Muthukumar Rajamani : Interaction Designer/Manager, Bangalore

Product Experience Management,User Reseach at Cisco Systems, India

Archive for the 'Voice of the User - VOU' Category

People’s Phone!

After People’s Car, its time now for People’s Phone! Nodia based Spice Ltd, unveiled a no frill mobile phone during the Mobile World Congress event recently. Priced at $20 (about Rs 800), it has bare minimal features that might primarily appeal to rural/illiterate users and those who’d be happy with a basic low-cost basic mobile phone. [...]

14 March 2008 at 02:08 - Comments
I think out thoughts are very close to each other. I had blogged about it some time back http://the100rabh.blogspot.com/2008/03/mobiles-in-era-of-ibm-pc-compatible.html
14 March 08 at 02:16
Yea Saurabh, it would be cool to customize one's phone, be it in terms of software or hardware.
14 March 08 at 06:16

Duplicate charge alert

Often, credit card charges are duplicated erroneously by merchants . While some banking websites like Citibank, Amex lets you dispute these duplicate charges online, i was thinking more on the lines of a new feature that would alert the merchant and the credit card holder, through e-mail and/or SMS, whenever a same value gets [...]

4 March 2008 at 06:10 - 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