July 2011

Play Snakes While YouTube Is Loading…

by Vishal Mehta July 30, 2011 Just One Other Thing

Next time you’re watching a video on YouTube and waiting for it to buffer/load, you should PRESS and HOLD two keyboard keys – LEFT ARROW and UP ARROW. Voila! Enjoy the ’70′s arcade game of Snake – right within the YouTube window.  

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Yahoo: Are You From The Future?

by Amol Dharmadhikari July 28, 2011 Just One Other Thing

On Yahoo! mail registration page, when you enter your birth year as something that’s beyond the current year, check out their message.   Nice subtle sense of humor, isn’t it?

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Reverse Play on CNN

by Vishal Mehta July 25, 2011 Just One Other Thing

CNN Arabic – Check out the “Play” buttons on the video links – also reversed (right-to-left direction!) Interesting, huh?

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Beautiful Contact Pages

by Vishal Mehta July 24, 2011 Web Design

Presenting a list of few creative contact pages that might inspire… created201   lionways   digitalbase   eshbeata   beakable   phase2   collision   bruno   bert   we love icons   wingcheng   cornerd   triangle   loewy   nilarian   socialsnack   pixelounge   edpeixoto   bio-bak   frutteto  

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Useless Option in LinkedIn

by Vishal Mehta July 22, 2011 Usability Issues

LinkedIn is focused and arguably the best professional networking sites that is around. It also does a fairly good job at scoring high on usability – ease of use. However, there is one distinct element that is so unnecessary…and it completely reverses the usability effect in the feature. (This post assumes that the audience is [...]

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Farctate…Churlish…Frisson…Vulpine…Lalochezia…

by Vishal Mehta July 21, 2011 Usability Issues

My 2.5 year old daughter typed today’s title! Well, while you might appreciate the little joke about my daughter, I bet you’ll be turned off by taking effort to digest the words used in the title. Words. Let’s discuss the usability aspect of words… Words and their immediate interpretation – is what connects us with [...]

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404 – Engage Even When You Are Not Found!

by Vishal Mehta July 16, 2011 Business

  You expended good amount of effort on SEO to make your website findable on Google and other search engines. People land up on your site through various sources. Let’s say few years and few website revamp exercises later, some audience is coming to your site, but on a dead page (a page link that [...]

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Service Recovery is User Friendly

by Vishal Mehta July 15, 2011 Business

How often do you admit your mistakes? Are you convinced about the fallacy that accepting your mistakes would make you appear weak? Get out of this subconscious or conscious mindset. If you’re in service industry, you’ll either know or realize that humility is the key to retain loyal customers. You will make mistakes; that’s fine. [...]

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Usability in ONE Page!

by Vishal Mehta July 8, 2011 Web Design

Usability: Less is More?   We may admire the concept of less is more; but how often do we consciously entertain the same? Consider websites. If your clarity translates into a Single page saying it all, why go for more? Is it because we are obsessed with consuming as much hosting space for what we [...]

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