Archive for June, 2008

Monday morning usability blues

Posted by Kshipra in Usability on June 30th, 2008

As more applications are moving on to the internet, it is getting more challenging to create user experiences for the non-IT savvy people.

10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of is worthwhile read, found when i was browsing for more categories to be added to the customised usability checklist, while doing a Heuristic Evaluation of an application.

Thoughts on Interaction Design is added to my blog roll :-) , i have found Welie’s Pattern library extremely useful for UI patterns while designing for webapps.

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Acceptance and rejection online

Posted by Kshipra in Interaction Design, Usability on June 27th, 2008

How many of the people you know have email other than their names on it? I am sure you also know people who have ‘creative’ names for their email IDs. I’m sure they have their disadvantages to it. Most of the times the emails are considered as Spam by email engines to be subsequently filtered to the Spam/Junk folder. I’m sure many of my mails have ended up there :-P

For example: I add friends on chat, the chat engine (experience had with Gtalk) just displays my email ID and not my name. How would anyone who didn’t know that the email ID was mine accept me in the first place? I would first have to send them an email informing them about the email ID and then wait for their acceptance, just increasing my work load in my hectic lifestyle :-P

How about adding people on social networking sites? How do you know that the person you found had accepted or ignored your invitation? What if the person had not logged on since ages or was unable to retrieve his/her password; would you treat as a rejection?

In this hectic lifestyle do we really keep in touch with everyone we know? We just update our profiles to let people know we are alive and kicking!!

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Fun with Adobe Kuler part II

Posted by Kshipra in Design, Interaction Design, Web on June 10th, 2008

kulerI have graduated to 38 themes now :-)

‘the beach‘ being highly popular, 17 downloads and favorited by 7 members;32 downloads and favorited by 13 members (Updated June 24th 2008); with ‘Fresh‘ coming in second 8 downloads and favorited by 3 members.

‘Shades of Orange‘ , ‘Proteus‘ , ‘Proteus II‘ received comments from fellow members, it is always encouraging to get feedback.

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