A remote moderated user testing case study with the Pratt Center for Digital Experiences and INFO644, Usability Theory & Practice. Cultural Legacy at the New York Philharmonic Digital Archives The New York Philharmonic’s history spans over 180 years and their Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives includes a catalog of over 6 million pages […]
ROLE UX Research, Data Analysis, Presentation Editing TEAM Ariella Brown, Johna Shi, Samika Rastogi, Shubhangi Singh TIMELINE Sept 14, 2022 – Oct 12,2022 Overview Staten Island Hunger Task Force is a non-profit organization committed to resolving the issue of hunger on Staten Island by connecting food pantries to community members and government resources. Our goal
About This usability evaluation was conducted by a team of 5 graduate students in a Usability Theory and Practice course at Pratt Institute during the Spring 2022 semester. Our client, the Friends of Crocheron & John Golden Park is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide stewardship over Crocheron & John Golden Park in
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THE PROBLEM Our client: Nat Roe (executive director @ Flux Factory) Who we are: a group of 5 graduate students attending an usability course at Pratt Institute. Problem: choosing which area of Flux Factory’s website to test out. Flux Factory is a mainly not-for-profit arts organization (see Figure 1) aimed at providing emerging artists with
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Chapter 1: The Problem The Client Our client was Engram. Engram was founded by Priscilla Cancar. The Evaluators Our team was comprised of four graduate students enrolled in the Fall 2021 INF0644-03: Usability Theory and Practice course taught by Dr. Elena Villaespesa at the Pratt Institute School of Information in Brooklyn, New York. The Product
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Discord is a communication service which allows users to chat, call, and share files and other media in one hub on the web or their desktop and mobile apps. Users can create or join existing servers, to which they can invite friends and open topic-specific chat threads as well as voice and/or video rooms to
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By Sara Almai Randonautica is a mobile phone application intended to be used as an aid for exploration. The application generates a random or pseudorandom set of coordinates, called a “point”, for the user, called a “randonaut”, to venture to. The point is generated based on a descriptor selected by the user on the homepage.
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Among all of the online education website, I’ve tried several and even they’re focus on different trajectory, the one that hooks me and motivate me to complete is Coursera which delivering a very “flow” experience. User-centered design employs empathy and in turn increases satisfaction of the end-users. This design critique will be using Norman theories from “The Design of Everyday Things” to analyze the good and bad designs Coursera utilizes.
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What is venmo? Venmo is a mobile application that helps you to pay and request money from your friends. At its core, Venmo provides a social way to pay your friends when you owe them money and don’t want to deal with cash. mY GOAL The goal was to pay $100 to Lillian Yang. I
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Kaave is a fortune telling app based in Turkey that works by reading Turkish coffee cups – which is usually done to spark conversation and gossip. This article will evaluate the IOS version of the Kaave app, based on the usability principles discussed by Donald Norman, in his book: The Design of Everyday Things.
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