A Design Critique of Beli: Restaurant Discovery and Social Platform

A Design Critique of Beli (iOS app): Restaurant Discovery and Social Platform

Beli is a restaurant discovery and social platform where users can track restaurants that they have tried, places that they want to visit, tag friends, and rank/review food. Beli’s design is modern and contains plentiful features for users not actively searching or reviewing food which makes it engaging. However, Don Norman’s The Design of Everyday

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Design Critique: CityMapper

CityMapper is a free public transit-navigation application, designed specifically to help people navigate complex urban environments like New York City. It combines the live data for the MTA subway, buses, LIRR (Long island rail road), Metro North, ferries and the PATH (Port Authority Trans-Hudson); and allows you to instantly compare your transit options and track

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Design Critique: Letterboxd (iOS App)

Introduction Letterboxd is a social platform centering around movies. Its main features are rating and reviewing movies, adding movies you wish to watch later into a “Watchlist,” and interacting with your friends’ reviews. This critique goes through these three main user flows and outlines how to improve them. Reviewing a movie The bottom navigation bar

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Design Critique: Translate (iPhone App)

Apple Translate is a built-in iPhone application designed to help people communicate easily across different languages. Users can quickly translate text or speech, while Conversation Mode supports real-time communication between two languages. The language swap button is a good example of signifiers, mapping, and feedback. The opposing arrows visually signify that the two languages can

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