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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 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 October 15, 2011

The Angry Birds Addiction

If you’ve not played ‘Angry Birds’, you’ve not lived in this tech era ! :)

I’ve played enough of it since the day of its release on Android. Played it in every possible place where ever I can carry my phone. It’s damn addictive and it’s not a new thing anymore.

There are days when you really feel like throwing something at somebody and angry birds is a safe enough antidote without actually breaking anything–things and feelings … this is what really makes it very appealing.

Someone calls it Angry Birds Addiction Syndrome. Not sure it’s a medical pathology yet, but for sure it’s the game that changed the history of mobile gaming.

This single-most-addictive game on my cell phone always made me ponder over ‘why it’s so additive and attractive’ ? is it because of simple graphic, is it for minimalistic controllers, is it because of highly usable & consumable gestures ? is it for dumbest of the dumb metaphor :), is it because of that unique combination of visuals and sound ? I don’t know !

A study by AYTM investigated the psychological and sociological motives behind the incredible success of Rovio’s invention. A great infographic helps “profiling” Angry Birds fans, and it proves useful to understand the mechanisms that trigger the success of the game as well as how consumers’ mood changes when playing the game.

>> Checkout  Angry birds addiction in infographics

  • Posted on October 03, 2011

Clever menu at Mc’donalds

Mc’donalds site uses classy User Interface design technique in menu navigation. It saves space and content clutter in a best possible manner !

Best thing about such an advanced menu structure is branding image artifacts can be easily and neatly fit into most meaningful content labeling and design. Visual design meets clever information architecture at corporate site of yummy & fatty burgers.

  • Posted on October 03, 2011

Firefox – UI technique

Data can be searched, formatted, over-viewed, and browsed in a variety of ways. Firefox is using neat in-line content call-out user-interface technique in add-on page. This is quite an interesting pattern which is already used in interesting ways in many places using Ajax to load content quickly.

This User Interface component is a great space saver and quick to learn the context of use. Mozilla has used this nicety UI-element in many areas to de-congest overtly crowded extension pages. It’s highly usable and at the same time user can navigate around pages giving prominence to most needed content.