Design Critiques

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.”

Design Critique: Crunchyroll (Android App)

           Crunchyroll is an American licensing company and online community that serves as an online streaming service for Japanese Anime and Asian media. Originally founded by a group of University of California, Berkeley graduates in 2006, Crunchyroll’s distribution channel serves over 23 million online community members worldwide. While the full website […]

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Design Critique: Calculator (iPhone Application, iOS 11.2.5 version)

The calculator application simply defined is a digital calculator. It can perform the most basic mathematical functions (such as addition/subtraction) all the way to solving more complex algebraic problems (such as logarithmic functions). For brevity, I will mainly focus upon the interface attributes that are present in the basic calculator mode (Refer to Figure 1

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