I interviewed a UX designer who is working in a cloud computing company which is providing services to other enterprises. The interview lasted for 18 minutes, from the interview, I learned how a UX designer work in a typical day, what’s the role of a UX designer in his company, the challenges a UX designer […]
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In 2016 IoT(Internet of Things) is not an unfamiliar term: Amazon Echo TV commercial airs on prime time. You can find Nest Protect (smoke alarm) easily at an end aisle of Home Depot. Even if there will be some challenges for IoT to be more mature, as smartphones prevailed our lives in a flash,
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http://autismfriendlyspaces.org As I have mentioned in the past, I was part of a special organization called Autism Friendly Spaces. This organization specialized in helping certain organizations cater to people who are on the Autistic Spectrum. The tools at their disposal include task managers, rooms designated for quiet time, toys to help those who need something
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Various usability testing methods exist for a variety of different insight- and data-gathering needs. Selecting a method should be tailored to the specific research needs of any particular individual or team, and dependant upon the current stage of their project. I decided to focus specifically on 5-second tests and one tool in particular, from UsabilityHub.com.
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Introduction Early last week, urban planning think tank TransitCenter tweeted a data visualization that presented a befuddling statistic: despite NYC’s growing population and record subway ridership, MTA public bus ridership has plummeted nearly 16% since 2002. TransitCenter’s research indicates that this remarkable decrease in ridership is a symptom of the “declining quality of bus service,”
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Figure 1. Amagansett Free Library homepage. Click to expand. The desktop site for the Amagansett Free Library, as well at its mobile counterpart, inform users of the services, resources and events available to them as patrons of the library. Issue 1: Lack of a navigation bar across all pages leads to poor discoverability As
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The New York Public Library (along with most libraries) has wrestled with the challenge of providing an intuitive process for lending e-books. To bridge this wide gulf of execution, they recently released SimplyE, a mobile app that aims to drastically minimize the steps needed to fulfill the goal of accessing e-books from the near 300,000
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MTA’s Subway Time smartphone application provides real-time arrival information for a select number of New York City subway lines. The app utilizes existing countdown clocks to display multiple arrivals for both directions of each line. Despite its limited functionality, Subway Time allows frequent riders to plan their commute. The design issues and proposed improvements highlighted
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MLB.com At Bat is the official app of Major League Baseball. It delivers real time game information and MLB related stats by text, images, and video clips to users of the mobile app. Even though this app deals with a large amount of data, it is amazingly well organized. Despite its many advantages, At Bat
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The effective of user interface design should be visualize and inclusive, it will bring the user a feeling of control. The user could understand what they could do through the website and how to manipulate just using the direction through website. The website IOTORAMA is designed by Alpha-ville, which is a London based creative studio.
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