedule an appointment with a doctor in their network, and if they wish, leave a rating for the doctor’s services after they have attended the appointment. On initiating a
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Apple Books is an app used to read eBooks. As native app in Apple’s ecosystem, many people default to using Apple Books as it’s readily avalible and touts a minimalist interface. While it is simple to use and requires little learning, Apple Books still could use improvement in many ways. Apple Books has a skeuomorphic
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Poshmark is an e-commerce app that allows users to sell new or used fashion, home decor, beauty supplies and more in a social media like setting. It is available to users in the United States, Canada and Australia. This critique focuses on a Poshmark user looking to buy and sell items specifically on Poshmark’s iPhone
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Signal is a free cross-platform messaging application with features such as sending and receiving high fidelity messages, attachments, and participating in HD video calls and voice messages. Signal is a non-profit with a core focus on Data privacy and security, with no advertisement, and no trackers. In this assignment, I will apply concepts discussed in
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Discord is a communication service which allows users to chat, call, and share files and other media in one hub on the web or their desktop and mobile apps. Users can create or join existing servers, to which they can invite friends and open topic-specific chat threads as well as voice and/or video rooms to
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Crunchyroll is an anime focused streaming service that allows users to watch anime TV shows, read manga, and discover mobile anime-themed games. It has a vast library of animes to pick and choose from so that one will never be bored. Crunchyroll has a free version (where you have in-video ads), or the user can
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By Sara Almai Randonautica is a mobile phone application intended to be used as an aid for exploration. The application generates a random or pseudorandom set of coordinates, called a “point”, for the user, called a “randonaut”, to venture to. The point is generated based on a descriptor selected by the user on the homepage.
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Soundcloud is an “artist-first” open music platform for both listeners and music creators. With a global community of over 100 million users, SoundCloud focuses on emerging artists and less on mainstream music featured on apps like Spotify. The subscription based app become a popular platform for emerging and underground musicians to share their music or
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At a Glance Youtube is a video sharing and social media platform that has an app (on mobile devices) band is accessible through web browsers. It consists of three types of users: (1) Users who upload videos onto the platform for others to watch (2) Users who watch videos uploaded by other users (3) a
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