Design Critique: Canopy

Get Canopy For many New York City dwellers, winter is marked by the notably hot, dry air emanating from their apartment radiator, sparking a renewed online search for a humidifier that is effective, easy to use, and hygienic. Canopy, a new humidifier designed specifically to eliminate the mold that commonly grows in humidifier tanks, is […]

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Design Critique: Waze

Empathetic design. Empathy is defined as the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference. Empathetic design integrates this mindset of placing oneself in another’s position into the design of products. In this design critique, we’ll look at the navigation application, Waze, and how they’ve incorporated empathetic design

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A Conversation with Matthew Williams, Lead UX Designer at Wikimedia

Recently, I talked to Matthew, a Lead UX Designer at Wikimedia who works on the Structured Data team. Wikimedia, or what Matthew and his colleagues call “the Foundation,” is the non-profit organization that owns the internet domain names of many movement projects and host sites like Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.

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