Design Critique: Strava for iPhone

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Strava is an exercise tracker app and social networking tool in one. Users can track their own activities, like and comment the activities of their friends, join groups and complete challenges. Strava’s goal is to provide an easy way to track your activities and see your progress while also allowing you to join groups of likeminded exercisers and encourage your friends.

In this design critique, we’ll examine the user journey for starting an activity in the Strava iOS app.

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Design Critique: Toddle – Teaching & Learning platform

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Toddle is an all-in-one platform that simplifies curriculum planning, project and portfolio management, assessment and reporting, and online learning. It provides a comprehensive suite of tools to help educators and administrators manage the curriculum development process. The website designed by Toddle is a great example of good design that follows many of the design principles outlined by Don Norman in his book Design of Everyday Things.

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Improving the usability of Staten Island Hunger Task Force mobile site

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To begin with, after talking to the client, we found that there are some signs of usability problems, such as people emailing the Staten Island Hunger Task Force asking how to donate when the information could be found on the website. The client was helpful and told us that if we have any problems or

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Customisable Affirmations? See how health and wellness enthusiasts guide discoverability of features helping improve the app’s usability

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Introduction TUNE IN AFFIRMATIONS Developed as a passion project by the client, Tune In Affirmations is a customisable positive affirmation iPhone/Ipad app which provides the users with audio content of positive affirmations under distinct ‘focus areas’. The app stands out among its competitors as it allows the users to customise their listening experience under various

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Sharing the Stories of Chinatown Businesses Through a Redesigned Website Experience for Made in Chinatown

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Project Overview: This project was a team effort as part of the “Projects in IXD” coursework at Pratt Institute. We worked with the non-profit “Made in Chinatown” over 4 months to redesign their e-commerce website. The main goal of the website redesign was to drive ecommerce sales through an information architecture and visual design that

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Helping Big Reuse Advance NYC’s Sustainable Urban Environment with UX Research

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Client Overview Big Reuse is a non-profit organization that runs multiple circular economy programs in the New York City area to “divert waste to landfills and reduce greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere.” Their website was created in order to communicate the organization’s story and mission, update their activities, and call for donations from the general

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