November 2011

iBooks Page Indicator

by Vishal Mehta November 27, 2011 Applications

iBooks – the book reader app on iPad – displays a page indicator: “# of pages left in this chapter”. Very useful, especially when you’re reading something and about to doze off, the indicator could help you decide whether to continue now or later! This fits perfectly as a emotional design element of a user [...]

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What All Makes A Website Bad?

by Vishal Mehta November 25, 2011 Usability Issues

What are the indicators of a bad website? People know and talk about layout, navigation, color, font, resolution, movement, etc. that if gone wrong, would invariably make a website a bad example of usability and user experience. Plenty of sites discuss these elements effectively with examples. However, one of the most effective ones I saw [...]

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‘D’ Infographic

by Vishal Mehta November 23, 2011 Infographic

Negative thoughts can result into something constructive. The theme of my second infographic took birth from some negative emotions faced during last week. In due course, with some research I realized that the alphabet ‘D’ has a strange coincidence of being the start of maximum words with a negative tone, outnumbering many other alphabets put [...]

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Cutting Edge Usability With Gillette Fusion

by Vishal Panchal November 15, 2011 Usability

Let me begin by saying that I am a Gillette user. Have been, since the time I could shave. I have always admired the way they went about hacking their own products with newer, better alternatives. And they weren’t just adding the number of blades to the… well razor blade to develop markets! Here in [...]

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Nokia Clicks In Hi-Res Sequence

by Vishal Mehta November 9, 2011 Applications

My brother recently purchased Nokia-C6. As in other phones, the camera quality is nice – which allows us to conveniently “forget” the digital camera at home, while going out places that are picture-friendly! In exploring further, he was pleasantly surprised by finding a “Sequence” mode option in Camera settings – this like most digital cameras [...]

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Google Recursion!

by Vishal Mehta November 8, 2011 Just One Other Thing

Search “recursion” on Google. This is what you get… Notice the suggestion? When you click on that, you get the same search results page. Is it recursion or is that recursion? Flawed algorithm or smart sense of humor?

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Emotional Impact Of Your Blog Post

by Vishal Mehta November 7, 2011 Business

Make your blog post user-friendly. How? What will capture more attention and engage your visitors? Is it the content or the layout or the language or the graphics? Once you identify and narrow down on your profiled visitors, you need to plan to a granular level – many aspects of your blog and blog posts [...]

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Lean Back On YouTube

by Vishal Mehta November 7, 2011 Usability

Finally after many years Google made the first significant change in YouTube. YouTube LeanBack. This Flash-based micro-presence really is a benchmark in Usability and Minimalist behavior, while still providing all the features of YouTube. As the name suggests, you simply have to “lean back” and watch videos as soon as you launch YouTube LeanBack. It [...]

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Page Up With Google Plus Toolbar

by Vishal Mehta November 5, 2011 Just One Other Thing

Google Plus Multi-Functional Toolbar Users of Google Plus know the usefulness of the top, black bar – it allows you to fire other Google platforms with a single-click. Well, there’s a hidden feature of the black bar and that’s a PAGE UP functionality! If you’ve scrolled down several pages to view stuff in your circles, [...]

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For A Future-Friendly Web

by Vishal Mehta November 5, 2011 Usability

A beautiful presentation by Brad Frost, about the Content and Context of the future of the web. http://www.slideshare.net/bradfrostweb/for-a-futurefriendly-web

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