User Experience

Consistency – Product Experience Across Devices

by Vishal Mehta May 2, 2012 Applications

Consistency can be difficult for a product company to maintain in its branding and user experience through growing platforms. PC to Mobile to Tablet. iOS to Blackberry to Android to Windows Mobile. It is however, mandatory I would opine to achieve the consistency. The following three high-level points will either drive home or drive away [...]

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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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Tilted Google

by Vishal Mehta April 7, 2012 Just One Other Thing

Tilted Google Experience This is probably old, although for me it’s a recent discovery. Google continues to be the king when it comes to a superior web experience with a superior sense of humor. Google “tilt” and see the subtly tilted search results…just one other thing!

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Phantom Keys on iPad

by Vishal Mehta April 6, 2012 Just One Other Thing

Phantom Keys! By now all iPad users must have knowingly or accidentally (like me) experienced the usable genius of “split” keyboard while typing. Another accidental discovery of mine was the availability of hidden or phantom keys at the edge of the split keyboard – further enhancing user experience of natural typing. This has been covered by a [...]

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Angry Innovation is Super Engaging

by Vishal Mehta March 27, 2012 Brand Identity

Continuous innovation leads to superior user engagement. Or is it the other way? For Angry Birds, it’s BOTH! I can’t believe that this all-age-super-addictive-simple-yet-challenging-visual-and-sound-treat-physics game is just over 2 years old (The first version came out in December 2009)! What has happened since then is more than just phenomenal. Experts say that for a great [...]

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Future Systems Won’t Require a Password to Login?

by Vishal Mehta March 21, 2012 Usability

Future of Password Security and Usability do not marry well, we all can conclude generally speaking. If you want high security, there’s some inevitable pain for the user that follows. Think all real world systems – airports, ATMs, Bank procedures, Insurance, etc and computer systems too – multi-level authentications, security tokens and one-time-passwords! Just yesterday, [...]

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HootSuite Snooze

by Vishal Mehta February 28, 2012 Just One Other Thing

Ignore HootSuite application for some time; when you return, you have to “wake it up!” to use again. Nice little user experience!

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IDEO builds a better ATM

by Vishal Mehta February 24, 2012 Applications

IDEO has done it again. Who could have thought of bringing more innovation and simplicity in a thing as universal as ATM? I use analogies with ATM all the time, like using the expression…noone’s ever been trained on an ATM; why should software user interface be any different. 2 years well spent on building a [...]

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We Were Sofa

by Vishal Mehta February 22, 2012 Brand Identity

One of the most inspiring sites/companies for me since 3 years has been the Sofa, who got acquired by Facebook in 2011. I wanted to re-read witty profiles of their team, so I visited the site again yesterday. The site essence has remained unaltered, but there’s super-wit in action – proving their understanding of superior [...]

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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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