User Interface is the most important aspect of that killer web application, the deployable software product or teh website that you’ve just released. The technology component, proper marketing and beautiful packaging often take a backseat when it comes to website user interface. User interface is the first thing that users come across and is that aspect that can make or break the version 1x of your software. Read more…
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…
