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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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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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