Useful header
Most site headers are a generic image which is common throughout the site. What if the header also serves a purpose. I really liked how opensourcefood uses the food images as header background.
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Social design problems
Everyone wants to help the poor. The needy. Sometimes the ‘want to help’ is so large that the needy are helped regardless of them. Let us not get into the discussion of whether some NGO’s are in this just to make loads of Tax-free money. Merry go around pumps or Roundabout playpumps, are pumps which…
Importance of Permalinks
HFI is a leading usability and human factors consultancy. So I was a little surprised when I came across a small blunder. An example which illustrates the importance of permalinks. Also the importance of experience design. The page I am talking about is the UI design newsletter page. I got to this page from google…
Why companies need UX designers – Ex 1
While I was freelancing, I would get lets of work proposals for UI interface designing and UI development. Frankly I took them only if they paid really well or if I needed work badly. When people asked me what exactly do you do as a UX designer, most of what I say even now is…
kwippy pages are open now!
kwippy pages are open now for your viewing pleasure. Check it out, if you like it add your email for an invite. And do get in touch if you have any suggestions/criticisms, etc. 🙂 i m here: http://www.kwippy.com/kaa/
Value addition -101
I was shopping for groceries in my nearby vegetable market, when I saw this. A little background info first. Vegetables in our country (India) are generally sold by smalltime hawkers. These hawkers may not even have a fixed shop. They get the vegetables from the whole sale sellers who are generally at the outskirts of…
Youtube redux
I had written how embeds are a window into other peoples pages in this post: “Embeds are Octopussy“. Some of the things which I had predicted are now online. This screenshot from a youtube embed says a hundred words, so I’ll shut up.