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.”
The Luminary app is designed to take the same subscriber-based model popularized by Netflix and Spotify and apply it to the podcast industry. Launched in 2019, Luminary’s model promises subscribers an ad-free experience where they can listen to Luminary exclusive content as well as the podcasts they’ve listened to on competitor apps. Onboarding Through […]
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Google Meet is a digital video conferencing application that allows users to join and/or host meetings from remote locations. While steadily gaining popularity over the years, digital conferencing platforms such as this became a standard and daily practice for businesses and education alike when the Covid-19 pandemic began to sweep across the United States. Almost
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This project will highlight an example of good and a badly designed traffic signage in New York City. I will explain and make recommendations to improve the badly designed traffic sign and give feedback has to why the good designed signage deemed as a good design. The good and bad design of parking Signs in NYC. Parking signs in
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JAWS, Job Access with Speech, is a computer screen reader for Microsoft Windows. It allows blind and visually impaired users to read the screen and navigate without a mouse. It provides the user with a text-to-speech output or braille display. The software is capable of reading documents, emails, websites, and apps as well filling out
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In 2020, most of the products we use today have some type of dark mode integrated into the user interface. Dark mode is a color scheme which utilizes light-colored text, icons, and graphical user interface elements on a dark background. Dark mode is often associated with accessibility with its user-friendliness to those who have poor
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The Immersive reader is the primary feature of Microsoft Learning Tools and was developed based on literacy science to improve the readability of content. It was mainly designed for students with dyslexia and dysgraphia and by supporting them in a non-stigmatizing way, it helps students with learning differences to grow into more independent learners.
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The Google Arts & Culture App provides an online platform in which users can view high-resolution artworks and learn the worldwide culture of art from their smartphone anywhere and at any time. This article mainly introduces the user experiences related to augmented reality(AR) features and interactive games. Note: This design critique is focused on the
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Noted is a smart note-taking app that allows users to take notes while recording audio. It’s a great app for whenever you want to quickly jot down notes during a lecture, meeting, or a conference so you can focus more on the present moment. You can go back and listen to the audio to organize
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Zara is a well-known Spanish apparel retailer, specializing in fast fashion, leading design trends for young shoppers and promoting creative design and special materials using. The branding is very strong through out its website and mobile app. However, in terms of functionality of its digital tools, there are a lot to comment.
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Timed Tickets vs. Plan your visit vs. Book your visit vs. Free timed ticket While it is common for museums to have call to action buttons or multiple ways to guide the visitors to purchase and reserve tickets, there should be a tasteful and simple way to guide the visitor to this action. MoMA’s homepage
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