Muthukumar Rajamani : Interaction Designer/Manager, Bangalore

Product Experience Management,User Reseach at Cisco Systems, India

Archive for the 'Usability' Category

Bangalore UX Community Meet

Last evening, about 45 participants had a good time attending an exciting interactive session on “Creativity and design thinking for achieving breakthrough innovations” by Murli Nagasundaram

Murli used Porsche and i-Pod examples to illustrate how user experiences are conceived in a wholistic manner to appeal to user’s multiple senses and address user’s multiple needs. He [...]

7 March 2008 at 05:04 - Comments

Eye Wink Interfaces

Thanks to “eye wink” interfaces, users can bat their eyelids to play their favorite song or even play video games. Users need not use their hands to perform tasks , the system can serve as “a third hand” for caregivers, rock-climbers, car/motorbike drivers and astronauts, as well as people with disabilities. When a user winks, movement [...]

4 March 2008 at 04:58 - Comments

Car stuff

Parking : The other day, a friend of mine and me took about 25 mins to commute from Point A to Point B , we used his GPS gadget to find the location, the shortest route et all. We also spent additional 15 minutes looking for an empty parking lot. One of the key features [...]

19 February 2008 at 15:07 - Comments
There is an app that has come up in MA for this parking nuisance.. You have subscribe to an sms ...
26 February 08 at 03:03
gm
Check this link.. http://www.reggoodwin.info/parking_assist_technology.php#Toyota
3 March 08 at 02:44

Cool usable products

Scalable Screens : I’ve always wanted some sorta a scalable/expandable screen on my mobile phone. Here’s a conceptual design solution.

Over sized remote : This remote glows in the dark and is over-sized making it easily findable.

More cool & usable product concepts. Also see Design at Sun blog

26 December 2007 at 00:07 - Comments

CLI > GUI > CLI on GUI!?!

Update : Read Enso’s take on Why Quasi Modes are more user friendly than Modes

And now CLI gets contextually integrated with GUI! Atleast, that’s what Jono DiCarlo from Humanized has demonstrated through Enzo. All you need to do is press “Caps Lock” key to invoke/trigger the Command Line Interface and start keying in your commands. The [...]

16 November 2007 at 01:42 - Comments
I tried enso for a bit, but I still find the CLI too tedious. I'm a bigger fan of Autohotkey ...
26 November 07 at 20:06
Mac
Vanakkam, I want to move into the UI side of software technology, not by the lure for money due to ...
30 November 07 at 08:12