Covid had put a hold on everything! But the Innovation at Carnot Technologies is an exception. We started working remotely but our efficiency was not sacrificed nor our hunger for innovation. This post covers the design journey of one such innovation realized during the lockdown.

Simha Kit, our flagship product, is loved and accepted by the farmers but we stumbled across a challenge. What about the many medium/large sized sugar factories, mills, and agri-business centers that own a fleet of 20–50 tractors?

The challenge was — how can we bring a behavior change with something as simple as fleet management, but to an audience which has never gone beyond excel sheets? Besides the obvious problems of UX and tech in viewing information of 50 tractors in 2G enabled low-end mobile phones, we needed something that showcases complicated information in a seemingly simple way. …

Do you believe in future prediction using a crystal ball? How about astrology? What if I tell you that you can literally predict if a farmer will be buying a tractor or not in the near future?

We are different. We are modern and we got our modern tool Simha Profiler with us. We don’t have a crystal ball or some of the best astrologers in our team but fortunately, we got our users’ usage insights and some of the best data scientists in our team and the combination of these two is nothing less than a crystal ball 🔮

The existing process of making a tractor sale is lengthy… way too lengthy! We don’t know when was the last time the process was updated! …

When was the last time you watched a TV with a broadcast service?

TV killed the radio and now let’s talk about what is going to take over the TV. Broadcasting services are struggling and Online streaming services/video playing is taking over broadcasting services.

Back in days, TV was the apex in the media industry, People use to love watching TV and spend hrs of their days and late nights watching TV, especially on weekends.

Extensions are cool! And they make our life easier. I am sharing a bunch of extensions that helped and made my life easier, hope this list makes your life easier as well :D

Muzli

I Recently added it to chrome, this extensions is by invision. Everytime you open a new tab you gonna see cool designs, design trends, photography and news. These projects are from dribbble, mashable, and techchurch. Comes in handy to stay updated as well as to get inspiration.

Sizzy

Things keep on evolving so does the designing systems. It started back in 1439 when Johannes Gutenberg started with typography and from then designing had come far away.

Designers are in the center now, Back in days if you ask what type of an employee a company is looking for, the answer was Software Engineers, But now every company is looking for User Experience designers.

Design is funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, If you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.
- Steve Jobs

So what’s the future of design? Artificial intelligence, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality? …

I loved how the Indian Railways had taken an initiative of creating an online app for booking unreserved train tickets and sharing train information, and the app is UTS.

Talking about the app, the app is good but it’s not really user-friendly and I believe it needs to be highly user-friendly as it is used by the huge population of India, and they come from different backgrounds and age groups.

It is in use by 10 million+(according to play store downloads) users and if we see play store reviews it’s kind of above-average and people are happy with it, then what is making it a not so user-friendly app? …

In the era of the internet, we all had filled in some sort of a form or created an account or downloaded some files, but at the end of these process what we all go through something called CAPTCHA and we all hate it.

In case you don’t know what is a captcha

Captcha is a program/system that distinguishes between human and machine input.

There are different types of captcha and here we are going to discuss the few famous ones and how we can use alternates to them to create a better user experience.

Words captcha

In word captcha, the user needs to retype the words shown in the above image. That’s not the end, words displayed are not simple and straight they are twisted and flip around which makes it difficult to read and understand them and people often fails at their first attempt. …

Rating products and services have been part of our life from a long time, it was never systemized but always been there, I mean earlier before buying any services or products we use to ask for reviews and ratings from our friends and relatives who had used those services or products before.

Then the era of the internet came in, anything and everything you can buy online, A market place to buy or sell products or services were not just restricted to a local market, Everything was global, But there was a huge gap between buyers and sellers, as both the buyers and sellers, can’t really see each other or know each other hence it was difficult to trust either one. …