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Dec 23, 2017

Here’s what you need to know about Icons as an UX designer

Reflection point : Types of icons and their meanings — I’m sure you must have heard the phrase ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’. Because of how our brain is wired, we find it easy to perceive, process and recall visual information quickly than words. Our brain distinguishes images that we see and words that we read very differently…

Icons

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Here’s what you need to know about Icons as an UX designer
Here’s what you need to know about Icons as an UX designer

Dec 13, 2017

Reflection Point

An observation on design patterns and flows in Hotstar — Hotstar is a digital and mobile entertainment platform for streaming media and video on-demand services. It was launched in February 2015 in India with the intention to serve as a mobile app for live streaming 2015 Cricket World Cup. Later it expanded its services to include media content from eight…

Hotstar

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Reflection Point
Reflection Point

Dec 4, 2017

Playrix’s Township

Reflection point: Usability, Accessibility, and Ethics — Township is a real-time city building cum farming development strategy game. It is free to download and is available across multiple platforms, such as iOS, Android and Amazon Appstore for Android. It is developed by Playrix, one of the world’s top mobile game developers based in Russia. It was released…

Township

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Playrix’s Township
Playrix’s Township

Nov 21, 2017

Understanding the art and science of Information Architecture

A dive into the history, evolution and current system of organizing information using IA. — Information Architecture (IA) is the structural design of information and content within a digital product focusing on presenting the most efficient and logical way of searching and utilizing information for a user. In other words it helps the user solve the problems of accessing and using a vast amount of…

Information Architecture

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Understanding the art and science of Information Architecture
Understanding the art and science of Information Architecture

Nov 3, 2017

Who killed BlackBerry?

A curious case of assumptions & failures — As of the year 2016 BlackBerry officially stepped down from the smartphone arena. After 14 years in the making, once a tech-giant BlackBerry decided to stop making its own smartphones by shutting down its hardware manufacturing division. In an official written statement, John Chen, CEO of BlackBerry Ltd said — …

Smartphones

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Who killed BlackBerry?
Who killed BlackBerry?

Oct 28, 2017

All aboard the Ola Express

Reflection Point : My thoughts on what makes a good product design — A melting pot of many cultures — Chennai is a bustling city, housing a 10 million people and is the fourth populous metropolitan city in India. Businessmen, vendors, college-goers, home-makers, tourists, school kids, ‘i’m-gonna-make-it-in-kollywood’ wannabes — with only a few born and bred Chennaiite mixed into this crazy bunch. Regardless…

Olacabs

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All aboard the Ola Express
All aboard the Ola Express

Oct 23, 2017

Analyzing Design

UX Academy Project — Using Design Hierarchy of Needs, in this article I will be analyzing three different web and mobile applications in terms of what characteristics make up for a good design vs. bad design. Inspired from Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in his 1943 paper “A Theory of Human Motivation”, the psychological…

UX

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Analyzing Design
Analyzing Design
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