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Do You Navigate or Search?

by Vishal Mehta March 16, 2012 Usability Characteristics

Navigate or Search What is more user-friendly access to information? Do you like to navigate by clicking on buttons, menus or icons? Or do you prefer to “search” the content? The answer depends on the context and nature of website, page or program. We’ll skip the topic of how important it is to implement either [...]

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Add More White Space

by Vishal Mehta March 14, 2012 One Tiny Advice

An important element of usability – readability of content, often depends on the emptiness within the layout. The white space. Be it margins, padding within rows and columns, spaces around graphics and images, spaces between character texts and lines – white space is the invisible yet inseparable component to generate a comprehensible interface. Apart from [...]

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Lorem Ipsum – A Bad Approach to Design

by Vishal Mehta March 12, 2012 Process

Lorem Ipsum is dummy text Are you a designer who does not worry about getting content before starting your design? Are you a consumer who does not offer content to the designer before getting a visual design? Think again! In my opinion, design without content cannot fly. Even if it does – partially to due [...]

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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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Bootstrap Website Program

by Vishal Mehta December 21, 2011 Brand Identity

Read our eligibility criteria and apply for a 99$ website.

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Snowy User Experience With Google

by Vishal Mehta December 21, 2011 Just One Other Thing

Go to Google and search for “let it snow” for a chilled-out experience. After few seconds when your browser and all the text is frozen, notice the “search” button changing its text to “Defrost”. And here’s the greatest part of the experience – you can actually “write” on the frozen screen and “share” the picture [...]

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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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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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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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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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