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.”
Seeing AI, launched in 2017 by Microsoft, is an intelligent camera application designed for people with vision impairment. With a combination of both artificial intelligence and computer vision, this application helps to narrate the world by describing text, objects and people using a mobile phone camera. Since its launch, it has guided people to complete […]
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At CES 2019, Samsung introduced GAITS (Gait enhancing and motivating system), a line of wearables to assist various body parts (hip, knee, ankle). Gems-H, a walking assistant designed to correct posture, provide stability, increase the walking pace and provide resistance to help with injury rehabilitation was a prototype that caught a lot of attention. With constant
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Netflix is an American media-services provider and production company which focuses on subscription-based online streaming services offering a library of films and television programs, including those produced in-house.
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Sleep Cycle is an alarm-like mobile application that helps users have a better sleep by relaxing them at bedtime, tracking their sleep and waking them up at the light sleep phase. This post reviews this application according to Norman’s Design Principles with the following tasks: play a sleep aid, set up an alarm and close
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About Mint Mobile, formerly Mint SIM, is subsidiary of Ultra Mobile. It provides prepaid wireless service for youth market. Due to its inexpensive rates and simple user experience, Mint has gotten favorable feedback. Through its app, subscribers can buy packages of different months up front and other phone service including high speed data and international
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Meetup.com is a site for themed groups and corresponding events. It aims to give the impression of fast-tracking a user to meeting people at such events and tangibly advancing their lives. I became a member on meetup.com by connecting to it from an email sent to Pratt’s google group. You can become a member of
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DisneyPlus is a new streaming service that’s only 2-3 months old and their target audience are users who love all things Disney. Giving Disney users a platform where they can indulge themselves in a world where users can watch anything that Disney’s touch ever created. But not only do Disney viewers get to enjoy this
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Chewy.com is an online retailer of pet food and products I use to order things for my cat Ram. I focused on the seven fundamental principles of design from Don Norman’s book The Design of Everyday Things to show where this site displayed the application of good design. His book provides guidelines for designing understandable,
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What makes Google Maps Navigation so easy to adopt by novice users? A critique using Don Norman’s principles.
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Apple Music is a subscription-based music streaming service that provides user with access to an endless amounts of albums, artist, playlist, etc. It includes a great amount of features such as following friends to see what they’re listening to, lyrics, and off-line streaming. Search Page Upon opening of the Apple Music app, the navigation bar
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