INTRODUCTION

A man’s error are his portals of discovery.

What does the above quotation convey? To have a portal, you have to commit mistakes. Isn’t that funny? No not at all. It may be a motivating sentence, but in business it can turn out to be doomsday for small start-ups with little investments.

We have already talked about usability and UI design issues in our previous blog: Usability and UI Design go Hand-in-Hand. This article has been done especially for small start-ups who want to make it in their respective fields and are planning to launch their website or looking for a facelift or adding new functionalities to there existing site or aren’t sure about their design requirements. The blog will offer you an in-depth analysis of how to find the best possible web solution for your idea/company/organization.

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Introduction

When I asked my Dad to help me by doing some charitable donation towards my wallet as I had to buy the Nokia 8800(Gold), he mysteriously smiled and told me to check my wallet the next morning. To my utter surprise, I found a note that said “Mobile phones are meant for talking. What to do with a flashy jazzy instrument. Please find Rs 500 note behind”.

Is that really so? Then why so much money is being poured in for designing interfaces? If TV is for watching movies not the TV itself, why LG’s Scarlet boasts itself to be the “Hot New Series of TVs from LG”? On a funnier note, it leaves another doubt in our mind, “Are the days over when actors and models used to be hot” apart from your favorite colleagues, classmates, college buddies etc? Why can’t we just add features and keep continuing with the existing models, thus, just investing in R&D instead of look and feel? Are humans more receptive to appearance than to functionality? The more potent question, “Does it apply to websites also?” Read more…

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Safety or shall we call it keeping away from harm and, security which may be termed as protection from any harm are an integral part of every society ranging from east to west or north to south of the globe. When these two combine, form something which can be termed as pre-issue termination. In the developed side of the world this forms an integral part of daily curriculum and life. Let us simply check a life cycle to explain this. With reference to developed world, when the child is born, safety handbook of various vaccinations, hygiene etc is provided to the parents. As the child grows older, parents through literature or websites are provided the precautions to child’s habits. Like of eating (or tasting) every particle that comes in their path etc. Even the art of keeping a vigil is provided as a help or assistance. Now the child enters the pre teens demanding their first vehicle – a bicycle. Read more…

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Most of us have played the game 20Questions at some time or the other. I am still fascinated at how just by asking a set of 20 questions you can read other person’s mind (or get close to it). The trick obviously lies in asking the right set of questions. Read more…

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