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The goal for this project was to run an evaluation of the Barnard Digital Collections portal and analyze its potential usability issues. The Barnard Digital Collections portal was created in 2014 to serve as the online home for Barnard’s archival materials and special collections spanning the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Our team was composed […]
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Introduction Since my first day at Pratt Manhattan Center, I’ve became a heavy user of the MicroMarket in our building. The market locates on the 7th floor of Pratt Manhattan Center , aiming to provide Pratt students with fresh snacks and beverages with self-checkout technology. By linking technology to users’ everyday activities, the MicroMarket has
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Introduction Participatory Design, also known as co-design or co-operative design is a creative approach that attempts to actively involve the stakeholders and end-users in the design process to ensure that the eventual solution meets their needs and is usable. In cases where the users feel that the products they use force them to adapt to
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People with learning challenges, such as dyslexic students and adults that have trouble reading, writing and spelling can benefit from an assistive tool, such as Grammarly. There are a lot of productivity tools that have spell-checked and grammar checks built-in and others that can be installed, but Grammarly takes it one step further. The digital
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Ava is an app designed to empower people who are deaf or hard of hearing. It allows them to follow conversations in real time. The app is available on AppStore and PlayStore, and is web optimisable as well. People with a hearing disability may find it challenging to keep up with conversations, especially in a
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Eventbrite.com is a website for event planning, management, and ticketing. Eventbrite provides users with multiple services. Users can browse events, buy tickets to participate in events and create their own events. Home Page > Search Events On top of the home page of Eventbrite.com, it is the navigation bar. The navigation bar has the affordances
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When I first started to explore New York City since moving there for graduate school in Information Experience Design, I was struck by how much this city had influenced my life even when I was halfway across the world. So many of the books I read, movies I loved and scholars and artists I followed
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In the Fall of 2019, five usability researchers worked with administrative staff in the Communications and Marketing department at Pratt Institute as staff prepared to roll out a digital asset management system to the broader Pratt community. Our clients were David Frisco, Director of Creative Services, Erica Dagley Galea, Project Manager, and a small team
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This usability test evaluated the Pratt Library website to assess the design overhaul that occurred last semester. Our client was Nicholas Dease, a librarian at Pratt Library, as well as the head of technology and website design and implementation. Particular emphasis was put on attributes that were requested by the client (attributes described below).
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Felicia, Nitya, Siddharth and I were assigned the client: The School of Visual Arts (SVA) Library. Phoebe Stein, the Digital Services Librarian, was our contact for the assignment. SVA has not done a major update to their website since 2015, so they were eager to test all corners of the website from many different perspectives.
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