Product management lessons based on experience I have had with Samsung Galaxy S2.
Taste and Specification
April 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
What is taste? Why should you care? Isn’t a specification enough to build a product?
If This Then That
September 12, 2011 By 2 Comments
Between Flipboard and Zite on the iPad my primary means of consuming news and social media is a settled thing. But the workflow to act upon an information item is not consistent. A new startup IFTTT, aka ‘if this then that‘, takes an excellent crack at the problem. To add more context, on Flipboard my [...]
Google Correlate Draw, Finds Data That Fits Drawn Pattern
September 6, 2011 By 1 Comment
Used to be that you first had data. Then you did analysis to figure out the patterns and trends in it. Now you imagine the pattern and Google Correlate Draw checks if there is a search term that correlates to your pattern. This is awesome. In case you can’t yet make out what the fuss [...]
Windows 8: Awesome UX, Not So Much Underneath
June 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Big news coming from the D9 conference around Microsoft. Its flagship OS gets a rethink with the tentatively codenamed Windows 8. Take a look. Simply love the concepts here. The tiles, ability to compose windows, IE 10.0 and more. But all the rush vanished when they showed Excel and Windows Explorer. You got to the [...]
Idea – Flipboard for Financial Research
May 18, 2011 By 2 Comments
Flipboard is a personalized, social magazine for online content. Currently an iPad app, it has completely revolutionized media consumption for me. Media consumption workflow Almost 90% of my online time is spent on iPad/Fliboard at home. My twitter, facebook and rss feeds all are rendered in beautiful magazine layout. Add the ability to share the [...]
Interactive Exploration of a Dynamical System
May 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Meet the fusion of data visualization, interactive exploration and touch based interfaces. Interactive Exploration of a Dynamical System from Bret Victor on Vimeo. Hope you are as excited as I am. This is not just a pretty visualization but can be a sign of how touch-based app interfaces can enable interaction with various end-points of [...]
Aphorisms on Graphic Design–Frank Chimero
February 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
John Maeda linked to a post by Frank Chimero via this tweet. The title of the post by Frank is rather innocuous, “What advise would you give to a graphic design student”. But I highly recommend you don’t take it at face value and head over right away and read it. Some sample quotes, if [...]
Designing for the End
February 8, 2011 By 1 Comment
Often times we value an object based on its durability. Of course aesthetics, utility and usability do play a big role, but even when all these are present, we value an object’s ability to endure contact with and usage by us. In that context I came across this post by Berg about Nike Mayfly shoes, [...]
My Facebook Network Visualized
January 6, 2011 By 2 Comments
I am fascinated by the idea of emergent behavior. Wikipedia defines it as “the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions”. In the context of interactions with our social circle, either in reality or virtually, there are patterns inherent in them that we are usually not aware of. [...]
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