Design Critique: Tayasui Sketches Pro (iPad app)

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

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Design Critique: Workflowy (browser)

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

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Design Critique: The Frick Collection-Website

    The Frick Collection website is the digital hub for the museums on-line content. The website houses many features such as the Frick’s digital archives, reference library, and photo archives, including the Frick’s entire collection. Users can also find information about upcoming and current events, programs, exhibitions, as well as, a history of the

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A Redesign Proposal for the Voorheesville Public Library Website

In order to propose a redesign for the Voorheesville Public Library’s website, we conducted a user-centered review, test, and analysis of the information architecture and interactive design of the site. It appeared to be clogged with duplicated content in an overly complex structure, and was not adapted for mobile. Our goals were to conduct research

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Why Governments Need to Look Beyond Digital Experience Design, and Embrace Interdisciplinary ‘Service Design’

Over the past five years, federal, state and local governments have demonstrated their growing realization that good design can have a tangible impact on citizen engagement and public service delivery. Initiatives like the creation of the NYC Digital Playbook, a digital experience design guide for New Yorkers, and Usability.gov are evidence that governments are taking

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