Technology, Media and Humans

Agile UX Engineering — Developing for scaleable user experiences

In my experience User Experience is perhaps one of the most misunderstood terms in software industry today. There is a lot of buzz associated to the word. While everyone means well, nobody wants to step out of the…

Multiscreen App Ecosystem and Complimentary Experiences

Creating applications that work seamlessly across multiple devices goes beyond responsiveness. Michal Levin, a UX designer at Google categorizes Multiscreen App Ecosystem into three main categories:

Hacking Inhouse UX Testing

In the ever evolving tech-startups ecosystem, it is not really a smart choice to set up user experience testing sessions before every feature release. The go-to strategy is usually to ask testing or development teams to provide feedback on the “UI”. Although valuable, this feedback…

Strangers

Few of the most interesting strangers i have come across in my opportunistic travel history.

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Advanced sharpening using Photoshop

If you happen to be one of those “anti-postprocessing” photographers then this post is probably not for you. Owning a lowend-midrange gear usually is not enough for producing the sharpest images and at some point you do feel the need to digitally sharpen your images…

Interface design 101

I write this as i sit in a library trying to read a book called “Design of everyday things”. The fun part about this read is that its turns you into a complaining annoying person who won’t go without commenting on design flaws in things he/she sees.

Swimming in the sea of strangers

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You move into the crowd. you are satisfied, “no one knows you”. It wouldn’t matter if anyone judges you.

Windows Phone 7 — the gateway technology

For all those developers looking for a platform to kick off their “smartphone development career” with, WP7 is definitely worth considering. I have always thought that Microsoft technologies target development for small to mid scale solutions — the moment you…