April 2010
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March 2010
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iPad App User Interface Quality Is Going To Matter... →
February 2010
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User Experience, driven by Mobile Network...
Today when I saw the news about “Google Buzz” at work, all of my office mates did try to find out if Google Buzz is available for them yet, some get success and some don’t. I as an Android phone user did try it from T-Mobile myTouch3G, guess what? It throw me to the page where it says only Android 2.0+ phones are able to use the Google Buzz.
That’s where I discussed the “reason why I...
January 2010
2 posts
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The iPad: Reality, Unicornism, UXism
So that’s the magical device, the most important invention. Well for average joe, it is somewhat promising. For some power user it is not.
Let’s take a look in to the reality first, it has awesome or I would say gorgeous screen, unlocked but useless on T-Mobile in short AT&T is your only best bet, virtually the only way to go with 3G version is with AT&T, great for high...
“Always focus on the user and all will be well.”
– Even Williams (http://evhead.com/2005/11/ten-rules-for-web-startups.asp)
December 2009
7 posts
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My first UX related project...NaanMap
Yup! I just getting myself ready for the NaanMap launch. I dreamed about this idea when I first witness the Zabihah.com, the reason for coming up with the NaanMap idea was simple… I need simplicity whenever I need to search anything related to niche market. Zabihah.com is still complicated and we did our best to come up with the great User Experience with NaanMap to the niche market.
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That's what I said... Avatar & iPhone, the...
On Friday December 18, 2009, at work I was discussing with my manager about the Avatar and the technologies involve in to it. I said to him… “James Cameron will for sure is setting the standards, and in my opinion Avatar is like the iPhone of the movies.. as per what I read and will see on Monday at 10:30 am”. So does now we can read the same tone here
iPhone raised the bar of...
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Facebook, please do not loot the naive user?
Facebook user are not all ‘tech-savvy’ or ‘power-user’ so why loot them for the sake of trying to be Open?
Hey Facebook, you missed the Twitter bandwagon, so don’t try to copy their idea by trying to putting all the “chit chat” either in Text Format, Video Format or Photo Format in front of Public, wide open.
Do educate your user, without putting the...
“What’s missing isn’t the ideas… it’s the will to execute them.”
– Seth Godin
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
– Steve Jobs
“So we have only three major social interfaces… Twitter, Facebook and...”
– M. Mudassir Azeemi
Tablet Fever
I get acquainted with Tablet PC when I bought it way back in 2005, my first Tablet PC was Averatec C3500 it was pathetic, lame and seriously not up to the par, battery life was so-so, Tablet PC with AMD Athlon XP-M 2200+ was really a joke thrown on the face of a Joker.
Anyways, I gave up, and there is one thing I forgot to mention, I was only using Windows Journal, the built-in Notepad like...
November 2009
3 posts
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Don't Sweat on Subtle Stuff--and it's all Subtle...
Did you notice the price yet? It is too cool to miss, yes, sometime we need small changes to lead to the greatness in our click-puts, in our sale figure, you name it.
Small subtle changes are the one that actually create the rumble for your products.
Don’t Sweat on Subtle Stuff—and it’s all Subtle stuff
5 Different "Share-Link-on-Social Media"...
Recently while working on my personal project, I did start looking for a nice interfaces to share the links on the social medias, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace etc. Doing so, I came to know five different ways to do that, and hence this experience I would like to share with you and my take on it.
Here are my picks..
1) CNN:
What I love about CNN Interface is it is less clutter and it highlights...
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FedEx Track-bar
Recently I noticed few things in the DHL and UPS and other courier services about the presentation of their “Tracking Detail”, the most innovative one is the FedEx Track-bar.
It tells me exactly what is the current status of my package. Without reading too much “text”.
Here is a lesson for the newbies and experts alike, where the Info-graphic-like picture can represent...
October 2009
1 post
Freelance iPhone App Developer needed...
I am looking for the person who have almost all the following requirements:
Past development of iPhone Apps, it is not how many years of development experience you have. It is about Passion! Do you have it?
Extensive knowledge of multiple mobile platforms and their limitations, because Mobile Devices is not your mom’s computers equipped with 4Gig of RAM and 1TB of Hard Drive and...
September 2009
2 posts
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The Fresh User Experience: Drag to Share
Image Link: http://img262.yfrog.com/img262/9607/9222009121439pmy.png
Yes, I know we are use to with the few steps of sharing when it comes to share the links across our social network Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Digg etc.
Well, today when I was at Mashable I was surprised to see the new interface of sharing the link among the social media by just Dragging it and dropping it over hte Social...
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Web Form Blunder: Act of Labels Placement
Have you read the book name “Web Form Design” by Luke Wroblewski? If your answer is Yes then you must know there are Three known standards for placing the labels on the form. Left Align, Right Align and Top Align (from Field / Textbox). If your answer is in NO then fret not! Read the brief intro of it from Luke Wroblewski’s website http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?793 .
...
August 2009
2 posts
Fresh Experience Engaged
Finally, I am able to get the nice skin for my Blog, for last few weeks I was looking for something new and fresh, here it is.
Stay tuned, I am gonna be posting my experience with Google Android Phone and iPhone, from a Homo-Sapien perspective. Thanks to Alan Cooper’s book “Inmate Running the Asylums”. I learned a lot of stuff from this book, highly recommended for those who...
July 2009
2 posts
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UX Two Cents: Amazon's Add to Wish List
Recently I noticed strange behavior with the “Add to Wish List” button on Amazon.com. When I already added the book in my wish-list, why I keep seeing this button, why there is no UI indication that the following book is already added in to my wish list?
In my opinion there should be a Text Blurb that says “Item you are trying to add already in your Wish-list” and a little link that takes me...
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How to write a Functional Specs
As a Information Architect and/or Experience Designer you usually involve in the Functional Specs writing too. Thats how they rock!
In my recent experience I noticed few things related to the Functional Specs, they are dry and boring, they won’t offer the “interactivity” or “energy” related to the project.
As per our human nature (remember developers are humans too,...
June 2009
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May 2009
5 posts
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Curious Interface of ATM Machine
Since I start getting deep in to the rabbit hole of Experience Design. The Experience sensory in my mind keep bugging me with so many annoynace with machines that is scattered at work at home or almost whereever I go and interact with them.
The first annoynace I experienced deep inside me is the ATM Machine.
They are your window to access your securely store stashed in your secret bank...
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Follow-up: Twitter Favorite Harvester in C#,...
Here is the improved code, now it won’t run in to the Twitter Request Per Day Limit.
static void Main(string[] args) { /* * URL for Favoirtes: http://twitter.com/favorites/YourUserNameOnTwitter.xml?page=1 */ WebRequest req; req = WebRequest.Create( (string.Format(“http://twitter.com/favorites/YourUserNameOnTwitter.xml?page={0}”, 1))); NetworkCredential creds = new...
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Twitter Favorite Harvester in C#.
Finally able to get the Favoirte (in a XML format) from Twitter with that nifty script, I encouraged anyone out there to improve it and share it here, and we can build a nifty tool that will feature as follow:
Export the cool links from your Twitter Favoirtes to Digg or Delicious Account or Bookmarks2.com
Export the harvested Links to Firefox or any browser
Export the Fav. Tweets in a nice...
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Jack Moffett on Passionate Designer
Couple of weeks ago when I was reading the Luke Wroblewski’s Web Form Design, I came to know about Jack Moffett, and he just inspired me with his knowledge in Interaction Design (IxDA) and his passion, so withtout further ado, please welcome Jack Moffett on BonGeek’s Blog:
Mudassir (thats the BonGeek) invited me to be a guest on his blog. For those of you not familiar with...
April 2009
28 posts
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Balsamiq Mockups: UI Elements for iPhone...
Balsamiq Mockups from iPhone App wire-framing perspective…. Fortunately for any Experience Designer who religiously follow the wireframes ideas, related to websites or software, targeting any platform: mobile or desktop, is blessing in disguise, yes I used the word disguise, because I noticed whenever someone talk about Balsamiq Mockups they usually love to talk about Website Wireframing...
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Designing for Touch Screens and Interactive...
designaday:
I attended Dan Saffer and Bill DeRouchey’s workshop at Interaction ’09 titled Designing for Touch Screens and Interactive Gestures. While a lot of good information was communicated (Did you know that the largest portion of the brain is devoted to your mouth, while the second largest controls your hands?), much of it was old hat for me. I’ve been designing UIs for tablet PCs with...
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Teaching Everything
designaday:
Leslie Jensen-Inman published an excellent article on A List Apart in January titled Elevate Web Design at the University Level. She discusses the fact that universities aren’t able to keep pace with web technologies and that their graduates are not prepared by the time they graduate. It isn’t an empty claim—she interviewed thirty-two web design leaders about the issue. In the...
The abilities needed in order to be an Interaction...
designaday:
Carl Alviani writes in his post on Creative Seeds titled Five things Interaction Design probably isn’t:
I went to Interaction09 in Vancouver with an intense personal mission to nail down a clear definition of Interaction Designer, and what abilities are needed in order to be one. Almost every time I asked (and I asked a lot of times), the answer was “I have no idea.”
Well, Carl, I’m...
March 2009
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"UI Does Matter" published!
My article about User Experience of iPhone Apps under the title of “UI Does Matter” is published in iPhone Life Magazine Spring 2009 issue, it is available at your Newsstand or you can check it out the digital version at Zinio, it’s on Page 49.
UI Does Matter!
Until next time!
BonGeek
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Interaction Design for Beginners
For last couple of days I was asking on Twitter that how should I get started in Information Architect, Interaction Design & User Experience arena, it all about the “Art & Science of Human Behavior”, whether it is related to creating a website or designing an iPod or a door knob. It is nothing more than understand the Human behavior toward any product usage and usability. I...
Conventions are your best friends! Deborah Adler,...
What a great weekend it was, especially when you have a baby who just learned to crawl and walk. In the past week great stuff came out of MIX09. It was superb! Some of the highlights were…Silverlight 3, Expression Blend’s SketchFlow, Silverlight Out-of Browser (SLOOB) Experience etc.
The Day 1 Keynote was great, although a few things related to Silverlight 3.0 we already knew, as the...
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Simple UI!
Clever Uses: Simple User-Interface Trick Makes Your Remotes Idiot Proof
Check it out!
Superb Tab UI!
EffectiveUI – Award Winning User Experience Design and Rich Internet Application Development
EffectiveUI – Award Winning User Experience Design and Rich Internet Application Development
Awesome "User Interface Resource Center"
User Interface Resource Center
Objectified! A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit
Waiting for this Documentary, as “Pirates of Silicon Valley” was my inspiration to be in San Jose, CA from Karachi, Pakistan!
Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit
"Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal"
Do you think that #Facebook is “Borrowing” Interface? or “Stealing” it from the #Twitter? I think they tried to Steal it but ended up with the earlier.
Facebook Makeover Mimics Twitter — Facebook — InformationWeek
Desi Back to desh » Ease of doing business in... →
Why I hate OpenSource SDK Docs?
If you are like me, you would prefer many Open Source SDKs, and there is always some minor catches here and there, I noticed in Log4Net SDK Reference the document says use “;” semi-colon to seprate the multiple addresses, but guess what? IT’S WRONG! … use “,” instead, this dude’s blog helped me.
Fool me once, shame on —shame on you. Fool me —...
