I am often struck by the strong connection between user experience and architecture and how closely architectural design relates to user experience design. Designing physical spaces in architecture translates to designing digital spaces in UX; thus plans convert to sitemaps and instead of experience through footsteps within these buildings, users move through digital spaces [...]
“How is this design?” “It’s nice, but something is missing.” “What about it?” “I don’t know but how about you change the position of the slider to make it more obvious?” I just didn’t know what to do with that review from my friend. The next day I just decided to go ahead and [...]
For the first time in 30 years in India, the BJP government came to power with an absolute majority and it appeared through proposed promises projected through the campaign that Team Modi was ready with a game-changing plan for the country. It soon became apparent that Prime minister Narendra Modi has a vision larger [...]
The rationale for unbundling has emerged from the way we access mobile applications on our phones today. Unbundling essentially means extracting features within an existing larger application that users are already interacting with and creating a fresh experience based on this feature by expanding its capabilities outside of the constraints which exist in the [...]
“Oh, Solve this problem!” says somebody and that’s how every new design process commences. The quick questions that follow this vehement urge are ‘How to start?’ ‘Who is facing this problem?’ ‘Is it really needed?’. A thousand thoughts seem to rush inside the head. But, where to begin? The process would comprise of not [...]
An interpretation of Pablo Stanley’s ‘The Design Process’ https://thedesignteam.io/the-design-process-67df3e8ec68f#.iwg0qwfi5 Stanley rightly says that ‘ We are in the puberty years of User Experience’. UX is such a multi-dimensional field that it is very difficult to define any concept in UX as accurately as we do maybe in Science. The terminology has innumerable interpretations and that’s [...]
The importance of the study of user psychology for a designer cannot be overemphasized. It is well appreciated that the knowledge about nuances of behavior and the intricacies of mind affecting decisions and choices of individuals is so essential for creation of and enhancement in a design. Thus, we know that the first step [...]
Imagine this … U can’t believe when U are informed that U have landed onto your dream job at DesignD, one of the best design studios in New York, as Lead User Experience Designer. It is something U have always dreamed of; an office with a large glass window, splashing the whole of Manhattan skyline onto [...]