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.”
Introduction Letterboxd is a social platform centering around movies. Its main features are rating and reviewing movies, adding movies you wish to watch later into a “Watchlist,” and interacting with your friends’ reviews. This critique goes through these three main user flows and outlines how to improve them. Reviewing a movie The bottom navigation bar
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Zara’s website allows users to browse, compare, and purchase clothing and accessories online. This critique follows a typical user’s shopping journey through the site, highlighting both effective and ineffective aspects of usability throughout the experience.
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Apple Wallet has been around for quite a while, and what started as Passbook in 2012 (mainly for boarding passes, movie tickets, coupons) has become an app to make payments. In 2015 Apple renamed Passbook to Apple Wallet and since then it has gradually become something I can use for everyday payments, transit, IDs, and
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Steam is a digital platform for discovering, purchasing, downloading, and managing video games that are launched by different companies. Its interface provides users with many ways to browse games, organize their library, and manage downloads. While the platform offers a wide range of features, some parts of the interface can be difficult to understand or
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Facebook Marketplace is a popular digital interface built within the Facebook ecosystem that allows users to buy, sell, and trade items locally. This critique analyzes the iOS mobile app interface from a buyer’s perspective, focusing on how its search, browse, and interaction features impact the user experience.
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Apple Music is a music streaming app for Apple users. Users can search for music by mood, genre, artist, decade, and more. Apple Music also features various exclusive and global radio shows, playlist options, personalized radio stations, and an Apple Yearly Wrapped. For the purpose of this critique, I will evaluate Apple Music from the
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Glasses are one of the most common forms of assistive technology. However, because they have become so commonplace in daily life, it can be easy to overlook the significant role they play in addressing vision impairment on a global scale as medical devices.
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Adobe Acrobat is a widely used application for creating, viewing, and editing PDF files. It’s the tool many professionals rely on to produce a final, polished version of a document, from students submitting assignments to teams finalizing contracts.
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Sonos is recognized for delivering an exceptional acoustic experience and is widely used to set up multi-room streaming, and home-theater setups. The brand encourages streaming through its own portal; however, the interface fails to provide a smooth experience between the app and a user’s preferred streaming platform.
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Introduction to Framer and its AI agent Framer is a trendy, designer-friendly website-building platform. It allows users to design and publish responsive websites without writing any code. In June 2026, it launched its AI agent with the release of Framer 3.0, aimed at providing users with real-time AI assistance while designing their websites. Upon its
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