Spare Room is a roommate website for tenants to find roommates & rooms and hosts to rent out rooms in the UK and US. Its romantic target is to meet potential friends by sharing life.
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What is Apple Wallet? Apple Wallet is a build-in app on iPhone that help user organizes their credit and debit cards, transportation passes and tickets, identity cards, keys, rewards cards all in one place, and use them conveniently in daily life. In this article, I am going to use the design concepts proposed by Norman
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Reading is a fun diversion, whether it’s a riveting novel or an interesting blog post or a funny tweet. It becomes a challenge when you are sleep-deprived or in a noisy environment and it’s hard to concentrate. This simple activity poses an even greater challenge for people with cognitive impairments that affect their ability to read.
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Universe is the first website builder made for building websites from an iPhone. Universe is available on iPhone, iPad, and MacOS. Universe uses a Grid interface to allow you to drag and drop elements, “Blocks”, to create websites the palm of your hand.
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The curb cut is a work of assistive technology so commonplace that it is more a part of assistive infrastructure than a “product.” Curb cuts, those short concrete ramps found at just about every pedestrian intersection in the United States, provide a gentle slope from an elevated sidewalk to the street surface below. About 1
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Sephora for iOS was created to give it’s customers a new form of beauty e-commerce.
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Canvas has become a popular online resource over the past 10 years for schools and educators to help facilitate the learning experience. Students use Canvas to keep updated on courses, get and submit assignments, and keep track of grades while educators use it to post course material, assignments, and track grades of all students.
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Kurzweil 3000 is a text-to-speech software that emphasizes reading comprehension through a multi-sensory approach. When a user uploads a PDF document to Kurzweil, the software is able to transform the text into a customizable audio-track, change the font of the text to an OpenDyslexic font, and more. Text-to-Speech Features For most of history, reading was
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Notability is an application for note-taking and PDF annotation which is available on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Provided with multimedia tools, users can take notes, add images, draw sketches, or even record audio. This design critique will focus on the basic features of the iPad version of the app through a scenario where a user
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EazyHold was invented by three sisters who understood how important it is to maintain independence through adversity. With EazyHold you can easily accomplish all your daily living activities with independence despite physical conditions or disabilities that might be impacting your grip strength. Their patented EazyHold design gives children and adults the ability to hold onto
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