VSCO is a photography mobile app, which offers in-app editing, image sharing, and community in one fully-functioning ecosystem. It allows users to capture photos and videos in the app and edit them, using preset filters and editing tools. VSCO is a place to find and share inspiration.
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Introduction Netflix is a membership-based subscription platform for streaming movies and TV dramas. It was founded in 1997. It profited solely by renting DVDs at the beginning, but today it is focusing more on providing online video streaming services. Netflix’s earliest subscription system began in 1999, and users could choose to pay different price subscription
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Introduction The Target app is an e-commerce site representing Target, a long-standing retail establishment based in North America. It contains features aiding both online and in-store shopping, such as order and pick-up scheduling, home delivery options, a barcode scanner and more. This post critiques the app in accordance with principles and concepts outlined in Don
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Pinterest is an image and social platform, with a bevy of features for an inspiring discovery. Users can share and discover visual assets, including images, Gifs, videos, pinboards, and shopping in various topics. This design critique is based on “the Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition” by Don Norman.
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Relay is an independent courier company who contracts directly with restaurants, liquor stores, among others. They manage all the delivery system for the restaurant through an app, and having the riders available all over the areas of operation. Thus, the riders can pick up the food and delivery it as soon as possible. Relay operates
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Forest is one of the most popular self-help mobile applications, which helps users focus and avoid distracting scrolling. The main idea is quite simple — users plant virtual plants that will grow during their selected focusing time. Exiting the app or stopping the timer will lead to a shriveled plant that cannot be removed from
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Zocdoc offers an online platform for patients to search and schedule appointments for medical or dental care. Although users can access the service through both a mobile app and a desktop website, this critique focuses on evaluating the Zocdoc app on an iphone, through the lens of concepts and principles introduced in Don Norman’s The
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Zoom became one of the most popular platforms for live video chat during the yearlong COVID-19 pandemic. Zoom is a video conference platform that connects users to online video meetings, webinars and live chat and can be used through a desktop computer or the Zoom mobile app. I will be critiquing the Zoom mobile app
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Notion is a productivity software, used primarily for project management and taking notes. It is an excellent tool for working in teams since the users can organize all of their information and projects in just one platform. It can be used by companies, students, or individuals who need a more efficient way to work. In
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In 2009, Google introduce machine-generated automatic captions to YouTube. These automatic captions are generated by machine learning algorithms, and allow YouTube creators to easily add captions to their videos. YouTube viewers can toggle captions on and off in video settings.
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