October 2011

Attention Captcha’d By IMDB

by Vishal Mehta October 21, 2011 Just One Other Thing

IMDB, the Internet Movie Database site provides user verification Captcha code in form of name of a movie or an actor. Subtle way of engaging relevance!

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You Can’t Please Everyone!

by Vishal Mehta October 21, 2011 Applications

Thank God It’s Friday. You are a business owner. Your product/service has a global market. Your website is such that everyone can consume. TTFF (True, True, False, False)! Even products that are “atomic” in nature (have almost only one function) cannot have a universal acceptance. If your product is not a match-box, calculator, ATM, tissue [...]

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Usability of Infographic: BBC

by Vishal Mehta October 20, 2011 Infographic
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Copy-Paste Special Characters

by Vishal Mehta October 17, 2011 Usability

Every time I had to use a copyright symbol (©) or a registered symbol (®) in my design mock-up, it was a time-consuming struggle. The Wingdings and Webdings are good, but kind of difficult to find and paste without a series of mouse actions. Even more tiresome using these in various web applications and platforms [...]

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GMail Prompts For Attachment

by Vishal Mehta October 15, 2011 Just One Other Thing

GMail Attachment How often have you meant to send an attachment in an Email and forgotten to attach the file, just to later resend and feel embarrassed? This has happened quite a few times with me. Just today, I “forgot” while using GMail; and I was slapped by a prompt pop-up message (see below). GMail [...]

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Steve Jobs – The Usability Man Speaks!

by Vishal Mehta October 10, 2011 People

You have inspired and delighted us all, and will always continue to do so. RIP Steve. “Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.” “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night [...]

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Forgot Password on Expensify?

by Vishal Mehta October 10, 2011 Just One Other Thing

Expensify makes an effort to pacify you while you reset your password; check out the simple message on their user interface.

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Credit Card Filtering on GitHub

by Vishal Mehta October 4, 2011 Just One Other Thing

GitHub has an interesting UI element about filtering the accepted credit cards, by identifying your start digit of the card. The moment you enter the first digit of the card, it grays out all but the identified card on its screen.  

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