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: GlobeSt.com Website

GlobeSt.com provides the commercial real estate community with top stories, analysis, and industry trends. The majority of site users hold a title of CEO, CFO, or SVP. For the purposes of this critique, I am focusing on the responsive website, including specific features like menu, account sign in, and newsletter sign up. Discoverability & Feedback […]

Design Critique: GlobeSt.com Website Read More »

Design Critique: Tayasui Sketches Pro (iPad app)

Tayasui Sketches is a sketching app designed for mobile devices. It allows professionals and non-professionals to create digital illustrations through traditional drawing experience. By providing a set of realistic digital drawing tools and advanced features (e.g. layers), it greatly meets basic requirements for creating illustrations while giving more capabilities to users. Figure 1: showing layer

Design Critique: Tayasui Sketches Pro (iPad app) Read More »

Design Critique: Workflowy (browser)

Workflowy is a flexible digital notebook for students, professionals, and any person who wants to keep notes, to-dos, and information organized in a simple interface.  Using intuitive and easily discoverable interactions, Workflowy allows users to compress huge amounts of data into a series of small, collapsable categories.  Entire books, successful corporations, and households are made

Design Critique: Workflowy (browser) Read More »