Scrapblog March 30, 2007
Posted by dpramod in Adobe, Flex, Misc.add a comment
Quite interesting – also coz it’s done in Flex. Some day i’ll start a survey – “List of things you cant do using Flex”…
Pretty wife – find some answers March 27, 2007
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So now you found some good input’s, now you have questions…well register yourself on this group – http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/FlexApolloUI/.
All questions related to UI/Apollo will be answered here!
Pretty Wife March 23, 2007
Posted by dpramod in Adobe, Flex.add a comment
Once I asked my boss “Boss why is User experience so important?”, this was some years back.
“pD, everyone wants a pretty wife”!
It’s so true! You might have the best “features” like, understanding, good cook, caring, loving, etc. but marriage happens on the first sight – all you see is how pretty she is! Guys you will argue this, for sure!
Selling an app to a prospect is trying to make a marriage! show him a pretty looking girl, he’ll compromise to a certain extent on the features set!
Great UI’s have simple, pretty looking interfaces. These interfaces speak the list of features themselves!
So the next time you think of selling a app, think about skinning the same – else the “marriage” wont happen.
Here’s how you can create great skins in Flex.
Talking about tissue+booze… March 9, 2007
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Here’s a way to take the same Tissue paper (napkin) effect into your demos, prototype etc. It’s really a cool effect and serves the purpose.
Easy to implement!
tissues+booze are the best brainstorming tools…but March 9, 2007
Posted by dpramod in Brainstorm.add a comment
It’s a busy day, and an even busier evening in a local bar. The pubs now a days are crowed and noisy. Local bars are more economical – cheap liquor and compromise-able food.
One particular table is noisier – me and couple of us are on tissue papers! Hey wait, scribbling, in fact scribbling the design flow of our new app.
“What do you think”
“This is not happening….why would someone come here and then click this button to get their sales info?”
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“Sir, any more” the steward asked….
“repeat!!!”….
“who are the users???” the conversation continued
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“Sir, last order” it was time to wrap and wrap the tissues also….my manager might not necessarily accept these.
We have forgotten the flow (effect of the flow of booze), we got to retype – bosses don’t even want reimburse the bill; will they accept the tissues?
How I wish we could convert them into something more intuitive – more visual, I hate ppt!!
While tissues+booze are the best brainstorming tools there are some ‘softer’, better tools – some with a price and now some are free also!
Mindjets Mindmanager: The best I feel has great features! You can create a Project file from a mind map!
Some of the free online mind mapping tools -
http://www.bubbl.us/, http://www.mindomo.com/index.php
This one might yet be free http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/
