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.
School Project | INFO643 Information Architecture and Interaction Design | 15 weeks The challenge our class faces is to redesign the nycgovparks.org website. This website is the official website of the New York City Department of Parks & Reconstruction. Users can find information about parks and extra services such as permits, sidewalk repair, and so […]
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About Our Project The New Mexico History Museum tells the stories that made the American West, from the lives of indigenous Americans to Spanish colonists, the Mexican era, Santa Fe Trail merchants, the railroad, cowboys, outlaws, scientists, and hippies. The New Mexico History Museum’s website was chosen as a redesign project for the INFO 643
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ABOUT THE PROJECT The School of Visual Arts has been a leading educator in the field of art and design for over seven decades. With the recent redesign of their library website, the purpose of this project is to conduct, collect and analyze users’ feedback of the new site. Through remote user testing via zoom,
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SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS LIBRARY REMOTE USER TESTING PROJECT SUMMARY The School of Visual Arts (SVA) is one of the world’s most influential artistic communities. SVA knows the importance of delivering informational materials, both in-person and online. Their online presents have become more relevant, especially in this 2020 Covid 19 pandemic. The library section on SVA’s newly
We conducted the usability test by using Tobii Eye-tracking software to identify the usability issues of Nike.com.
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About This project was for The Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, Inc. via the Center of Digital Experiences at Pratt Institute. The NYC Archivists Round Table was founded in 1979 and is known as a nonprofit organization. Serving a diverse group of more than 400 archivists , librarians, and record managers in the
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Barnard Digital Collections offers students and researchers with a vast collection of digital archival material. It gives users free access to nearly 85,000 academic sources, including but not limited to newspapers, scrapbooks, photographs etc. No major design changes have been made to the website since its inception. The goal of this study was to test
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Problem: Our client Friends of Materials for the Arts wanted feedback on the functioning of their website. They very recently had redesigned their website and hence were not up for making dramatic changes. Their also wanted us to focus on functioning over the visual aspect. We were asked to suggest improvements for the websites organization
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We wanted to test the Pratt Institute Catalog website with some actual users Multiple iterations with the client and pilot testing helped fine-tune the process We developed our tasks such that multiple usecases were covered by the test in order to test out the broadest possible variations of the use of the website. The four
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Introduction The Canadian Museum of Nature is Canada’s national history of museum located in Ottawa, Ontario. Its mission is to enkindle the unforgettable connections and experiences with nature though engaging exhibitions, collections management, research programs, and engagement in a 21st-century global context. The museum also offers a fully bilingual dynamic in French and English of
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