my Bus ride on the 500K volvo

Posted by Kshipra in Usability on November 17th, 2008

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I believe i have the average height of an average Indian female. Now, standing inside a bus, can be pretty painful if your hand just reaches when you need to hold and you got to painfully stretch your hand and stand!

I shifted from my 2-wheeler to opt for the comfy ride of the Volvo from work to home, (also due to stress & hyper-tension caused by the honkers and the undisciplined traffic!) but Bravo! to the traffic cops and volunteers, they are doing  us a big favor by managing the ever-growing mammoth traffic in Bangalore.

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my antics at the XYi atm

Posted by Kshipra in Interaction Design, Usability on November 17th, 2008

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Do you get nervous standing being a first timer at a different bank’s ATM thinking about how the interface will be like (hoping the same as your old bank’s ATM interface) & how you would take out the cash with ease and take pride that you would have taken the least time inside the ATM than any of the members of the queue?

OK…i’m in, now what? i swipe the card, then i look at the monitor….stare to figure where to ‘touch’…i realize unlike  PIPIP bank’s ATM there is no buttons alongside the monitor, should i press the numbers or should i touch the monitor?….yes it is the monitor…..boy, if they were recording me on the security cam, i’m sure they would have had a blast!! and i’m taking more time than usual!

People behind me might think what a ‘dork’ i am….keeping them waiting. The information architecture is similar so i have no problem navigating and then i do the needful of withdrawing the cash.
Now my dilemma is, am i out the system? (it is very clear in my previous bank’s ATM) what if i am not logged out? i can’t figure out from the screen because it is showing me something that i cant seem to comprehend …because i’m tensed about getting out there as fast as possible. Now i don’t want the next person behind me to come and withdraw all my cash right? so i press multiple buttons and leave!

Phew!!
what was that??
Did i just behave like that? or do people generally freak out every time they need to use a new system?

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my comp is slow…

Posted by Kshipra in General on November 11th, 2008

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I have a 9  year (& 3 months) old computer at home and yes! it is still operational and i am using it.
When i got it it was the highest config anyone could get…so far i just keep upgrading the RAM…now i gotto change the motherboard and the size of the monitor :-P
Has the computer slowed down? why is my system slow?
The answer is, i have gotten used to a faster machine :-P

I, no longer have the patience for any program to load on my machine, as i need to get my work done fast….and so the upgrade.

Upgrade which reminds me of my parent’s dvd player for the TV, bought at a bargain (couple of years ago) will not play certain formats such as mp4!Now how do you upgrade such an equipment? well for one thing, take the mp4 format and covert (on the comp) to the format acceptable by the dvd player. yup! havent you done it?

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