Linkedin is a networking platform that connects professionals across various fields and doubles as a job portal with thousands of opportunities posted every hour with 310 million active users every month (source). This critique focuses on the iOS app in dark mode, app version 9.24.2093
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Rover is an iOS app that allows users to find trusted caretakers for their pets. The services include doggy daycare, dog walking, drop-in checks, and pet sitting. The primary core functions of the app are its use as a messaging platform between customers and sitters and its booking capabilities. Overview While Rover is not the
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Forest is one of the most popular self-help mobile applications, which helps users focus and avoid distracting scrolling. The main idea is quite simple — users plant virtual plants that will grow during their selected focusing time. Exiting the app or stopping the timer will lead to a shriveled plant that cannot be removed from
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Slack is a messaging platform used by many companies and organizations to help facilitate communication and collaboration among groups of people. It offers a wide variety of features and functions such as sending pre-scheduled messages, recording audio clips, setting up small meeting sessions, and integrating popular apps.
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Zocdoc offers an online platform for patients to search and schedule appointments for medical or dental care. Although users can access the service through both a mobile app and a desktop website, this critique focuses on evaluating the Zocdoc app on an iphone, through the lens of concepts and principles introduced in Don Norman’s The
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Reminders app helps people remember things they can easily forget, such as grocery lists. It gives users interface with daily checklist without making any additional effort. Throughout this blog, I will review the Reminders app in correlation with Don Morman’s ‘Characteristics of good design’, mentioned in his book “The Design of Everyday Things.”
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Apple Books is the default ereader provided by the Mac OS and primarily supports ePubs and iBooks. It allows the user to add downloaded books, track reading progress, set daily reading goals, purchase new books and more. Personally, I have been using it to read books and it is my preferred choice for a ereader.
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AllTrails is a fitness and travel app for outdoor activities like hiking, biking and climbing. It provides users with trail guides to find their most suitable trails, navigate along the way and keep tracking their routes. This critique will focus on one of its key functions, trail navigation.
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The Kayak Android mobile app provides an easy way to find flights, hotel stays, and rental car services. Kayak excels at creating a clear conceptual model of how to set up and run a search, but not of the entire scope of the app’s features. A streamlined interface may also be a trade-off for invitations to human error. It is interesting to note that Kayak was one of the earliest exemplars of creating more usable graphical interfaces for travel booking, but now may be extending its feature list too far.
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For any juror summoned to serve in New York State, the NY Court website is the main artery through which one can uncover information about serving on a jury (or find any other court-related information.) This includes critical updates about whether or not one is called to serve on their expected summons date, or whether they are dismissed from being summoned.
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