Posted by admin on May 17, 2010 in
UI Design Hey,
Today, I was surfing for some good example of eComerce sites and found many very good examples, every one has done a very good job on presentation, navigation, different functionality for product gallery etc. etc. but only missing element I found and its a most important called “Color Calibration” for product photography, at-lest that part of eComerce site should look consistence and smiler to every one and have feeling of actual product, and if we can think of consumer rights 
it is important.
I am really not aware about if some one has invented the codec yet to identify the colors of native system (by image it self), BUT this is the area that can change the life of ecommerce and break records of AVATAR.
Looking forward for getting your comments on the same…
Posted by admin on Feb 3, 2010 in
UI Design Hey All,
As usual with a large Apple product launch and becomes a talk of the town (.. as people like to talk about every new gizmos comes in to the market for showing their greater technical knowledge … ) , but obviously I am also feeling like other feels that ipad may soon renders the laptop soon, as it’s so easy to use, surf, watch video, read books etc.,
…. end yes, also seems that it will soon become very loving for people who have habit of reading news paper in restroom.. , with all extra features of iphone, ipod that not other electronic books have….
Discuss and get this discussion move till it lasts…
Warm Regards,
Sharad
P.S. also review following link for finding good, the bad, and the ugly side if iPad UI…
http://blog.cocoia.com/2010/ipad-ui-roundup/
Tags: design, interface, ipad, iphone, laptop, mobile ui, UI, use, UX
Posted by admin on Jul 24, 2009 in
UI Design I have worked on 3 different CMS theme design and integration, I have noticed lots of loop holes that need to take care in CMS products available In market like joomala, drupal, wordpress
Let’s start with Wordpress…
As WP is not only now stick to BLOGing; but also people are using it as a readymade corporate or company web site, people now a day’s considering WP as a next generation readymade UI for web design (designers may be afraid of this… ), I can say it can be readymade UI that you can just do plug and play…
But still there is lots of loopholes you can find when you design a theme for WP, even when you are integrating theme with wp-admin; it will give you mess and headache for learning more PHP/JS/JQery, there for they need to give flexibility for just importing your HTML directly, then only they can say “do not worry start using it…” , so on with drupal, joomla and all available CMS…
Need to write a lot on this but because of some time constraint I am leaving this toping here for discussion and will talk more on all CMS…
I also want all of yours views on the same…
Tags: CMS, drupal, joomla, UI, usability, wordpress, WP
Posted by admin on Oct 12, 2008 in
UI Design These are ten general principles for user interface design. They are called “heuristics” because they are more in the nature of rules of thumb than specific usability guidelines.
- Visibility of system status
- The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time.
- Match between system and the real world
- The system should speak the users’ language, with words, phrases and concepts familiar to the user, rather than system-oriented terms. Follow real-world conventions, making information appear in a natural and logical order.
- User control and freedom
- Users often choose system functions by mistake and will need a clearly marked “emergency exit” to leave the unwanted state without having to go through an extended dialogue. Support undo and redo.
- Consistency and standards
- Users should not have to wonder whether different words, situations, or actions mean the same thing. Follow platform conventions.
- Error prevention
- Even better than good error messages is a careful design which prevents a problem from occurring in the first place. Either eliminate error-prone conditions or check for them and present users with a confirmation option before they commit to the action.
- Recognition rather than recall
- Minimize the user’s memory load by making objects, actions, and options visible. The user should not have to remember information from one part of the dialogue to another. Instructions for use of the system should be visible or easily retrievable whenever appropriate.
- Flexibility and efficiency of use
- Accelerators — unseen by the novice user — may often speed up the interaction for the expert user such that the system can cater to both inexperienced and experienced users. Allow users to tailor frequent actions.
- Aesthetic and minimalist design
- Dialogues should not contain information which is irrelevant or rarely needed. Every extra unit of information in a dialogue competes with the relevant units of information and diminishes their relative visibility.
- Help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors
- Error messages should be expressed in plain language (no codes), precisely indicate the problem, and constructively suggest a solution.
- Help and documentation
- Even though it is better if the system can be used without documentation, it may be necessary to provide help and documentation. Any such information should be easy to search, focused on the user’s task, list concrete steps to be carried out, and not be too large.
Tags: heuristics, usability
