Projects

What are IXD@Pratt students up to? Posts in this category showcase the great work our students do and highlight the many different tools, methods, and techniques students learn at Pratt.

Case Study: Improving the National Gallery of Art’s Website for First-Time Visitors

The National Gallery of Art draws nearly four million visitors a year to its stretch of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Most of those visitors are not art experts. They’re tourists, families, curious travellers passing through the capital, people who might visit once, who have a few hours, and who would really just want […]

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Redesigning Path to Make Career Transitions Feel Guided

Users understood the promise of personalization — but struggled to understand how Path was guiding them toward their goals. Through moderated usability testing and a redesign focused on onboarding, roadmap clarity, coaching trust and navigation, we reimagined Path as a more structured and confidence-building career journey. Basecamp A platform designed to guide career transitions often

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Improving Usability Across Onboarding, Roadmap and Career Support in Path

OVERVIEW A career-transition platform with strong vision but friction in execution. Path is a career-transition platform built to support individuals pursuing roles in software engineering, computer engineering, and related technology fields. It provides structured guidance, personalized learning roadmaps, coaching support, and job-search resources for aspiring tech professionals from students and self-taught learners to professionals switching

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Improving Clarity, Trust, and Navigation Across the Path App

Overview A platform built to guide career transitions Path is a platform designed to support users’ journeys from different stages of their career transition to tech roles. It promises a personalized roadmap, structured activities, and access to career coaching, all tailored to the user’s background, goals, and job search stage. Since the product is still

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From Confusion to Clarity: Reimagining OnePratt’s Homepage

Made for OnePratt: A centralized digital portal created for students, staff, and faculty members of Pratt Institute to access various academic and administrative resources. Teammates: Avani Chandorkar, Christina Lu, Anisha Vonna, Julie Vo (me) My role: Research Planning, Moderated Usability Testing, UX Design Duration: 6 weeks Context about OnePratt ℹ️️ OnePratt is Pratt Institute’s central

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Wikipedia Android App: Accessibility Audit 

Wikipedia has always represented something unique – a living, collaborative encyclopedia built by ordinary people, freely available to anyone on the internet. But when we began looking closely at the Wikipedia Android app, we started asking a harder question: freely available to whom, exactly? Team: Ammara Fatima, Robert Rivera, Yash Wake, Yu Ting Chiang, Carlos

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Converting Visitors To Leads: A Usability Study of cieTrade’s Website

cieTrade is a B2B enterprise software company serving the recycling and commodity trading industry. Their platform helps businesses manage inventory, track trades, handle logistics, and run accounting operations – all in one place. It’s a product built for a specific audience: traders, recycling plant operators, and small business owners who need everything in one place

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Soft Stop: Designing for Healthier Relationships With Technology

Team: Elizabeth Serjantov, Jasmine Chen, Manvi Tandon, Shaelyn ChenDuration: 6 weeks (April – May 2026) Project Type: INFO 651-01: Emotional Design Academic ProjectMethods: User Testing, Emotional Design Methodologies, User Interviews, Tools: Figma, Figjam, Google Meet Context & Background Soft Stop is a speculative mobile app that reconsiders digital well-being through the lens of emotional design. Rather than relying on rigid

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