Design Critiques

Apple Music is a built-in app in the iOS system, which serves to play downloaded music and videos, listen to broadcast radio, or stream music online with paid account. With downloaded or purchased items, users are allowed to manage and organize their collection in the app by creating playlists. Contents stored in the app are

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

    In the final chapter of his book The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman says, “Fundamental needs will also stay the same, even if they get satisfied in radically different ways.” A dictionary has been a staple reference tool for learning in the modern age and its use today is a fascinating case

Spotify is a popular streaming music app, with both free and Premium paid plan options. With Spotify Premium, users can stream unlimited music, create and curate playlists, and discover new music all through the mobile app, available for both iPhone and Android through the corresponding app stores. Full access to Spotify is dependent upon either

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

    Budget Bytes is a frequently updated website filled with delicious and inexpensive recipes. This website encourages people to smart about their budget, while still allowing good quality and delicious food to be an every day part of life. Budget Bytes is an easy-to-use resource for a wide variety of budget friendly dishes that

  Seamless, an online food delivery website, allows you to order from over 12,000 restaurants that use their services to deliver food direct to your doorstep. The mission of the website is to cut contact between the user and the restaurant that often causes much aggravation. The website revolves around the user by attempting to

    The Frick Collection website is the digital hub for the museums on-line content. The website houses many features such as the Frick’s digital archives, reference library, and photo archives, including the Frick’s entire collection. Users can also find information about upcoming and current events, programs, exhibitions, as well as, a history of the

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,”