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  • Posted on January 18, 2012

Scroller v/s Ajax loading

Simple but clever design adoption. A content scroller inside a paragraph than ajax content loading at dachisgroup.com website. An interesting interface design approach always builds the gap between information and design.

Content can be presented in various ways.  It’s so attractive that, this piece of interaction is actually sitting inside, where company is canvassing for social design and thus by attracting the reader to take a look at their business solution as a whole.

Take a time to view this interesting paragraph design in dachisgroup.com

  • Posted on January 18, 2012

Online collaboration with Stixyboards

Collaboration is the next jig ! may it be corporate business or project discussion; all in all: Facebook-like real time collaboration is the buzzword.

I am heavily into merging Social communication into Business collaboration now a days. Hence bumping-on-to interesting ones in that league :)

Stixy is an online bulletin board. You can create as many Stixyboards as you like, one for each project. Use Stixy to easily organize and share: your family’s schedule, projects at work, an upcoming holiday, your photos, or share a file or two with a friend.

It’s worth advanced playing with stixy.com

  • Posted on January 06, 2012

India’s first urban SUV – Ford Ecosport

Finally, Ford has dared to carve a new market segment with Ecosport, touted to be a first urban SUV, with an absolutely stunning form factor.

The new crossover is slightly smaller than the CR-V, with a very strong design language. It looks stunning in orange with the black detailing especially the mirror-finished black roof accent and roof rails.

Quite interestingly, the design perspective of Automakers towards cars are changing in India. This year’s Auto Expo 2012 had one of the finest breed of radical designs to show-case.

Though most of these models are teaser-concepts, displaying concept vehicle specially for India, is not that fad. So it’s safe to assume that, many would dare to release radical yet elegant designs in 2012.

And that’s why I am eagerly looking forward to upgrade my hatchback to urban monster, if this could complement traffic heavy commute of Bangalore !

» Explore Ford Ecosport

  • Posted on December 12, 2011

Root Samsung Galaxy Note


[New Galaxy Note with my mom's Nokia ]

Rooting is the process by which user regain administrative access to android phone.

Even though Android is an open source operating system user still don’t have full “root access” to do what user please. Rooting Android phone enables you to use the superuser, or root, permissions of the Linux-based operating system

I rooted my brand new Galaxy Note with clockworkmod recovery. It worked like  slicing a butter ! I’m more used to this approach as I did it with my previous HTC-HD2.

Android-authority has a compiled article on How to Root Samsung Galaxy Note

  • Posted on December 01, 2011

Five Manifestos for the Creative Life


Some days everyone needs a little extra encouragement.

The words or lines or colors don’t want to come, or worse, we don’t even want to sit down to create. That’s when we turn to these inspiring manifestos, any one of which is guaranteed to give our uncooperative creativity a sharp kick in the pants.

Here are five of our favorite contemporary manifestos that nudge ideas out of your head and into the hands of the world.

» As it’s in brainpickings.org

  • Posted on November 30, 2011

Usable design components at Samsung site

Samsung’s Official Global Blog site has some interesting ‘User interface elements’ to leverage usefulness of the navigation-purpose. This showcases, clever interaction design  in enriching user experience !

» Right Tabs at the right place – When user lands into the site, sub tabs in center content column leads him to content-grouping based on priority. The site has used clever large-header image to focus interesting eye-ball attention to subsequent tabs.

» Innovative pagination – This is surely an interesting ‘User interface’ to tame the ever growing content of the site.

User can scroll sideways using slider to view aggregated pages.

It’s very useful versus ‘typical pagination‘ because,  individual pages of the site don’t have tobe load every time user clicks on pagination numbers. It aggregates the needed content in the form of numbers inside wide-slider-control. Quite clever indeed !

Just with two  highly usable design elements site has succeeded in complementing the clever information architecture of the site !

» Experience the power of useful interaction design

  • Posted on November 26, 2011

Note, this is Galaxy ‘Phablet’ !

When I saw Samsung Galaxy-Note for the first time, this is what I felt – Vivid. Thin. Big. Fast. It’s a breed between between smartphone and a tablet. I ensured, no delay in owning one !

Samsung calls it “a new kind of smartphone“, gizmo world calls it – “a Phablet” ! All I wanted was  freedom from multiple devices.

Samsung has defied all those unwritten rules and carved a new segment of whopping 5.3-inch Super AMOLED HD display + 1280X800 resolution making the device much wider and taller than any conventional smartphone !

Here’s the size comparison v/s iPhone-4.  The screen of the Galaxy-Note is even bigger than the entire body of the iPhone-4. It’s thin, light weight, with big beautiful screen.

Under the hood, the Galaxy-Note features a 1.4GHz dual-core processor, which keeps things moving at pace paired with 1GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage plus the strong 2500mAh battery to prolong Galaxy-Note experience.

My favorite feature in Galaxy-Note is s-pen Stylus. I design interfaces & do lot of design sketches, wireframing etc., s-pen Stylus comes real handy in that case. Not to forget, I’m a doodle-freak and now this is a fantastic creative companion :)

Lastly, don’t miss Galaxy Note features shown off in videos

  • Posted on November 20, 2011

What if some one reading your Gmail secretly ?

Other day, my home internet connection went for a toss . And had to send an emergency mail. So obvious choice was next door cyber cafe. Been there and done that.

Voila ! what a rude shock ! Next day, when I accessed Gmail at office, I got a notification that, my Gmail ID was used to create a Facebook & some other accounts. What the heck ? I never created new Facebook profile in last two days. Then who did what with my login credentials ?

Crux was, some one got hold of my Gmail password after my cyber cafe browsing episode and tried to impersonate me. Isn’t it dangerous when you’ve bank-statements, important documents, spreadsheets & Picasa photos are under one Gmail hood ?

I started sensing the dangers of ‘virtual world’ ! I’ve read a lot about people  got hacked with their accounts and I never thought one day, I would be the victim of it !

I went paranoid after that incident, which is obvious when you’ve have highly sensitive information is stored in Gmail.I access Gmail in variety of devices. I don’t remember, how many times I’ve changed my password.

That being said, mine is a solid use-case for Google to come with a novel ‘extra level of security’ that I’ve seen often in Banking sites and corporate authentication. That’s why Google is the most trusted partner by many who have their vulnerable & highly sensitive information stored in Gmail servers.

Gmail is flashing notifications about how to Enable 2-step verification to protect your account. Learn how to make your account a hack proof !