The New York Times Crossword app is available on iOS and Android and provides daily crossword puzzles that vary in size. The options are the mini and daily crosswords, the mini can be completed quickly while the daily is much larger and (in my opinion) more difficult. The critique will be focused on the mini, […]
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Pinterest is an image sharing platform designed to enable saving and discovery of information on the internet using images, animated GIFs, and videos, in the form of pinboards. Within the app, users can freely search for any visuals related to their keywords. It is a common tool for designers to create mood boards and a
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Are.na is a popular visual organization tool to publicly or privately curate and search for creative content online. With an Are.na account, users can collaboratively build collections and connect blocks of digital material such as text, images, and URLs. This design critique focuses on the Are.na iOS app on an iPhone. 1.Adding content The action
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Kaave is a fortune telling app based in Turkey that works by reading Turkish coffee cups – which is usually done to spark conversation and gossip. This article will evaluate the IOS version of the Kaave app, based on the usability principles discussed by Donald Norman, in his book: The Design of Everyday Things.
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Slack unifies all the services needed for a team to communicate efficiently and effectively. It supports tools such as one-on-one direct messaging, calling, and topic-based group conversations, while making it easy to incorporate other administrative apps and share files in all communications. Getting Started When a user logs into a new workspace, they are greeted
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The Project This semester, our team executed a remote moderated user testing study to evaluate any obstacles and design challenges confronting mobile users of Mural Routes’ Mural Map of Canada. In all, our study involved six participants who were new to Mural Routes, to best understand the site from the perspective of novice users. Duration
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Introduction Monterey Bay Aquarium is an educational and environmental organization located in Monterey, California. While the aquarium is currently closed to visitors due to the pandemic, they have a number of cameras livestreaming certain exhibits to anyone around the world. The livecams are free and open to the public. The aquarium approached the Center for
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A team of 4 graduate students of experience design at Pratt conducted 8 moderated user tests to help improve a new website created by their client, Empire Clean Cities.
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CLIENTS:Cooper Hewitt Museum TEAM MEMBERS:Aimee ShiAlyssa BindaChelsea YipFariah Qasim PROFESSOR: Elena Villaespesa ABOUT THE PROJECTCooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is a design museum that has been bringing the innovative and experimental technology into museum’s collections, knowledge, and resources. Recently Cooper Hewitt aims to renovate their public application programming interface (API) section on their official website.
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