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: JetBlue Airways is a major American low-cost airline, and the seventh-largest airline in the United States by passengers carried. Three usability experts conducted an eye-tracking study to evaluate the effectiveness of the Jetblue Airlines homepage in helping travelers plan trips and adjust to COVID-19 travel regulations. Through evaluative user research, we hoped to answer […]
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A team of four researchers completed an analysis of Monterey Bay Aquarium’s website in order to provide the Aquarium’s digital team with recommendations on how to increase email subscriptions from its live-cam viewing audience. This research was completed for the Digital Analytics class at Pratt Institute taught by Prof. Elena Villaespesa. Project Overview client meeting
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About the Project New York City Park manages more than 30,000 acres of land. Their official website has not been optimized for mobile devices. New Yorkers’ increasing demand for public space when most residents need to stay home has changed the way users interact with parks. There are two primary stakeholders: The NYC parks website team
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Project Overview This usability study was conducted in collaboration with the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design museum to evaluate the current user experience of the Cooper Hewitt API. Our client at the Cooper Hewitt Museum wished to evaluate three stages of the user experience: API onboarding, API usage, and usage of response data. Our findings and
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The Project The Archivist Round Table website’s mission is to serve as an advocacy platform to: Raise awareness to the cultural preservation of materials by making things more accessible to the public. Influence court decisions on behalf of archives. Provide avenues for existing and aspiring archivists to share advice and best practices, and further their
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Back story This study was conducted for the Information Architecture & Interaction Design Course at Pratt Institute during Fall of 2020. The client New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (NYC Parks) New York City Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications (DoITT) NYC Parks manages more than 30,000 acres of land. The DoITT provides
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About This Project As a part of the Information Architecture and Interaction Design class at Pratt Institute, a research team of three students worked on a 16-week project to design a new feature for the NYC Parks department website, nycparks.org. This project was undertaken with two clients in mind: the NYC Parks and Recreation Department,
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About the Project The redesign of the New York City Parks & Recreation (NYC Parks) central navigation and ‘Find a Park’ feature was part of a project for Information Architecture and Interaction Design course at Pratt Institute in the Fall 2020. I worked on a team of three, tasked to design a mobile responsive website
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FALL 2020 LIS 643: Information Architecture & Interaction Design My Role: Product/Tech Manager Team Green: Zhichun Zhao, Jiae Oh, Nathalie Traikos Overview The nycgovparks.org is a website providing all information for parks and facilities under the reign of NYC government. Team Green is responsible for redesigning the website homepage for both desktop and mobile structures.
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Project Brief This project was for the Information Architecture & Interaction Design course. I teamed up with Ellen Connell and Jiyoung Lee to work on the project. Our goal is to reimagine a more user-centered find-a-park tool on the nycgovparks.org website. As well as redefining and reorganizing the navigation structure for the park’s website. Our
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