user-interface

What Role Does User Interface Play In Your App Decisions?

by Atul Dhakappa September 23, 2011 Applications

I have the privilege of making this 100th post for my dear friend, Vishal. Many thanks for offering this privilege to me. Having been in B2B marketing for close to 15 years now, I have faced numerous situations, where organizations go through painful evaluation processes to decide on the apps that are right for their business. In the last [...]

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Techniques/Guidelines for User Interface Creation

by Vishal Mehta February 8, 2011 Web Design

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE – visualizes complexity to make confusing and business technology issues clear, concise and concrete; helping people to make better, faster decisions, leading to action and results. We’ve discussed examples of many principles and concepts of usability and user interface design in the previous blog posts. This feature lists down several concrete techniques [...]

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Usability Characteristic: “Easy To Learn”

by Vishal Mehta February 3, 2011 Usability Characteristics

The last feature in Usability Characteristics. An easy to learn site/product is one that supports both the initial orientation and continued learning throughout the complete lifetime of use. Most usability exercises applied to sites and products achieve an end result that assures low entry barrier, i.e., initially easy to learn. However, very few result in [...]

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Usability Dimension: “Desirable”

by Vishal Mehta January 6, 2011 Brand Identity

DESIRABLE. We saw few examples of useful and usable sites and applications. This feature is on “desirable”. “Form follows function” is an age old principle. Everyone is up for beauty. Good looks (form) works like a charm, in any industry, at times even at the expense of function. You may be witness to a great [...]

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Usability Dimension: “Useful”

by Vishal Mehta January 3, 2011 Usability Dimensions

USEFUL. It may be observed that when a website or product is usable, but not useful, it’s unlikely to get off the ground. Useful is what generates the interest, serves a need, scratches an itch. Often useful can do without being usable. If your website page has large content that is “useful” for the user [...]

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Usability and Re-usability

by Vishal Mehta October 25, 2010 Business

Why Re-use? We are faced with the challenge of adapting to an increasingly complex software world with yesterday’s tool sets and standards. Internet, social media, e-commerce, supply-chain re-engineering, CRM, etc. are all contributors to the growing demands on today’s developer. Conceptually, the perfect system would be one in which we would reuse our software, describe [...]

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Custom User Interface (Dilbert)

by Vishal Mehta July 12, 2010 Usability
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UI a better world.

by Vishal Mehta May 5, 2010 Usability Characteristics

User interface. Imagine if everything in this world were as intuitive as a calculator or an ATM. Training departments and organizations would surely go out of business! Jokes aside, let’s try and extend the concept of UI to other things, by drawing parallels with the principles that UI (good one) uses. Whether “concepts of UI” [...]

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