Archive for the ‘User eXperience Design’ Category

CLI > GUI > CLI on GUI!?!

Friday, November 16th, 2007

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 ...

Sun’s Web Application Guidelines goes public

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

The xDesign team at Sun Microsystems opened-up its Web Application Design Guidelines recently. “They are a set of building blocks for web applications that have been designed by user interface specialists, thoroughly thought through and usability tested. They can be used for developing full web applications, allowing designers and developers ...

Front-End Performance Optimization through CSS sprites

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Among many techniques used to reduced the No. of requests to the servers, CSS sprites is a cool one. This simple CSS technique involves clubbing multiple images as one and uses ” background-position:” to define the image display. Here’s a cool CSS Sprite generation tool

Microsoft’s global designer conference in Bangalore

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

As part of their global designer conference, Shelley Armstrong & Supreet Singh from the Microsoft UX team will introduce Microsoft Expression Studio in Bangalore on Oct 4th | 5 pm at Fuga , #1 Wood Street (Nagarjuna Building) Castle Street Entrance, Off Brigade Road Register here >

dCamp Bangalore V 1.0 rocked!

Monday, September 17th, 2007

The first ever design unconference in India, dCamp Bangalore witnessed participation from an interesting mix of designers, developers, product managers etc., Over 75 campers and 10 speakers participated at Yahoo’s campus, yesterday. The good folks from Yahoo Bangalore sponsored the event and made arrangement for t-shirts, lunch and Beer! ...