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.
Introduction The Urban Outreach Center (UOC) is a non-profit community organization focused on connecting homeless and low-income New Yorkers in East Harlem and the Upper West Side with food and other critical supplies. The UOC helps “nearly 50,000 vulnerable New Yorkers each year to move with dignity out of homelessness and food insecurity toward self-sufficiency.” […]
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This project was created and graded for INFO-643 Information Architecture & Interaction Design at Pratt Institute School of Information. PlatformMobile/Web RoleResearcher and Co-Designer w/ Sarah Tsao, Jing Peng, and Chris FerreraKey Project Framework: Research and Development, Information Architecture, Interaction, User Testing, Wireframing and Prototyping SoftwareFigmaInVisionUser-Testing.comOptimal WorkshopZoom Project Summary Music is a universal language. Most individuals
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Overview GrowNYC is a nonprofit organization that aims to improve New York City’s quality of life through environmental programs including farmers markets, conservation, and community education. This project aimed to redesign the GrowNYC website into an intuitive and efficient site. Platform Mobile Web; Web Team Three Pratt Institute graduate students; my primary roles include research
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INTRODUCTION PROBLEMS & OBJECTIVES For this project, our team — consisting of myself, Jiyoung Lee, Kate Nadel, and Ting Wang — analyzed the Chinati Foundation’s website activity and original video content from March 2020 to the present (early May 2021). The Chinati Foundation is a nonprofit contemporary art museum located in Marfa, Texas. Founded in 1987 by
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The Project This semester, our team executed a remote moderated user testing study to evaluate any obstacles and design challenges confronting mobile users of Mural Routes’ Mural Map of Canada. In all, our study involved six participants who were new to Mural Routes, to best understand the site from the perspective of novice users. Duration
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Introduction Monterey Bay Aquarium is an educational and environmental organization located in Monterey, California. While the aquarium is currently closed to visitors due to the pandemic, they have a number of cameras livestreaming certain exhibits to anyone around the world. The livecams are free and open to the public. The aquarium approached the Center for
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A team of 4 graduate students of experience design at Pratt conducted 8 moderated user tests to help improve a new website created by their client, Empire Clean Cities.
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CLIENTS:Cooper Hewitt Museum TEAM MEMBERS:Aimee ShiAlyssa BindaChelsea YipFariah Qasim PROFESSOR: Elena Villaespesa ABOUT THE PROJECTCooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is a design museum that has been bringing the innovative and experimental technology into museum’s collections, knowledge, and resources. Recently Cooper Hewitt aims to renovate their public application programming interface (API) section on their official website.
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ABOUT THE PROJECT The Cooper Union Library has served The Cooper Union community for over 160 years. With the recent redesign of their library website, the purpose of this project is to learn how users interact with the website and provide recommendations to enhance the usability and user experience. By using UserZoom Go, an online,
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