World Usability Day 2007, Bangalore November 5th and over 100 designers, technologists, usability professionals and public attendees gathered at the NIAS Auditorium at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. The event: World Usability Day, which was founded to ensure that the services and products important to life are easier to access and simpler to use.
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3 Comments » “The Best Government and PSU Site award was given to IRCTC India” by “Genius of the Web“. Here’s the Case-Study and Selection Criteria“. (don’t miss reading “Parameter Set 3: End-user Experience”) This CLEARLY illustrates the need for organizations like UPA Bangalore and Chi-Bangalore to vehemently evangelize usability, not just to the Indian PSUs but also
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Along with Amit Pande, Sridhar Marri and Param, I was interviewed by Shazeeye Kirmani and spoke about emerging usability trends in India.
Heuristic : Ease of Error Recovery Many a times, after sending an e-mail, Users realize that they’ve done a terrible mistake and would want to “UNDO” the same. Thanks to the dynamic client sided validation, one need to type the entire e-mail addresses of recipients and instead choose from a suggested list. This feature also
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Here’s an interesting article “Usability: Making Innovation Truly Effective” on , IT Magazine‘s May 2007 issue. And for some shameless self promotion, i was quoted in this article. I also gave an example- scenario to highlight usability bugs that Users face, while booking online “Return Tickets” at the Indian Railways website www.irctc.co.in
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