What if you could listen to art? Kandinsky explored the relationship between painting and music throughout his work. Inspired by his ideas, this experiment by Chrome Music Lab lets you turn your drawings into sound.
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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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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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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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