July 11, 2007
- Frustration with elevator!
It happens to me every time..
I am in an elevator which is going up, and it will stop at a floor in transit and a guy will peep in his head asking if the elevator is going down!
10 seconds wasted!
Think of the frustration if it happens five times during one ascent.
I am [...]
June 1, 2007
- Most important soft skill in life?
I was trying to think out – What is the most important soft skill in life?
Some options I came across:
Communication? Public speaking? Problem solving? Team management? Time management?
The list was getting too long!
I tried to find a common thread which underlines several soft skills which came to my mind. I zeroed upon something which can [...]
January 16, 2007
- GMail usability flaw – “Mark as read” menu
I feel this is a usability flaw in Gmail’s "Mark as read" contextual menu item.
For all the contextual actions, once the action is done, the checkbox status is turned back to default – i.e. not-checked.
However when you "Mark as read", the mails remain marked i.e. checked, even after the action has taken place. This [...] - Messed up signage in a hospital
A signage as critical as this has been done more in "style" than keeping quick – common understanding in mind.
This is a signage at the main gate of the hospital. It is trying to show two arrows – one towards, the Emergency / Blood Bank / Service Block and the another one pointing towards Main [...]
- Poor metaphor for “Gift-voucher”
Recently, I saw a funny metaphor for "Gift-Voucher" when I visited Shoppers Stop in City Center.
It is a poor example of using a graphics / icon to symbolize a concept. The graphic of a "hanger" gives no reason to relate it to a "gift" or a "redeemable voucher" or both. At least it is [...]
- Simplify contact forms for better conversion
Eoghan McCabe has covered some good conversion tips in his blog post – User Interface Simplicity Gone Wrong.
He has explained how website conversion rate can shoot up if the contact forms are simple and to-the-point. Everyone is in a hurry and people hate filling in long forms. Web site visitors are impatient and one should [...]
July 19, 2006
- Want to rank sites by quality? Check spelling and grammar!
Hi Folks,
Google is doing everything in their capacity to weed out spam and return meaningful results for search queries. However it seems that they missed on an important aspect!
Concept
A good quality website will definitely have proper (if not accurate) spelling and grammar. Using advanced spelling and grammer checking routines, it is very much possible to [...]
