Category Archives: Usability
Weathermob: Express how you feel about the Weather [App Review]
Weathermob is a niche social networking service for sharing information about local weather, much as Instagram is a service for sharing pictures. It lets you share what you’re feeling about local weather and see what your friends are saying about … Continue reading
8 Design Tips for Educating App Users
Mobile design is a constant struggle for simplicity. With so little screen space, it can be very challenging to pack the necessary functionality into the design while still keeping it streamlined and intuitive. In order for your users to get … Continue reading
How NOT to design for multiple screens: Pulse iPhone App Usability issues
Pulse is a news reader that aggregates feeds from various sources using RSS and presents them in a good looking interface. I’ve been using RSS Readers for a while and at a first glance Pulse seemed like a great leg … Continue reading
Android Gingerbread to focus on user experience and fragmentation to counter iPhone
Google’s core competency is engineering, not UX, and it showed through in its mastery of the implementation of features with iPhone always trying to catch up like with multi-tasking and copy/paste. However, Android UI looks plain vanilla compared to the … Continue reading
Going beyond Usability: The need to design for Persuasion, Emotion, and Trust
Dr. Eric Schaffer, founder and CEO of Human Factors International talks about his new design approach christened PET Design. It offers a new approach to help companies influence and deepen their interactions with online customers through Persuasion, Emotion, and Trust. … Continue reading
2009 Bad Usability Calendar
A quick post. 2009 Bad Usability Calendar is a one-page ebook that captures 12 usability mistakes on a single page. Must read for anyone desiging products.
Touch screen on mobiles is the new black, but will it overshadow the keypad
iPhone’s success has sent all the handset manufacturer’s scurrying to come up with a touch screen device of their own. We have seen touch screen devices being launched by all major players, even RIM which is mostly in the … Continue reading
Why isn’t Voice-based UI mainstream?
There’s a very interesting discussion this topic on IXDA. I have summarized the main reasons below Social Imagine 4 people in a small office all talking to their computers every 2 seconds to say “new window….scroll down… stop…up… select file….”. … Continue reading
Why haven’t Video Calls (Mobile Video Telephony) taken off?
Image via Wikipedia It was supposed to be the next big thing but it seems to have fizzled out like MMS. It failed in many 3G-enabled countries that deployed it. Gartner’s consumer mobile hype cycle (July 2007) claims that wireless … Continue reading
What I want from my Mobile Social Network
In a previous post Social Networking and the Mobile Phone, I had discussed how mobile can extend the reach of a social network and open up new ways of socializing. I have gone through a couple of mobile social networks … Continue reading
Technology, Mobility, Usability and other Musings 