The more design-related articles and blog posts I read, the more I feel that they fall under these two categories: Design Artefacts — the visible components that constitute your app-screen/web-page. This includes choice of UI elements, colors and typography. Design Process — the steps you follow to make various design…

User-centered design is an iterative process that focuses on an understanding of the users and their context in all stages of design and development. If you’re a designer, you’re probably familiar with the different design techniques around this — user interviews, surveys, card sorting, focus groups, prototype validation, etc. …

UX Case Study — Recruiterbox is an “Applicant Tracking System” that helps small- and medium-sized companies manage their hiring process — including sourcing candidates, screening, scheduling interviews, collecting feedback, etc. In this project, we set out to add a layer of “smartness” to the system, to make it highlight action items based on the…

I’ve been using GoodReads for a few years, and I’ve always cringed at how badly it’s designed, especially the mobile app. I’m mostly concerned about the interactions and not so much about the look-and-feel. Before I get to do a complete redesign of the app, with proper research and validation, I just thought I’d — as a fun exercise — create a persona definition based on myself. Now that this is done, I’d like to speak to people who like reading books — those who already use GoodReads as well as those who don’t. If you’re a reader yourself, and if you can spare 30 mins to help me with this, feel free to let me know in the comments.

Originally published at viky.in on August 26, 2017.

During a recent trip, I found this faucet-control in one of the hotels we stayed at. It looked elegant. When I tried to use it is when the confusion started. There was a shower above this and another tap-like outlet below. Now, how do I turn the shower on? I…

Just dumping my thoughts from a recent discussion… You have something that you want your users to do. It could be signing up for your product, giving you their contact number, getting more productive using your product, or clicking on a particular button inside your app. …

While designing user experience at Recruiterbox, there have been many instances where people say “Hey.. isn’t that inconsistent?” My typical immediate thought would like “Dude! I’m trying to make the system smart here.” I would immediately ask myself the question “Can’t a smart system be consistent?” One part of me…

According to Fitts’s law, the time required to move a pointing device to a target is a function of the distance to the target and its size. In simpler words, the closer and larger a target, the faster it is to click on that target. When I first heard about…