Thoughts from the heights of an abyss
From the category archives:
My email is typically out of control. I routinely used to have messages that were more than a 4-5 months old in the Inbox. My offline pst was large, with a folder structure to reflect the different activities I did. Moving messages to specific folders was pain, so was searching for a particular message, or [...]
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Problem How to measure the time spent on a task? There are a variety of methods, ranging from time keeping in a paper journal to little notes of paper and electronic variety that have been proposed and used. But each of these requires the individual to take note of the start and end times.
This [...]
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“Hire customers as employees”- found this gem of a quote on a podcast by Scoble about Smugmug. This was given as the best decision taken by Don MacAskill, CEO of Smugmug.
I’d like to mull through that statement a little. Of course the specific industry you work for, or the service you sell might not [...]
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Software engineers are not the artistic type. For every algorithm and data structure they learn and practice, there are a hundred soft issues that do not think about. By soft issues I mean usability, aesthetics and all the general goo that makes us like something as humans.
Bloody hard to define and have one consistent answer, [...]
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Availability and access points for content is getting deeply pervasive. From blogs to RSS feeds to ebooks to mashups, we have indeed come a long way. Man’s quest for information/knowledge/gossip/porn has given rise to a bunch of means to facilitate easier assimilation.
To this list of tools, now we can add DailyLit. The service is [...]
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I have had Office 12 installed on my machine for a week now. And the thing that am persistently returning too is OneNote 2007.
The little tweaks and changes have made it a much more usable product than OneNote 2003.
The Outlook integration and shared sessions has to be my favorite, amongst others.
But I have this nagging feeling am [...]
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Got my beta invite for Spock, the people search engine. And went through the motions of getting myself added.
My initial observations follow:
Upon providing user name, you are given a list of social networking type sites that have a possible match to you
Liked the identity assertion mechanism where you select the site that you are already on [...]
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In response to Rohan Thomas’ questions on User Experience in his blog post here -
My answers to all 3 questions(what does it mean to you, is it important to your customers/you and does it add to ROI) are crucial element, yes and yes respectively.
I see Ux as one of those intangibles that goes into making [...]
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