Here is my Best of 2011 Collection, let’s start with Design:
In the name of UX and Holy Interaction Design and Information Architect Perspective, I respect Adobe’s effort regarding the coolness and awesomeness it offers to billions of designer around the world. Yet on there Job site I still need to follow the Password rules as shown in the screenshot.
Password rules are so 90s, there should be only minimum length restriction, and rest should be the responsibility of the User. Because Internet already trained those who are using websites for Job Search that Password should be easy to memorize and tricky enough for someone else.
An innovative app and an awesome learning experience for kids in Urdu Language can help push them into a creative and multi-lingual expertise. Hopefully you will find those apps useful and fun to teach your kids in Urdu. Click at the images to go to each iTunes Store to download the apps today, enjoy!
So the limitation is pretty clear when you are developing Mobile Apps: Tiny Screen, User have short-attention span, they simple-app not a feature-freak-app, the Jackob Neilsen put it nicely and following is the quote I love most from his article:
People want me to give hard and fast rules: don’t show more than X menu items; don’t write more than Y words per page; nothing should be more than Z clicks from the homepage. Sadly, UI design doesn’t work that way.
I am still chewing the Steve Job’s biography, because of my curiousity I picked that book, because Steve Jobs was always a super-secretive person.
Well after reading the New Yorker’s recent publication regarding Steve Jobs make sense that he was a Great Tweaker.
Most interesting quote to ponder:
“It had a stylus. As soon as you have a stylus, you’re dead”
My article just got published at The Express Tribune (with the International Herald Tribune)!
It is about how the new technology can help support old traditions: Igniting the love for Urdu in America
Just curated the 10 evergreen Dieter Ram’s design principal, [PDF}
Today over the lunch I had a very interesting conversation with my team mate on the issue related to the duplicate posting of an ad (specifically Cars in this case) in multiple cities.
Problem we discussed :”Whenever you search for a car, you get the same car dealers who are offering the same product in multiple cities, and how to avoid it?”, the problem’s solution that I provided was this: Whenever someone post the product on craigslist, and want his ad appears in the city-based search other than the base-city where the car is located, they can tag other “Cities” in there posting, instead of going ahead and with little change posting the same ad in multiple cities. So whenever the user is trying to search there local-city offerings in Craigslist they will be able to see that tagged posting as well.
There are two issues here: One is related to the poster, how we can change there behavior, so do not post the same posting in different cities. Second tackling the search result, and how we can improve it. Let me walk you through the sample scenario
Posting Scenario:
Let say you are the “ABC Car Dealer” and want to post Acura MDX 2004 that is available in San Francisco North Beach Area, so you posted with the following detail:
“Locatoin: North Beach, San Francisco, CA”,
“Post Title: Acura MDX 2004 – 100,000 Miles”,
“Description: Fully loaded Acura MDX 2004, comes with DVD Player, and fully functional Navigation System, call 415-123-4567″
“Price: 15,000″
“Photos: 5 Photos Attached”
Now lets add this field too:
“Tag Specific Cities (10 cities only): San Jose, Fremont, Hayward, Santa Clara, Palo Alto, Oakland, Union City, Mountain View, San Ramon, Dublin, Richmond”
Search Scenario
Lets move to the Mr. Alan who is looking for an MDX specifically from 2004, because his family is grown up, and now he need little big car, preferably 7 seater, because he expecting some other family members visiting him time to time, and he is living with his wife, and two children who are under 3, and living with his family in Hayward.
Now lets see how he will do his search, assuming (it is just based on my preliminary self-applied search scenarios). He will first try this approach 1) Searching for MDX in San Francisco Bay Area and he will be presented with the following search result:
Now let say he just want to browse the offering in his local area due to his limited commute ability in weekdays.
By providing the “Tag local cities” to the Ad Poster we recommend a way to reduce the “Multiple Duplicate Posting by same dealer for the same offering”. Second thing we enhanced the search result too.
What do you think, how you can solve it? I am sure there must be more innovative way to solve that “Multiple Duplicate Posting” (MDP) on CraigsList.org.
Wouldn’t it be nice that those smartphones and smart devices mark the public holidays by default according to the region automatically?
Its a tiny thing but contains huge value.
There should be an option in the setting of those devices to turn on and off the public holidays marking. For me I would keep it on to plan ahead.