For the past year or so, I’ve been wearing a WHOOP band: the screen-less fitness band that measures strain, recovery, and sleep solely via a companion app. It’s a particularly compelling case study for Don Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things because WHOOP made a radical bet: take away the display and put all the
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Chipotle is a fast-casual restaurant that serves build-your-own Mexican inspired meals, including burritos, tacos, bowls, and quesadillas; and the app is designed to recreate the in-person ordering experience digitally. Don Norman, in his book, The Design of Everyday Things, argues that good design goes beyond aesthetics. An interface should have clear mapping of what a
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When you move away from traditional cable, switching to a web-based live TV service should feel simple and intuitive. For YouTube TV, a good desktop experience should make it easy to find and play a channel while clearly showing what’s playing or recording. YouTube TV brings familiar TV conventions into a clean digital interface, but a few design choices make basic actions more difficult than they need to be.
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Pokémon GO makes catching Pokémon feel intuitive, but its growing interface can make navigation and information harder to understand. This critique looks at how design principles from Don Norman and Nielsen’s usability heuristics reveal both the strengths and usability challenges of the game.
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Duxbury’s Braille Translating Software (DBT) allows for users to convert text to braille, making it useful for both braille users and non-braille users trying to make their content more accessible. The software is designed to be easy to use and supports translation for 180 languages.
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OneCourt is a touch-sensitive display device that enables blind or low-vision sports fans to experience live sports through touch (OneCourt, n.d.). The prototype uses the live data from the game to produce a physical representation of the field so users can feel the movement and positioning of players and the ball at their fingertips.
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Arc is an iOS, Android and desktop browser that provides a fresh take on the browsing experience . It reads across multiple websites and gives you a direct, sourced answer, while still letting you open and browse the actual pages. This critique goes through the app in the order a user actually experiences it: onboarding,
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Glasses are one of the most common forms of assistive technology. However, because they have become so commonplace in daily life, it can be easy to overlook the significant role they play in addressing vision impairment on a global scale as medical devices.
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Adobe Acrobat is a widely used application for creating, viewing, and editing PDF files. It’s the tool many professionals rely on to produce a final, polished version of a document, from students submitting assignments to teams finalizing contracts.
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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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