Google Hangout is a powerful communication platform that combines instant messaging, video chat, SMS and VOIP into one application. Google Hangout, coupled with its companion VOIP application, Hangout Dialer, is the most frequently used application on my smartphone. For those who are unfamiliar, VOIP stands for voice over internet protocol. Hangout integrates Google Voice, a […]

  Etsy is an online marketplace where people can set up digital shops and sell custom and self-made items. This critique is based on the customer’s perspective of purchasing an item through Etsy and is based on the online website and will not take into consideration the mobile app. This critique will review specifically the

GlobeSt.com provides the commercial real estate community with top stories, analysis, and industry trends. The majority of site users hold a title of CEO, CFO, or SVP. For the purposes of this critique, I am focusing on the responsive website, including specific features like menu, account sign in, and newsletter sign up. Discoverability & Feedback

Venmo is a payment app providing a frictionless way for friends to pay one another without ever touching cash with the added element of social sharing. The users off-load tasks with the bank to Venmo. This allows them to directly transfer money to another person. This PayPal owned app is basically a next generation checking

Apple Music is a built-in app in the iOS system, which serves to play downloaded music and videos, listen to broadcast radio, or stream music online with paid account. With downloaded or purchased items, users are allowed to manage and organize their collection in the app by creating playlists. Contents stored in the app are

Tayasui Sketches is a sketching app designed for mobile devices. It allows professionals and non-professionals to create digital illustrations through traditional drawing experience. By providing a set of realistic digital drawing tools and advanced features (e.g. layers), it greatly meets basic requirements for creating illustrations while giving more capabilities to users. Figure 1: showing layer

    In the final chapter of his book The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman says, “Fundamental needs will also stay the same, even if they get satisfied in radically different ways.” A dictionary has been a staple reference tool for learning in the modern age and its use today is a fascinating case

Spotify is a popular streaming music app, with both free and Premium paid plan options. With Spotify Premium, users can stream unlimited music, create and curate playlists, and discover new music all through the mobile app, available for both iPhone and Android through the corresponding app stores. Full access to Spotify is dependent upon either