Too often in our enthusiasm to get the look and feel right, we forget that Content makes up for one of the primary deliverables. Content planning (what, why) and delivery (How, When, Where) is key to design so next time when you are creating those pretty wire-frames inserting “Lorem Ipsum….” pause, think is this good content?
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Content influences design
Thursday, March 4th, 2010Passwords – Usability and tips to remember them
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009Sometimes you come across articles that make you go “Huh! Wish someone told me that earlier” . Here are two that will help you create highly secure, usable and easy to remember passwords.
- The Usability of Passwords by Thomas Baekdal
- The best password remembering tip you’ll ever encounter at jjmelo.com
Hope these help you to create usable, secure and easy to remember passwords 
Audience Based Optimisation – The better way to SEO
Monday, May 11th, 2009You may have already heard or read on numerous blogs and online portals the various methods to increase ranking on search results. Most of these articles, if not all, focus on SEO and optimising pages or content for search engine spiders. But, what about the User?
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is not about optimising for these Google bots or XYZ search engine but more about optimising for humans, for users – your target audience. Here is what I call, Audience Based Optimisation (ABO), comes in.
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SixthSense – integrating information with the real world
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009‘SixthSense’ is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.
Quote from wired.com
Students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. The wearer can summon virtual gadgets and internet data at will, then dispel them like smoke when they’re done.
Watch video of student Pranav Mistry who is described as the brains behind the project. Mistry wears the device on a lanyard around his neck, with coloured Magic Marker caps on four fingers (red, blue, green and yellow) which helps the camera distinguish the four fingers and recognise his hand gestures with software that he created.
More at the SixthSense website.
More iPhone 3G – SMS/Text messages
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009The iPhone 3G and what it lacks for SMS/Text messaging:
- No Copy/Paste feature
- No SMS/Text Forwarding facility
- No facility to SMS/Text multiple recipients
- No Character count
- SMS Preview a privacy concern (can be turned off but a bit cumbersome to do so)
For the good parts, the iPhone 3G does have some pretty useful applications available. I have been using the Map application and Twitterific extensively. Also, the WiFi allows me to check emails, use Twitter, Facebook, download podcasts directly to my iPhone, all using my internet connection at home. This way I save on the data usage allocated by my service provider and can use it on the road the next time I’m lost again
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