The goal for this project was to run an evaluation of the Barnard Digital Collections portal and analyze its potential usability issues. The Barnard Digital Collections portal was created in 2014 to serve as the online home for Barnard’s archival materials and special collections spanning the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Our team was composed […]
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Design Story: Urban Archive
Our mission this semester was to redesign the content management system (CMS) for Urban Archive, a technology nonprofit. Urban Archive partners with museums, historical societies, and other cultural institutions to bring their collections to life through an iOS app and, most recently, a web app. Digital assets are uploaded to the CMS, geolocated, and shared […]
Weekly Critique, MTA.info
The MTA’s new mobile website. Critiqued through the lens of Peterson, “Mobile and Beyond,” Learning Responsive Mobile Design. In July of 2018, the MTA launched a refreshing new take on MTA.info. The new site, which was designed in collaboration with customers, is currently in beta, which makes it an excellent subject for critique. I am […]
Weekly Critique, LastPass
In response to The Elements of User Experience, Jesse James Garret. Strategy LastPass was created to address the needs of Web users to create unique, complex passwords for all of the interfaces they use. Given the risks of having one’s passwords leaked in a security breach, best practices dictate that users avoid using the same […]