Chrono24 is an online marketplace for luxury watches. It hosts buyers, professional dealers and private sellers across the world, and showcases new, used and vintage products. For the purpose of this critique, I will be considering the user as a potential customer with average technology experience who may use the app to find watches they […]
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Nibble is a microlearning app offering short, interactive lessons across topics ranging from math to art, designed to help users learn more in manageable, bite-sized sessions. This critique examines the journey of a young, full-time professional with limited free time who uses Nibble to replace doomscrolling with meaningful learning. Drawing on Don Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things and Jenny Davis’s How Artifacts Afford, this analysis explores how the app’s design enables the user’s goal of building a daily learning habit within a hectic routine.
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WEBTOON is a mobile-first serialized comic platform built around vertical scrolling storytelling. Its original conceptual model resembled a digital library of episodic stories updated weekly. Today, the system image presented to users is far more complex. It blends characteristics of: a streaming platform (ranks, trending), a social media feed (comments, algorithmic recommendations), a freemium game
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Are.na is a visual bookmarking and knowledge-curation platform that lets users collect images, links, text, and files into organized “channels.” It’s built for researchers, creatives, and thinkers who want a distraction-free alternative to Pinterest or Notion — without ads, algorithms, or social noise. Meet Maya Maya is a 26-year-old graduate student in landscape architecture. She
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Do you struggle to complete everyday tasks such as doing laundry or drinking enough water? Do you wish you had someone to keep you accountable for self care goals like journaling or daily yoga? An app you may consider to help you with these items is Finch, a self-care pet app that encourages users to
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Transit is a mobile app that helps people commute around their city using public transportation. The app provides transit arrival time, alerts for delays and disruptions, suggested routes from point A to B, and allows users to compare transit options and save their favorite trips. For this critique, I evaluate the Transit app through the
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Chronic Insights is an empowering tool for individuals hoping to uncover patterns and insights in their health journey through tailored charts and analysis of symptoms, triggers, and medical concerns. The app offers flexibility through a wide range of support features designed to accommodate users’ needs without data collection. Through Chronic Insights, users can track and
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The United States Census Bureau offers the public the ability to search, filter, and download data collected by the bureau during the decennial census and other, more frequent surveys, such as the American Community Survey. The United States Census Bureau’s data repository at data.census.gov is a website that hosts the data collected by the bureau during the
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Uber Ride is a location-based mobile service that allows users to request on-demand transportation. Riders input a destination, compare fare estimates, confirm pickup, and track their assigned driver in real time. The system manages identity verification, route monitoring, and digital payment from request to drop-off.
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When we hear the word controller, most of us picture a standard device designed for two hands, with small buttons demanding precise motor skills. But not everyone interacts with games in the same way. The Proteus Controller by Byowave rethinks this “default” through modular design and customization, supporting more accessible play. Feature 1: Modular, Reconfigurable
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