Design Critiques

Introduction Early last week, urban planning think tank TransitCenter tweeted a data visualization that presented a befuddling statistic: despite NYC’s growing population and record subway ridership, MTA public bus ridership has plummeted nearly 16% since 2002. TransitCenter’s research indicates that this remarkable decrease in ridership is a symptom of the “declining quality of bus service,” […]

Figure 1. Amagansett Free Library homepage. Click to expand.   The desktop site for the Amagansett Free Library, as well at its mobile counterpart, inform users of the services, resources and events available to them as patrons of the library. Issue 1: Lack of a navigation bar across all pages leads to poor discoverability As

             The New York Public Library (along with most libraries) has wrestled with the challenge of providing an intuitive process for lending e-books. To bridge this wide gulf of execution, they recently released SimplyE, a mobile app that aims to drastically minimize the steps needed to fulfill the goal of accessing e-books from the near 300,000

MTA’s Subway Time smartphone application provides real-time arrival information for a select number of New York City subway lines. The app utilizes existing countdown clocks to display multiple arrivals for both directions of each line. Despite its limited functionality, Subway Time allows frequent riders to plan their commute. The design issues and proposed improvements highlighted

MLB.com At Bat is the official app of Major League Baseball. It delivers real time game information and MLB related stats by text, images, and video clips to users of the mobile app. Even though this app deals with a large amount of data, it is amazingly well organized. Despite its many advantages, At Bat

The effective of user interface design should be visualize and inclusive, it will bring the user a feeling of control. The user could understand what they could do through the website and how to manipulate just using the direction through website. The website IOTORAMA is designed by Alpha-ville, which is a London based creative studio.

  The LIFE Gallery of Photography is a web site whose purpose is to display, license, and sell the work of LIFE’s staff photographers during its 36 years as a weekly magazine, as well as other images in the Time Inc. Picture Collection. From 1936 to 1972, it covered the major news in politics, culture,

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the most popular museums in New York City, spanning a large collection of various pieces of art from around the world and from every age of history.  Three years ago, I wrote a memorandum regarding their web page, specifically in reference to people on the autistic spectrum

myPratt is a website to provide various information for students in Pratt Institute. I found it is hard to find what I really want when the first time I used myPratt. This is not only because too much information in this website, but also some unclear interface design. This critique focuses on the issues on

This mobile application from the Weather Channel provides users with accurate and up to the minute information. The application also goes beyond basic weather reports, featuring video clips of breaking weather news and broadcasted segments from Weather Channel programs, as well as seasonal tools (i.e. road conditions, local pollen and flu reports, etc.). Issue 1: