Design critique with Jesse James Garret’s 5 elements: Pratt Institute Libraries

Back Story As a first time user, I was launched to the Pratt Institute Library unwittingly, via a copy and paste link from a course syllabus. With no prior introduction to this website, I thought to put it to the test against Jesse James Garret’s five elements from his book, The Elements of User Experience, …

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Weekly Critic on 500px.com

To begin with: An Introduction on 500px.com 500px.com is a website for both professional and amateur photographers to present, critique, sell, and purchase photographs or their service. Thus, because of the commodity here are high-quality photos and the selling process requires advanced knowledge on licensing, the website may target more experienced audiences. As a professional …

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Design Critique: Jesse James Garret’s 5 Elements in: kinnarps.com

What does Kinnarps do? Kinnarps is a Swedish product company that owns several brands(Kinnarps, drabert, MARTINSTOLL, etc.). Their core products are office products, education products and healthcare products. In their website, you can find all their products, each product details as well as how to purchase it through third-party dealer. They have a great organization …

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Weekly Crit: Peloton

In the “Elements of User Experience”, Jesse James Garrett breaks down the user experience process into five elements or planes: strategy, scope, structure, skeleton, and surface. Today I will be critiquing Peloton’s website with these five elements in mind. Strategy: product objectives & user needs As Jesse mentions, this is the most abstract element. I …

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Evaluation Story: Barnard Digital Collections

THE CHALLENGE I was part of an ambitious project to evaluate the desktop version of the Barnard Digital Collections website (based on user research), address critical issues, and provide recommendations to solve them. THE CLIENT – A POOL OF ARCHIVAL MATERIALS Created in 2014, the Barnard Digital Collections features materials from the Barnard Archives and Special …

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Evaluation Story: Barnard Digital Collections Website

Barnard Digital Collections offers students and researchers with a vast collection of digital archival material. It gives users free access to nearly 85,000 academic sources, including but not limited to newspapers, scrapbooks, photographs etc. No major design changes have been made to the website since its inception. The goal of this study was to test …

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Evaluation Story : Friends of The Materials For The Arts

Problem:  Our client Friends of Materials for the Arts wanted feedback on the functioning of their website. They very recently had redesigned their website and hence were not up for making dramatic changes. Their also wanted us to focus on functioning over the visual aspect. We were asked to suggest improvements for the websites organization …

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