Personalization of User Interface By vijay on January 21, 2011 — 1 min read … if we are competent user interface designers and can make our interfaces nearly optimal, personalizations can only make the interface worse. Therefore, we must be sparing and deliberate in offering user customizations. If a user can, by a few judicious choices, really improve the interface, we probably have done a poor job. On the... More
UX Won't Save You By vijay on August 26, 2010 — 1 min read Why should you have a proper product roadmap, instead of implementing every feature request from the customers: Customer feature requests are closely tied to Customer Acquisition. Every product should have a clear roadmap and a clear understanding of what the product does and does not do. If your team does not have this in place,... More
→ Simplicity isn't that simple – 52 Weeks of UX By vijay on April 25, 2010 — 1 min read Anyone who occupies themselves with the task of creating truly usable products becomes instantly aware that achieving simplicity is not that simple. For any single feature in a product we must take into account the way it looks, the way it functions, its place in the overall system, affordances to help convey context of how and why it... More
