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.”
Bumble, a popular dating app, offers a traditional swipe/match platform but with a new concept that only women can make the first move to initiate a chat. Currently, Bumble has launched three features “Bumble Date”, “Bumble BFF” and “Bumble Bizz”. The entire philosophy behind Bumble was to create a place that leveled the dating field […]
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Whatsapp Messenger is a cross-platform free messaging application owned by Facebook. It allows users to send text messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other media. In this design critique assignment, I will be applying the concepts discussed by Don Norman in The Design of Everyday Things to evaluate
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Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking platform that allows users to post and share multimedia and other contents. In this article, I will critique Tumblr iOS app based on the design principles and concepts mentioned in Don Norman’s book The Design of Everyday Things. Navigation Once logged in, users are directed to the home
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ColorBrewer 2.0 is a simple and effective webpage created by Cynthia Brewer, Mark Harrower, and The Pennsylvania State University. It is used as a diagnostic tool for evaluating and designing color schemes, particularly in the context of cartography. Its success is based in its limitations, with only 165 possible color schemes, users choose a variety
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Genius is a highly sought-after American media company, founded in 2009. It aims at spreading music knowledge, from song lyrics to the artist and the stories behind the creation. The company offers musicians, editors, contributors and, fans to explore, discuss, and understand the deeper meaning behind the music. Genius’s application is available on Playstore and Appstore.
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Critiquing the design of Tile’s device and mobile app interfaces indicate minor usability problems but an otherwise seamless and highly understandable and usable design that satisfies user needs.
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Yelp is an application with the mission “to connect people with great local businesses”. It is a platform where users are able to locate restaurants, dentist, hair stylist, mechanics, local businesses and other services nearby. Almost 80% of the searches on Yelp are done through its mobile app with restaurants being the most reviewed business
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Spotify is a popular music-streaming service that provides its users with access to millions of songs from a multitude of creators. WIth a Spotify account, a user can save their preferred music and access it from any device that supports Spotify—including mobile phones, computers, and web browsers. This design critique focuses on Spotify’s app for iOS devices.
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The World Bank is one of the foremost providers of global development data. Through its Open Data website, users can find, visualize, and download hundreds of datasets. This design critique will focus on this example page, since many users will land on a page like this without seeing the homepage (as I have in my
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Introduction During my time supporting a US defense project, I found myself more privy to my privacy needs and started using a Google Voice number as an alternate to my real number for calls, texting and online usage. Google Voice gives you a phone number for calling, text messaging, and voicemail. It works on
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