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Acceptance and rejection online

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

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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IxDA discussions…

Been very busy lately, unable to dedicate time out of my schedule to follow up all discussions. Though i haven’t contributed yet, am sure i will be a more active member in the future with loads of topics to discuss while i gain industry experience.
I wanted to keep track of certain links which were the topic of discussions, hence this post :-)

UI Designer for Ford Source Experience Planner

Design Research: Why you need it by Steve Calde Source Cooper

Spoonfed Photoshop’s Interface tutorials

Stop gathering requirements by Jeff Lash
Posted on May 6, 2008
Source How To Be A Good Product Manager

I bumped across a really good collective blog on User Research at Pathfinder Blog

Have you checked out Buzzword (Adobe then, Acrobat.com(beta) now!) yet? when it was in Preview mode they had a ‘Gandhi’ pic for the image icon, i thought it was really cool. But across cultures it would be unfair to idolise one man, though the father of our nation (India) it would be unfair to many unsung heroes. Post June 2, 2008 they have changed the image icon to a more generic image for user across different cultures, thats my opinion…

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