Design Critiques

Domino’s app is an iOS and Andriod application that allows the user to conveniently order Domino’s Pizza from many devices including the Apple Watch. The application has the features to build pizza and order any other items the pizza store offers for delivery or pick-up from a nearby store location. The process of ordering a […]

Amazon Kindle is an application for reading electronic books. It takes advantage of the affordances offered by touch screens, including pressing and swiping on the screen. The app’s design is simple, with different operations completed by enabling modes through touching the screen. However, its simplicity does not translate to understandability.

  Medium is an online publishing platform launched in August 2012, having a mass of amateur and professional people and publications writing blog posts on it. The clean design quickly differentiates it from other publishing platforms and aggregates many professionals. This article is going to assess the design of medium IOS app using Don Norman’s

Fig 1.1 – Before signing into Netflix Netflix is a major streaming service that allows users to watch TV shows, movies, animations and more. It has so much entertainment that you can never say, there is nothing to watch. In order to use Netflix, the new user could start with a one month free trial

  Introduction IMDb or Internet Movie Database is a popular online database of information related to movies, TV shows, video games, awards, and events. The database comprises of information on production crew and cast, summaries, synopses, reviews and ratings, which millions of registered users consume daily. As per Google Play Store, there are over 100

  Sweat is a fitness lifestyle application created by Australian personal trainer Kayla Itsines. The app is based on her world-famous Bikini Body Guide (BBG) training program and her healthy meal guides. It provides workouts and meal planning all within a mobile device, acting as both a fitness instructor and nutritionist. This critique focuses on

Splitwise is an IOU managing application providing its users a hassle free method of splitting their expenses with family and friends. This cloud-based application eliminates the need to keep paper bills and helps in keeping a track of your debts in a simple ledger format. Based in Rhode Island, Splitwise makes the life easier as

This design critique is for the mobile iPhone application for Goodreads.com. Goodreads is a site that helps users keep track of which books they have read and those they want to read. This critique focuses on four different attributes of the app: the scanning feature, the search function, the “want-to-read” button, and duplicate editions. The

This is an in depth critique of the Apple Watch Series 2. Before owning my Apple Watch people (acquaintances or random people in everyday life) would often comment on my engagement ring. People would see my ring and ask a spectrum of questions ranging from the personal, “How old are you?!” to the superficial “How

A 2014 Tech Crunch article called it the devil. Why does it provoke such reactions?  Is it really that bad? Where did the menu even come from? First, a little history lesson. The menu debuted in 1981, as part of a system called the Xerox Star, a software package created to run on Xerox 8010