Duolingo is an app that assists people to learn different languages in an interesting way. First, it makes users gain achievements, in a game way, when learning. Second, it is free for users to learn languages without a financial burden. Now, being a user since 2017, I am going to apply the concept of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” to critique this app (Web version).
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Training wheels are a pair of wheels attached to the sides of the rear wheel of a bicycle. Almost all of us might have used training wheels at some age to learn how to ride a bicycle. But is that it? Are training wheels just for training you to ride a bicycle? When I researched this topic, I learned so much about training wheels and their use beyond just teaching how to ride a bicycle.
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At CES 2019, Samsung Electronics introduced a new wearable device that was called “GEMS”. GEMS is a short version of “Gait Enhancing & Motivating System” and as the name suggested, GEMS is a wearable robot that helps people who need walking assistance, especially those who have weakened leg muscles or are in a recovering process
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Google sheets is a spreadsheet editor belonging to the Google Workspace collection of applications. Users may create, share, and edit spreadsheets simultaneously with other users for remote productivity and collaboration. While a mobile app now exists, here we’ll be focusing on the widely used web-based application through the lens of Don Norman’s The Design of Everyday
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Craft is a free note-taking application lauded for its minimalist interface. Through this application, users can create notes, organize documents, and search for specific documents or keywords. Furthermore, Craft’s block-based content structure enhances the note-taking experience by enabling users to create subpages, shift content around, and upload multimedia all within a note. Navigation Bar The
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The KWGT app helps customize your Android homescreen with many different widget apps that can be purchased on the google play store. You are able to customize each widget or create your own with unlimited possibilities and variations
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The Problem Background The Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network (DPOE-N) is a non-profit organization run by the Pratt School of Information and New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. DPOE-N provides financial and material support to professionals and institution in the cultural heritage preservation and museum fields to facilitate digital preservation and conservation. DPOE-N provides these services through
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In 2018, the Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network (DPOE-N) originally created by the Library or Congress in 2010, transitioned to Pratt Institute School of Information and New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. In 2020, they were awarded a two-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation with the a goal to
PROJECT OVERVIEW Seafood Watch is a project of Monterey Bay Aquarium that aims to spread knowledge about sustainable seafood and provides recommendations to businesses and everyday seafood consumers to reduce the negative impact of the seafood industry on the oceans. The new Seafood Watch website launched on 2nd December, 2020 and this project analyzes the
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PROJECT SUMMARY Ingenium (www.ingeniumcanada.org) is a a Canadian organization representing three museums: the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum. The purpose of this project is to help Ingenium achieve their objective of improving their analytics usage. The project scope included the development of
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