User Review

Stay Focusd

by Vishal Mehta April 9, 2012 Applications

StayFocusd App User Experience I try out apps and utilities regularly – both to study usability and to actually use them if they fit the bill. A dear friend recommended a Google Chrome add-on called StayFocusd a few days ago. StayFocusd increases your productivity by limiting the amount of time that you can spend on [...]

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Stamp Brilliancy

by Vishal Mehta February 11, 2012 Applications

Every company requires rubber stamps – company seal, authorized signatories, round seal, address, etc. I’m surprised to see so many companies still making use of the bulky stamp-pads and stampers in a messy way, where a nice elegant solution is available since many years. Sure, there have been other breakthroughs that have been vast improvements [...]

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Dettol – Scores By Painful User Experience

by Vishal Mehta February 5, 2012 People

Dettol or Savlon For decades, two brands have been synonymous with first-aid disinfectant solutions for consumers globally – Dettol and Savlon. Which one is better? I am not qualified to answer that, since medicine is outside my area of expertise; I have been a user of Dettol and having satisfied with the product, I haven’t [...]

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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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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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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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Codecademy: Learning How To Code – Made Easy

by Vishal Mehta November 5, 2011 Usability

Codecademy teaches you how to code in an easy, fun, interactive way. Moreover you can learn socially (i.e., with your friends)! And it’s Free. With Codecademy, you can learn to build websites, games and apps; you can track and share your progress, view your friends’ progress and hence enjoy a competitive learning path. The platform also [...]

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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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Press The Word And Spot The Blog!

by Vishal Mehta September 19, 2011 Infographic

Enough has been written on the subject of which platform serves the best to a regular blogger, personal or business. Blogger or WordPress? This post again is a comparison, albeit from an overall usability and user experience dimension. I have used both Blogger and WordPress extensively; also, I’ve interviewed few regular bloggers on their user [...]

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