JAMIE RAYMOND DESIGN CRITIQUE: UBER iOS APP INTRO Having recently moved to New York from New Jersey, where everyone drives to their destinations, I have found myself using the Uber app more than ever. The convenience and navigational elements help me understand exactly what is going to happen during my trip (or at least make […]
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EveryDollar – Home Budgeting Made Easy EveryDollar is a home budgeting app, available for web and iPhone, that is designed to make money management easy. The app was created by The Lampo Group, an organization based around radio show personality and financial authority figure Dave Ramsey, who advocates a debt-free lifestyle for Americans. The
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Venmo is a mobile payment sharing application that allows people to transfer money from one user to another acting like somewhat of a digital wallet. In order send money, users must link their bank to Venmo so to off-load payments. It also acts like a social media platform in which people can ‘like’, ‘friend request’,
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Final Fantasy VI is a Japanese role playing game that was originally released on the Super Nintendo in 1994. In 2014, it was ported to iOS and now features a completely redesigned control scheme and UI. The design changes make the classic game compatible with the touch-based interface of modern phones. As video game design
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Goodreads.com is a site that allows users to keep track of books they have read as well as books they want to read. It also allows them to see what their friends are reading and offers the user recommendations to other titles based on what they have already read. Goodreads is also available as
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Calm is an app that aims to reduce anxiety and stress through guided meditations, nature sounds, and sleep stories. A wide range of preferences are accommodated: hurried users can quickly launch a 10-minute “Daily Calm,” while users seeking specificity can pursue 30-day programs centered around a particular theme. Named Apple’s 2017 App of the Year
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Insight Timer is the most widely used meditation app in the world and offers many features to support an online community practice. The platform connects thousands of global teaching practitioners with millions of meditators by providing access to free uploads of a variety of sessions. This app is for seasoned and novice meditators who seek tech
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About the Project This project was done in Pratt Institute’s Information Architecture and Interaction Design taught by Craig MacDonald. For this project, my group and I were given the task of redesigning the information architecture for Sesame Workshop (www.sesameworkshop.org) that would make the site’s interface much more user friendly, increasing its usability through improvements of
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The companies that focus on maximizing satisfaction, with regard to the entire customer journey, are more likely to increase customer satisfaction, loyalty and advocacy among their customers than companies that focus on parts of the business in a segmented way. In order to improve customer satisfaction, focus should be on the whole customer experience. Customers value the ability to be in constant and
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Everyone loves a good story, it’s how we connect and communicate with one another. Storytelling in user experience is no different. The benefits are more than just communicating and connecting with your audience – by approaching UX through the lens of a storyteller, one can significantly strengthen both the presentation as well as their
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