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To begin with: An Introduction on 500px.com 500px.com is a website for both professional and amateur photographers to present, critique, sell, and purchase photographs or their service. Thus, because of the commodity here are high-quality photos and the selling process requires advanced knowledge on licensing, the website may target more experienced audiences. As a professional […]
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StockX has had what seems like a meteoric rise to success over the past several years, as it has combined two unique concepts that haven’t really been seen together before: consignment shop & stock market. In this design critique, I’ll be evaluating the StockX website against Jesse James Garrett’s book ‘The Elements of User Experience’.
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In the “Elements of User Experience”, Jesse James Garrett breaks down the user experience process into five elements or planes: strategy, scope, structure, skeleton, and surface. Today I will be critiquing Peloton’s website with these five elements in mind. Strategy: product objectives & user needs As Jesse mentions, this is the most abstract element. I
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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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A chatbot is an artificial intelligence that provides the conversational interface to aid users with a set of tasks through text or audio. It was first introduced in 1950. Alan Turing, an English mathematician and computer scientist, outlined the Turing artificial intelligence test in his paper “Computer Machinery and Intelligence” (Dermoudy, 2018). The recent blooming of
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In this blog, “Cookie” is not the term for the product that people can easily find in grocery stores. The term “Cookie” that I am going to talk about in this blog is a computer science term to describe a small piece of data sent from website and stored in user’s local drive by the
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