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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Made for OnePratt: A centralized digital portal created for students, staff, and faculty members of Pratt Institute to access various academic and administrative resources. Teammates: Avani Chandorkar, Christina Lu, Anisha Vonna, Julie Vo (me) My role: Research Planning, Moderated Usability Testing, UX Design Duration: 6 weeks Context about OnePratt ℹ️️ OnePratt is Pratt Institute’s central
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OnePratt is Pratt Institute’s centralized digital portal for academic, administrative, and campus resources. Over six weeks, our team conducted usability testing with students and staff to understand how users navigate the platform and complete key workflows. What began as an information architecture evaluation evolved into a deeper exploration of search, discoverability, and task completion, leading to recommendations that transform OnePratt from a collection of disconnected tools into a more connected and user-centered ecosystem.
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Team: Anli HuangHyun LeeSharron LouYuxuan Xia Roles: UX ResearchUX DesignUI DesignDesign StrategyInformation Architecture ToolsFigmaFigjamClaude Code + Design Project Overview The National Gallery of Art (NGA) is home to more than 150,000 artworks, archival records, and library materials. While the collection is expansive, navigating it digitally can often feel fragmented and overwhelming, especially for younger audiences
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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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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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