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Professors, Students, History-Buffs Teach Us How to Improve Usability on the Norman Sicily Project Website

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We conduct seven remote moderated usability tests with the audiences that are the most targeted users of the Norman Sicily Project website: Scholars, Students, and people with a personal interest in the subject. We carefully matched user goals with pages of the site and found that there is room for significant improvements to usability on important pages to the site. All issues found relate to overall navigation and special site features.

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Creating a Clear and Accessible Online Experience for Girl Scout Volunteers

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The Girl Scout of Greater New York (GSGNY) website was in need of a redesign that would better cater to its most important audiences. Our team researched volunteer needs and how to create a streamlined information architecture for key website audiences. We created a new medium-fidelity prototype website for the organization. The redesigned site is much easier to navigate and use, and volunteers can now accomplish a very relevant on the site: find a volunteer-based event and apply for it.

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A flightpath drawn over a hazy landscape implies travel enabled by the kayak app.

Design Critique: Kayak (Android App)

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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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Humanizing Online Events and Donation Flows for NYC Urban Fellows Alumni Association

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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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Design Story: Aquarius Records Website

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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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