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

Workflowy is a flexible digital notebook for students, professionals, and any person who wants to keep notes, to-dos, and information organized in a simple interface.  Using intuitive and easily discoverable interactions, Workflowy allows users to compress huge amounts of data into a series of small, collapsable categories.  Entire books, successful corporations, and households are made

    Budget Bytes is a frequently updated website filled with delicious and inexpensive recipes. This website encourages people to smart about their budget, while still allowing good quality and delicious food to be an every day part of life. Budget Bytes is an easy-to-use resource for a wide variety of budget friendly dishes that

  Seamless, an online food delivery website, allows you to order from over 12,000 restaurants that use their services to deliver food direct to your doorstep. The mission of the website is to cut contact between the user and the restaurant that often causes much aggravation. The website revolves around the user by attempting to