Re: [IxDA Discuss] What are your principles for making digital products/services

2009-09-16 Thread Manish Pillewar
I dont see how moving out from a discussion after stating your opinion helps anyone. I reckon, there are better ways to deal with perceived arrogance and ignorance than sarcasm. I, for one, certainly expect more on the list than one line retorts. If there was something incorrect about what

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Are carousels effective?

2009-09-14 Thread Manish Pillewar
For carousals, the Marthastewart one is better than the Amnesty International or the Hulu one. while Amnesty's carousal has 1 2 3 4 as the carousal navigation elements, the Hulu one has just blocks on them. Some other carousals have dots on them instead of showing the content title in the

[IxDA Discuss] Yahoo and the browser back button...

2009-08-19 Thread Manish Pillewar
Am i the only one here or do you often click on the browser back button after you've read an email, instead of clicking on Check Mail? . I use Safari.  Manish Govind PillewarDesigner-User's ExperienceThoughtworks | Pune

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Latimes.com Redesign - No Link Colors

2009-08-19 Thread Manish Pillewar
//Looking at A List Apart, another site designed to mimic print design, the things I would expect to be links - articles titles, auther names, and global navigation - are in fact links but are not underlined.// I certainly believe that you are correct in that regard. The site is definitely quick

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of tags as dominant navigation?

2009-04-03 Thread Manish Pillewar
Hi Nicole, A timely question in fact. I was recently working on a UI which is content heavy. More like a wikipedia for a company.The original pages had content with links to keywords on almost every alternate line. Each of those links connected pages within the site itself. All this, making

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Peer Review in User Experience Design

2009-01-09 Thread manish pillewar
Hiya, Peer review is undoubtly critical for unbiased design delivery and quality output from any group. Most design groups work in a collaborative environment. Its a brilliant idea to not only involve peers in design reviews but also design conception. A standard guideline is to ensure that no

[IxDA Discuss] Behavioral patterns of an online gamer: references/experiences share needed

2008-07-13 Thread Manish Pillewar
Hi all, I need references on behavioral patterns or any statistical information on features usage patterns of an online gamer. Any experiences/thoughts are most welcome. Tried searching stuff online, but I couldn't figure out how to access stuff on NCBI and didn't find much on ACM either.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Using Morae Recorder+Observer: Yes or no?

2008-06-18 Thread Manish Pillewar
Definitely helps Jerome. You, for one are not making the participant conscious of being watched. Secondly, it always helps to have the stakeholders sit with you ( in a different room: you can project it on the wall if you want ) and observe whats happening. Thats a big win actually. When devs,

[IxDA Discuss] Functional Testing Vs Usability Testing ?

2008-04-21 Thread Manish Pillewar
Where unit tests deal with checking for coding errors at class levels, functional testing is more from an end users perspective. But the major difference between a functional test and an usability test would be the lack of design principles to evaluate for and having the users perspective while

[IxDA Discuss] Usability Testing Costs?

2008-03-10 Thread Manish Pillewar
with one usability tester on board? Offshore and client onsite both. Info on the pricing would be most helpful. Thanks and Regards Manish Pillewar www.thoughtworks.com __ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. The World's Favourite Email http

Re: [IxDA Discuss] User stories vs. user personas

2008-02-26 Thread Manish Pillewar
those persona ) would definitely help predict the usage of the application better.Ideally, at least. well, I guess I'm just repeating what Dmitry said earlier. Manish Pillewar Thought-Designer :-) www.thoughtworks.com Oliver, User stories and personas are not mutually exclusive. A persona

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Where are all the designers?

2008-02-20 Thread Manish Pillewar
this: In Bangalore or Goa you will not spend more than $600-$700 on the best rented apartment you can dream of( swimming pool n all :-)) Cheers! :P Manish Pillewar UXD-Thoughtworks Bangalore Thanks and Regards Manish Govind Pillewar Sr. User Experience Designer Thoughtworks India Pvt. Ltd.Bangalore

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Differnce between user interface and interactio design?

2008-01-24 Thread Manish Pillewar
Just some random thoughts: The idea of Define a designation dictionary for designers is a really uphill task. The very nature of designers to be different and not fall into a rules bucket, is an issues itself. Our responsibilities stretch across different domains and expertise. While some of us

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Amusing job post - UX researcher, mad SQL 2000 skillz required

2007-12-04 Thread Manish Pillewar
I'll second that. The job is for a User Researcher and its pretty valid that he understand the clients technologies better: a platform he has to work on. It could be finding programming patterns or limitations of using SQL or Java or C++ in relation to UI design. Let me point out this line You