Project Summary Our team, 5 graduate students at Pratt, conducted 10 remote moderated user tests to help improve Urban Outreach Center (UOC) website experience and usability. Duration March-May Team: Zhuolan Zhang – MS Information Experience Design, Pratt Institute Orville Mo-He – MS Information Experience Design, Pratt Institute Monica Hersher – MS Data Visualization Design, Pratt […]
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Project Overview This usability study was conducted in collaboration with the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design museum to evaluate the current user experience of the Cooper Hewitt API. Our client at the Cooper Hewitt Museum wished to evaluate three stages of the user experience: API onboarding, API usage, and usage of response data. Our findings and
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Google Meet is a digital video conferencing application that allows users to join and/or host meetings from remote locations. While steadily gaining popularity over the years, digital conferencing platforms such as this became a standard and daily practice for businesses and education alike when the Covid-19 pandemic began to sweep across the United States. Almost
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THE CHALLENGE I was part of an ambitious project to evaluate the desktop version of the Barnard Digital Collections website (based on user research), address critical issues, and provide recommendations to solve them. THE CLIENT – A POOL OF ARCHIVAL MATERIALS Created in 2014, the Barnard Digital Collections features materials from the Barnard Archives and Special
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About This project was for The Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, Inc. via the Center of Digital Experiences at Pratt Institute. The NYC Archivists Round Table was founded in 1979 and is known as a nonprofit organization. Serving a diverse group of more than 400 archivists , librarians, and record managers in the
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How Does Empathy Work With Research Ethics? In order to understand ethics we must first take a look at what empathy is and what it’s not. Empathy is not pity and it does not exist in isolation. Empathy is collaborative and interactive as you have to first find out how to let go and dance
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TikTok is a social media app for creating and sharing videos for 500 million users around the world. TikTok users can utilize various video editing features to create videos such as filters or background soundtracks within a quick time. This Tik Tok (Android Version) design critique will be evaluated based on Norman (The Design of
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In today’s digital world, creating interfaces that are user-friendly and understandable is indispensable, making usability testing and identifying usability concerns a crucial part of the process. Amongst many, eye tracking has gained popularity over the past decade. A method wherein a participant’s eye movement is tracked with almost no direct contact with the tester. A
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