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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by Julia Ahmad – September 13, 2022 “Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, serving us without drawing attention to itself. Bad design, on the other hand, screams out its inadequacies, making itself very noticeable.”
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Zoom became one of the most popular platforms for live video chat during the yearlong COVID-19 pandemic. Zoom is a video conference platform that connects users to online video meetings, webinars and live chat and can be used through a desktop computer or the Zoom mobile app. I will be critiquing the Zoom mobile app
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Libby is a reading app from Overdrive through which public library patrons can access digital content. Users sign into Libby using their library card, and are connected with the eBooks and audiobooks that their public library offers.
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NaviLens is an innovative navigation and labeling app specifically designed for people with visual impairments. By scanning the special tags generated by the systems, the users are able to get audio information on positioning and route guidance, empowering them to find their ways quickly and effectively.
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Tactile is a hardware product that converts any text into Braille. The braille reader has a refreshable braille display, scanning system, and OCR. With Tactile, a user can scan any printed document, such as mail, menu, or flyers, and immediately get the information back in Braille. Additionally, there is a companion app where documents can
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Dot Watch is a sleek, minimal wrist watch with a moving braille pin display for users who are blind or visually impaired. The watch can not only communicate time and date – it can also translate text messages, notifications, the names of incoming callers, and other text from an iOS or Android device.
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Introduction: While waiting for your train to arrive in Japan, you may notice bird chirping across the station. This birdsong is meant to be an audio guide to point the visually impaired towards the ticket gates and exits. Depending on the direction of the escalators, a different type of birdsong is being played – one
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