Zocdoc offers an online platform for patients to search and schedule appointments for medical or dental care. Although users can access the service through both a mobile app and a desktop website, this critique focuses on evaluating the Zocdoc app on an iphone, through the lens of concepts and principles introduced in Don Norman’s The […]
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The Kayak Android mobile app provides an easy way to find flights, hotel stays, and rental car services. Kayak excels at creating a clear conceptual model of how to set up and run a search, but not of the entire scope of the app’s features. A streamlined interface may also be a trade-off for invitations to human error. It is interesting to note that Kayak was one of the earliest exemplars of creating more usable graphical interfaces for travel booking, but now may be extending its feature list too far.
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Kindle app is a software that lets you download and purchase ebooks from Amazon Kindle Books, to read on most devices, such as Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android. It is extremely convenient for avid readers that wish to have unlimited books all stored in one device in which they can carry it around anywhere and
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Faced with the increasing number of users and user-created interactive experiences on the platform, the Smithsonian Learning Lab wants to understand how users interact with the platform’s primary feature: search.
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Introduction Whether a neighborhood, a college campus, a civil service program, or a well-attended Twitch channel, it’s hard enough already to move away from a community without fearing that you might lose touch with those you love once you leave. For many of us, beginning in March 2020, this worry came unexpectedly true as we
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This project was created and graded for INFO-643 Information Architecture & Interaction Design at Pratt Institute School of Information. PlatformMobile/Web RoleResearcher and Co-Designer w/ Sarah Tsao, Jing Peng, and Chris FerreraKey Project Framework: Research and Development, Information Architecture, Interaction, User Testing, Wireframing and Prototyping SoftwareFigmaInVisionUser-Testing.comOptimal WorkshopZoom Project Summary Music is a universal language. Most individuals
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Jenna Bucoli Tanenbaum is a Lead UX Designer at Ogilvy NY. I wanted to talk to her because I was interested in what it is like working at a global digital agency. I previously worked in advertising and marketing prior to my current role and switch to studying UX Design so was intrigued to hear
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Sleep Cycle is an alarm-like mobile application that helps users have a better sleep by relaxing them at bedtime, tracking their sleep and waking them up at the light sleep phase. This post reviews this application according to Norman’s Design Principles with the following tasks: play a sleep aid, set up an alarm and close
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Do you understand your mood throughout the day? “ Maybe or Unsure” is always a common answer. People are hardly recognize their own emotions, but nowadays our technology has been developed to recognize emotions and emotions began to become a major role in UX design process. What is emotion? According to the definition of emotion
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Microcopy might be a relatively strange term for many people. Even designers know what it means, microcopy is easy to be overlooked in the design process. However Microcopy is everywhere in our digital product. From the label on a call-to-action button, to the pop-up message on a certain interface, designers use it involuntarily as a
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