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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is North America’s largest transportation network, serving a population of 15.3 million people in the 5,000-square-mile area fanning out from New York City through Long Island, southeastern New York State, and Connecticut. In 2020, MTA updated their Train Time App of both LIRR(Long Island Railroad) and MNR(Metro-North Railroad) to improve their […]
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Kaave is a fortune telling app based in Turkey that works by reading Turkish coffee cups – which is usually done to spark conversation and gossip. This article will evaluate the IOS version of the Kaave app, based on the usability principles discussed by Donald Norman, in his book: The Design of Everyday Things.
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Trip Advisor is a tool that allows users to explore and book travel experiences. Although travel hasn’t been in the books during the pandemic, the website is reminiscent of better times. On a brighter note, it does provide ideas of places one can go by car that are near their local town. At first glance,
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Empathetic design. Empathy is defined as the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference. Empathetic design integrates this mindset of placing oneself in another’s position into the design of products. In this design critique, we’ll look at the navigation application, Waze, and how they’ve incorporated empathetic design
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YogaGlo, or Glo, is an online subscription service offering yoga, meditation, and Pilates classes and programs that match a user’s “level and interests.” With over 4,000 classes available on their platform, YogaGlo supports user wayfinding to a desired course through establishing and following: Organization systems Labeling systems Navigation systems Searching systems For the purpose of
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Okta is a secure enterprise-level, identity management service that connects a person with any application on any of their devices. Built for the cloud and compatible with a number of apps, it enables a single sign-on (SSO) login experience for its users while ensuring information is secure for the user’s organization. Sign In A user can
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The United States-based Bookshop is an ecommerce intended to help independent bookstores assert themselves online and reinforce their market share in the book industry, which has long been under Amazon’s influence.
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Facebook is popular and one of the largest global social networking platform. With Facebook accounts, users can communicate with others, sharing multimedia messages, and having Second-hand transactions. This blog post will focus on three features of Facebook—the navigations, the timeline, and the Marketplace. Facebook Navigations After logging in, users can automatically see their Navigation Bar is at
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