Relax or Stress?

Airbnb.com, booking.com, homeaway.com, and many other vacation rental websites have expanded the universe of what is available to travellers and what travellers expect on vacation. User experience and how users interact with a booking website and the vacation experience means that homeowners wanting to earn passive income need to be aware of who their users …

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Design Critique: Kindle Notebook Interface (PC app)

This critique evaluates the interface of Notebook function on Kindle PC app. The Notebook stores the following type of notes: bookmarked page, user’s written notes, colored highlights, starred highlights, and popular highlights from other users. Users can select from a drop-down menu to review their preferred type of notes. In addition, users can star or …

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Design Critique: The FOIA Electronic Reading Room of the CIA [website] (Or: Better Design as a Key Issue in Public Access to Government Information)

  The Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) FOIA Electronic Reading Room (www.cia.gov/library/readingroom) is a section of the CIA’s overall website dedicated to providing public access to CIA documents that have been released under Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and/or other information release mechanisms. This section of their website hosts a number of digital/scanned agency records and …

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Design Critique: Zillow (website)

  Introduction Zillow is an online real estate database, which aggregates content from multiple listing services across the United States and Canada. Users may search the site for home rentals, sales, auctions, and foreclosures. Features of the site include the ability to save searches with multiple criteria, save favorites homes, and share these favorites with …

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Design Critique: Fabulous – Motivate Me! (iOS App)

Fabulous is a science-based app, incubated in Duke’s Behavioral Economics Lab, that will help you build healthy rituals into your life, just like an elite athlete. Users can start by picking one of four Journeys: Feel more energized, lose weight, sleep better, or focus and concentrate better. With your goal defined, Fabulous will break down users …

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Principles of Designing for Multi-screens

Today, human live with screens, and most likely, with multi-screens. There are PCs, smartphone, tablets, TVs, smartwatches and more. People use them for different occasions or use them together. As a designer, I heard about terms like “mobile-first” and “responsive” a lot and have actually designed products across different platforms, while I found there is …

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Design Critique: Netflix app (Android version)

    Netflix is a streaming service which offers its users access to TV shows, movies and documentaries. Users have to subscribe to the paid membership plan, which enables them to watch offered content without commercials on different number of devices. Netflix delivers its services in many countries and adjusts its offer per country. Main screen The main screen …

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