usability

Can Tata Photon Plus Make It Uglier?

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

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 Photon Plus could not [...]

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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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Press The Word And Spot The Blog!

by Vishal Mehta September 19, 2011 Infographic

Enough has been written on the subject of which platform serves the best to a regular blogger, personal or business. Blogger or WordPress? This post again is a comparison, albeit from an overall usability and user experience dimension. I have used both Blogger and WordPress extensively; also, I’ve interviewed few regular bloggers on their user [...]

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‘Zero Click’ Usability

by Vishal Mehta September 1, 2011 Applications

What would you say to getting a better user experience without even a single click? Even better, how about a scenario when the user is complete unaware that he’s being served better without being bothered by information and decision-making questions that are repetitive and painful? Google Chrome is the noble angel who achieves this with [...]

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Originality – A Design Myth.

by Vishal Mehta August 20, 2011 User Opinion

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, [...]

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Facebook Questions Are Questionable

by Radha Giri August 6, 2011 Just One Other Thing

Have you explored the questions feature in Facebook? Strangely the question type (single answer/multiple answers) depends on whether you allow or not allow adding of additional options. If you allow users to add options, the question type becomes Multiple Answer (allowing selection of multiple options). When you do not allow that option, the question becomes [...]

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Useless Option in LinkedIn

by Vishal Mehta July 22, 2011 Usability Issues

LinkedIn is focused and arguably the best professional networking sites that is around. It also does a fairly good job at scoring high on usability – ease of use. However, there is one distinct element that is so unnecessary…and it completely reverses the usability effect in the feature. (This post assumes that the audience is [...]

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Usability in ONE Page!

by Vishal Mehta July 8, 2011 Web Design

Less is More?   We may admire the concept of less is more; but how often do we consciously entertain the same? Consider websites. If your clarity translates into a Single page saying it all, why go for more? Is it because we are obsessed with consuming as much hosting space for what we paid [...]

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Usability of Email

by Vishal Mehta June 28, 2011 User Experience

Communication paradigm was blessed with the invention of Email a few decades ago. Over so many years, there have been hundreds of Email programs and clients that have served us; but very little has changed really – in terms of Usability of Email. This, primarily in two aspects – how usable, and how useful. Email [...]

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The Unsung Nuisance

by Arpit Shah June 16, 2011 User Experience

I am of the opinion that a ‘saturated’ situation enables us to understand a situation to its fullest detail and examine the flaws. For example, all luxury cars are tested at full throttle in a simulated environment to understand if there are any issues/digressions from their stipulated targets. I am also of the opinion that [...]

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