The newly redesigned news website for Pratt Institute provides information, ideas, stories, and updates across all Pratt Institute. This project utilizes Hotjar and Google Analytics to collect user data and understand user behavior to offer potential solutions to enhance and streamline the user flow and navigation on the Pratt News website.
Apple Books is an app used to read eBooks. As native app in Apple’s ecosystem, many people default to using Apple Books as it’s readily avalible and touts a minimalist interface. While it is simple to use and requires little learning, Apple Books still could use improvement in many ways. Apple Books has a skeuomorphic
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Poshmark is an e-commerce app that allows users to sell new or used fashion, home decor, beauty supplies and more in a social media like setting. It is available to users in the United States, Canada and Australia. This critique focuses on a Poshmark user looking to buy and sell items specifically on Poshmark’s iPhone
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Signal is a free cross-platform messaging application with features such as sending and receiving high fidelity messages, attachments, and participating in HD video calls and voice messages. Signal is a non-profit with a core focus on Data privacy and security, with no advertisement, and no trackers. In this assignment, I will apply concepts discussed in
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Discord is a communication service which allows users to chat, call, and share files and other media in one hub on the web or their desktop and mobile apps. Users can create or join existing servers, to which they can invite friends and open topic-specific chat threads as well as voice and/or video rooms to
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Crunchyroll is an anime focused streaming service that allows users to watch anime TV shows, read manga, and discover mobile anime-themed games. It has a vast library of animes to pick and choose from so that one will never be bored. Crunchyroll has a free version (where you have in-video ads), or the user can
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By Sara Almai Randonautica is a mobile phone application intended to be used as an aid for exploration. The application generates a random or pseudorandom set of coordinates, called a “point”, for the user, called a “randonaut”, to venture to. The point is generated based on a descriptor selected by the user on the homepage.
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Soundcloud is an “artist-first” open music platform for both listeners and music creators. With a global community of over 100 million users, SoundCloud focuses on emerging artists and less on mainstream music featured on apps like Spotify. The subscription based app become a popular platform for emerging and underground musicians to share their music or
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At a Glance Youtube is a video sharing and social media platform that has an app (on mobile devices) band is accessible through web browsers. It consists of three types of users: (1) Users who upload videos onto the platform for others to watch (2) Users who watch videos uploaded by other users (3) a
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Adobe Fresco is a digital drawing application developed by Adobe and released in November 2019. The app was created to provide a more ‘painterly’ experience for art-making on iPads, and to compete with similar apps such as Procreate. Eager to try out Adobe’s latest creation, I downloaded the app on its initial release date. Fresco
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