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Our team collaborated with Cooper Hewitt, the Smithsonian Design Museum, to enhance the digital accessibility for their permanent digital exhibit. “Incalculable Loss,” a memorial piece that tributes the 100,000 COVID-19 deaths was originally published by The New York Times. The museum’s challenge: create a more inclusive user experience without altering the integrity of the original […]
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Museums across New York City, the United States, and the world dedicate their resources to providing information to their patrons. To do this, museums have entered a world of digital collections and catalogs. These online resources are used by the casual viewer and a curious patron who has tumbled down a Reddit rabbit hole. These
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Rui Tian, Qingyang Xu (Kacey), Zhining Gu(Emily) Travel should be accessible to everyone. But for many people with disabilities, poorly designed websites create real challenges. During our accessibility evaluation of the Amtrak website, we identified 3 key issues that affect usability for people who rely on assistive technologies, have visual or cognitive impairments, and simply
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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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The NYT Cooking app is a recipe discovery and cooking guide developed by The New York Times, a popular American newspaper company with over 11 million subscribers. The app stands on its own apart from other NYT content, dedicated solely to helping users explore, save, and cook tested recipes from NYT Cooking editors, chefs, and
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Wanderu is a travel search platform for booking bus and train tickets across North America and Europe. It aggregates schedules and fares from various transportation providers, allowing travellers to compare prices and routes conveniently. With a streamlined process, users can purchase e-tickets online without needing to search multiple websites or apps.
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The Formula 1 application is the main app of the sport to track races in real-time and stay up to date with events. These updates include news, videos, and highlights of past, current and upcoming races during the season. Users can track teams, drivers and use the data from races to follow the sport closely.
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In Fall of 2024, Apple released its first built-in eye tracking feature as part of it’s suite of accessibility tools. This allows iPhone and iPad users with physical or motor disabilities to navigate their devices using only eye movement, without the need for external sensors or accessories. iOS devices are not known for being affordable,
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