design

  • Languages?

    I was strolling in Manali when I saw these signs. It was on a lunch house, and typical of tourist places it served everything from regional specialities (punjabi, gujarati) to chinese. In particular the punjabi thali and gujarati thali, was written in punjabi and gujarati script respectively. At first glance it seems very obvious. If…

  • Embeds are Octopusy

    When I first came across embeds, namely youtube type video embeds, I thought them strategically stupid. If you could view the whole video, why would anyone go to the site. Some would, but many wouldn’t. Though they have made the whole embed (except the controls) a link to that page on their site. But that…

  • Walls on fire

    From the ancient times humans have been trying to enliven their surroundings. The following images show one of the oldest discovered images made by man. Humans are one of the few animals, who have a sense of aesthetics. Well many nests made by birds, or mud castles made by termites, etc. are beautiful too, but…

  • Browser War – 1

    99% chances are that you are reading this on a browser. So being a usability/design blog why not analyze your browser first. For starters let’s just focus on very basic browsing goals, in three web browsers mainly IE7, Firefox 2 and Opera 9. And we won’t be going into how these browsers render html code…

  • Anecdotes Bhilai valon ke

    I’ll post anecdotes about friends sent in by friends :).The first batch has been baked by subhash. Aur kisi ko kisi cheez se pain ho toh mujhse kahe…and if anyone wants to narrate any other kisssa abt our friends plz mail them to k.a.anand@ gmailDOTcom *************************************************:—–Anirvan:—— 1) This is one of the stories that can…