Tutorials
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What is your UX design process ?
This post is primarily for beginners venturing into user experience design. It is essential that within the first week or two of joining your job, you define the process that will ride you through the early phase of requirement gathering to the final delivering of product. Here is the very first UX process that I defined, which is indicative of what worked for me in my early years, and one that has evolved and continues to evolve for each project…
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Mission Hiragana
The last time I picked up a language in a hurry was when I was a teen. It took me all of 7 days to learn the Telugu alphabet. For context, this is what that looked like: I hope to re-create this feat, giving myself 30 days to learn the Hiragana alphabet. It certainly helps that the first set of syllables is called Gojūon-zu, which literally means table of 50 sounds – doesn’t that sound musical ? …
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UI sprint – custom number pad
Custom studies Design Brief Easy to use custom number pad for an android application, that would allow drivers of a large firm capture their daily inventory pick-ups. Primary pain-point Large touch surface area needed, to accommodate for drivers glove clad fingers. _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ \ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________
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UX Metrics – a session for IxDA, Hyderabad
I was privileged to receive the opportunity to speak at a recent IxDA meetup. The below deck is from my presentation on the topic of UX Metrics.
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The story of the ribbon – the evolution of the MS Office UI
Watch this beautiful story on how the Microsoft Office 2007 user interface was designed. It makes for fun and interesting viewing, even if design doesn’t excite you.
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Choosing between adaptive vs. responsive design
Often I see, designers presenting both versions of the design to clients, however I believe that choosing the right style at the outset, is the key to executing the design with better direction and focus on results. Responsive design: A responsive website will show content based on the available browser real estate. A responsive site on the desktop will move dynamically and arrange itself, as you change the size of the browser window. This process is automatic, on mobile phones…
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Learn Sketch with me – Create pages and artboards
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Introductions – Elementary Japanese
Ha ji me ma shi te は じ め ま し て Ha ji me ma shi te は じめまして wa ta shi wa ne ko わ た し わ ね こ watashiwa neko わた しわ…
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Eat, drink and be merry – Surviving meal time in Japan
い た だ き ま す – I ta da ki ma su いただきます – Itadakimasu お い し い – O i shi i おいしい – Oishii ま あ ま あ – Ma a Ma a ( M ā m ā ) まあまあ – Māmā な っ と う – Na t tō なっとう – Nattō か ん ぱ …