User Interface

Use Profile Picture As Emoticon in Facebook Chat

by Vishal Mehta May 11, 2012 Just One Other Thing

Facebook Chat Allows Profile Picture As Emoticon Facebook allows you to insert profile picture of anyone in the chat window. It’s a nice little feature to make the chat more picturesque. The convention is to type as: [[profile-id]] OR [[profile-name]]. Everyone’s profile page URL contains either the id or the name; for example: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1499865610 OR [...]

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GoDaddy Domain Smart Search

by Vishal Mehta May 4, 2012 Just One Other Thing

Domain Search on GoDaddy When you search for a domain name on Godaddy, it displays instantly a series of smart results, based on the most common extensions people choose. The feature is very functional and easy in that the users do not have to navigate back and forth for search options and re-do it. The [...]

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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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Smiley

by Vishal Mehta April 23, 2012 Applications

Smiley in Communication In this new age, early “warmth” is exchanged between newly formed acquaintances, in hope of building quick relationships. Smileys and other emoticons that we used only with close friends, family and blind dates (!!) now find place even in semi-formal and formal situations. What came off-age during Instant Messenger days, now is [...]

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Web Forms Design

by Vishal Mehta April 11, 2012 One Tiny Advice

Web forms We’re all getting touchy if not smart. Smart phones or otherwise, touch-phenomenon is here, there and everywhere. The picture above shows the natural eye movement of users while reading on screen. This holds true in all cases of PC and laptop users. But now, the normal ‘Z’ scan eye movement of end-users is questioned [...]

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Strategy to Improve SAP Usability

by Vishal Mehta April 6, 2012 Applications

First published on SAP Community Network, this blog post addresses SAP usability strategy. Many companies have consulted with me on their SAP improvements. What I suggest always is to classify on a high-level – 5 things, before strategizing what and how. Processes that run correctly Processes that are error-prone Processes where custom requirements are known [...]

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Keyboard Shortcuts for GMail

by Vishal Mehta March 25, 2012 Just One Other Thing

GMail Shortcuts Many of you might know this already – pressing ‘?’ (question mark symbol) on your keyboard when signed in to GMail (and not typing) brings up a nice pop-up with all keyboard shortcuts. By default, the keyboard shortcuts are disabled, so the pop-up displays an option to enable them, from top-left corner. It’s [...]

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Can Tata Photon Plus Make It Uglier?

by Vishal Mehta February 5, 2012 Good, Bad, Ugly

Tata Photon User Interface Professionally or otherwise, I have seen plenty of ugly user interfaces. Few like Craig’s List are ugly, are still very much usable and hence works alright for the user. One interface I have to face daily really takes the cake of being one of the ugliest I have ever seen. Tata [...]

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SCAMPER – Combine With Something

by Vishal Mehta January 10, 2012 Process

Combine. The second element of the SCAMPER. For any problem, “combining” concepts, bringing something together, a blend, an ensemble – leads to interesting solutions. Think about combining units, components, purposes, ideas, processes, appeals! It is all about building synergy and enhancing it, from various parts. Creative output often demands combining several unrelated items to create [...]

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SCAMPER – Substitute Something

by Vishal Mehta January 5, 2012 Process

The first element of SCAMPER. Substitute. While tackling a problem, the substitution technique allows you to generate models by challenging to replace things. Specific to your problem at hand, you can think of substituting ‘people’, ‘process’, ‘material’, ‘time’, ‘place’, and/or anything that applies. By employing this technique, you will generate interesting and diverse thought process [...]

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