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.
Overview The Urban Fellows Alumni Association is a non-profit organization for the former participants of the New York City Urban Fellows Program. While the organization aims to sustain a network of alumni to support them socially and professionally, its current website doesn’t align with its goals. This project’s goal was to create a sense of community […]
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Cameron Dudzisz: Case Study, Task Co-Writer, Testing Co-Moderator Usability Study by Cameron Dudzisz, Cathy Hu, Eesha Parasnis, & Sharon (Yuxin) Tao, prepared for Nicholas Dease & Pratt Institute Library For full report, please click HERE. Abstract The Pratt Institute Library is a vital resource for students, and the database search tool its supportive spine. Supplied
Overview The Henry Ford Innovation Atlas is a web-based mapping tool that aims to help users investigate factors affecting innovation and invention in the education system. It also provides solutions and resources to bridge these innovation gaps. Client’s Goals Enhancing the usability of the tool Magnifying the discoverability of different features across the tool Through remote moderated usability
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👩🏻💻 Roles Researcher for discovering potential usability issues. Designer for proposing actionable recommendations and presenting with mockup. 🛠 Method & Tools Methods: Moderated User Testing, Screening Questionnaire, Rainbow Sheet, SUS. Tools: Figma, Zoom, Excel. 💪🏻 Collaborators Shan Chang Sacchit Vartak 🗓 Project Duration Oct 27, 2021 – Dec 15, 2021 Overview Kazani Beauty is a
The Henry Ford Foundation’s Innovation Atlas is a data based map that shows how innovative an area is so that programs can be focused in underperforming communities. To prepare for the launch of this site early next year, a moderated user test was preformed which found five significant usability issues with the site and created recommendations to solve these issues.
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Overview The Manhattan Community Board 3 (CB3) plays an important role in dealing with the welfare of the community of Chinatown and the Lower East Side. To improve the engagement between residents and community members, we redesign the CB3 website and focus on the experience of issue report service on the site. 👩🏻💻 Roles Researcher
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Project Brief: This case study describes a semester-long client project my team and I worked on for Information Architecture and Design, a graduate-level course at Pratt Institute during the Fall 2021 semester. For this project, we were tasked with redesigning Community Board 3’s (CB 3) website as well as coming up with a tool focused
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Client Brief Community Board 3 is a resident board located in downtown Manhattan which has an important advisory role in land use and zoning matters, City budget, municipal service delivery, and many other matters. There were two objectives for redesigning the website. One is restructuring CB3 Website and the other is designing a feature of
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It has been almost two years since COVID hit the U.S. Although restaurants and grocery stores have started to open, we can’t deny that online grocery and delivery services have become a part of our lives, especially when working from home. According to Brick Meets Click and Mercatus, approximately 50% of U.S. households (63.8 million)
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