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.”
Tide, a mobile application for focus, sleep, and meditation, uses nature sounds, beautiful imagery, and encouraging words along with clean interface design to help users improve their mental well-being. Homepage view Icons for activities like Focus, Sleep, Nap, and Breath are near the bottom of the homepage, and they are easily discoverable. Along with the […]
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Zoom is a cloud-based communication app that recently gained immense popularity due to the pandemic. Zoom has become the chosen tool for people to connect with each other virtually. The app is popularly known for its service that allows users to set up virtual video and audio conferences. Some of the capabilities that Zoom offers
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Google lookout is an Android App designed for people who are visually impaired to easily identify their surroundings and get things done faster and more easily. This App uses AI to identify objects through the camera of a user’s phone. Google states that people who are visually impaired also prefer mastering their lives. This product
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Snapseed is a photo-editing app for android and iOS users. It is a perfect application for every novice and professional photographer/editor as it provides various detailed and powerful tools. Initial screen As the users open the Snapseed, the application always greets them with this screen(figure 1). It starts simple for users, as here they are
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Description: Headspace is an app that guides users through a mediation process to help decrease stress, focus more, and sleep better. This app follows a reflective cognitive processing because it focuses on a specific need for the users and how it will benefit the user in the long run. Navigation: Headspace did a great job
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Back Story As a first time user, I was launched to the Pratt Institute Library unwittingly, via a copy and paste link from a course syllabus. With no prior introduction to this website, I thought to put it to the test against Jesse James Garret’s five elements from his book, The Elements of User Experience,
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What does Kinnarps do? Kinnarps is a Swedish product company that owns several brands(Kinnarps, drabert, MARTINSTOLL, etc.). Their core products are office products, education products and healthcare products. In their website, you can find all their products, each product details as well as how to purchase it through third-party dealer. They have a great organization
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Bookshop.org is a website dedicated to selling books while promoting and supporting local bookstores around the U.S. It’s a service I use frequently, so I wanted to examine the website under the lens of the five planes of user experience design, as described by Jesse James Garrett in The Elements of User Experience. The five
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THE CHALLENGE I was part of an ambitious project to evaluate the desktop version of the Barnard Digital Collections website (based on user research), address critical issues, and provide recommendations to solve them. THE CLIENT – A POOL OF ARCHIVAL MATERIALS Created in 2014, the Barnard Digital Collections features materials from the Barnard Archives and Special
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About AdBlock AdBlock is an open source browser extension for blocking intrusive or distracting ads on websites. It is inconspicuous in the browsing experience but has a powerful impact, with the ability to block banner ads, pop-ups, and video ads. This extension has been my ad blocker of choice for close to a decade because
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