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About Kitty Collector is a Japanese game built for cat lovers where users need to attract a variety of cats by placing food and goodies in their virtual home or garden yard. It is designed with a no-spend approach that encourages you not to use real money, instead relying on in-game resources to enhance your […]
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Amazon Music is one of the major music streaming platforms that competes for users’ attention in the digital musical landscape. It has significantly evolved over the past 5 years with around 55 million subscribers worldwide. Even though the interface feels cluttered its high-quality audio and cross device synching make it a strong competitor in the
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is an agency of the United States Department of Labor. Its website is home to labor and economic data and data tools available for public use. This article serves to critique the general accessibility and usability of the BLS Popular Series Data Retrieval Tool. Accessing Data Tools from the
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Highlighter Bookmarks highlight a line or sections of a text for the reader. It allows readers to focus on individual lines and keep track of their place on the page.
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Zoom now has a live transcription feature that creates real-time captions during meetings. Once the host enables it, participants can choose to view captions as subtitles in the meeting window, or open a full transcript in a side panel. Captions can also be translated, with support for over 36 languages through real-time translation. Features: 1.
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By Madison Magnani Landing Page Bright colors, clashing fonts, and navigation that felt like a guessing game turned this Pepups puppy site into more of a scavenger hunt than a helpful resource. Reading Don Norman’s Design of Everyday Things made it click why it felt so off. He talks about the classic stove knob problem,
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by Sisira Mondreti The Problem at Hand As an e-commerce platform that prides itself on being “human-centered” and “transparent,” Etsy’s user experience for new customers contains several points of friction and manipulation that contradict its brand values. My role on this academic project was as the sole UX designer and researcher, tasked with identifying these
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The NY Waterway app is a platform that allows users to purchase ferry tickets and access transportation information for traveling across the New York Harbor. It is mainly used by commuters, tourists, and residents who need a convenient way to buy tickets, check schedules, and find route information. For this critique, I will take the
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Workday is an all-in-one platform used for organizing various aspects of a company’s HR, finance, and IT departments. This design critique focuses on the experience of a job seeker applying for a job listing using the Workday Careers platform. As a landing page for users that come from a company’s main website, it’s important for
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Crunch, a popular NYC fitness chain, attracts thousands daily. Their app allows users to book classes, locate gyms, and manage memberships. This critique analyzes the app’s homepage using principles from Don Norman’s ‘The Design of Everyday Things’.
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