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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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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A Norman-Informed Critique of LinkedIn’s Mobile Job Search As an active job seeker, I regularly use the Jobs feature on the LinkedIn iOS app. With it being a primary tool used by professionals, I am often frustrated with its UI, and examining it through Don Norman’s framework gave me more clarity as to why. Through
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Measure is a pre-installed utility on the iPhone that enables users to quickly gauge the size of real-world objects, measure a person’s height, and automatically detect the dimensions of rectangles. This article critiques the Measure app through the lens of Don Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things, analyzing its interface against key usability principles. First
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Assistive Technology: Home Blood Pressure Monitors Nowadays, HBPM(house blood pressure monitor) has become a common part of everyday households, especially those with older adults or people managing hypertension. By enabling blood pressure measurement outside clinical settings, this kind of AT(assistive technology) devices support routine health monitoring and allow users to manage their well-being more independently
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Introduction I got my first pair of Apple AirPods about a week ago and while exploring its features, I was surprised to learn that they can also function as hearing aids for people with hearing disabilities, something that was also discussed on the first day of our digital accessibility class. This discovery was particularly intriguing
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Design Critique: Too Good To Go (iOS App) By Annie Huang / February 9, 2026 / Design Critique Too Good To Go is a mobile app designed to reduce food waste by connecting users with surplus food from local vendors at discounted prices, and has become a widely adopted platform for everyday sustainable consumption. This
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