Net Neutrality and what it means for us in India

Posted by admin on September 28, 2010, Add a comment

Let me start with a question. Would you be willing to pay extra to have a particular content delivered to you at a premium price, so that you can access the same information faster? Or would you be willing to pay for a service that can be delivered on a higher priority as compared to [...]

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MAC 2010 Conference Updates

Posted by admin on September 26, 2010, Add a comment

The general impression that we take away from this conference was that the conference was more focused towards the applications developer crowd. Having said that, even from a Design firm point of view, there were a lot of takeaways. Mentioned below are some of them from the different sessions.

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Workshop at McAfee

Posted by admin on September 23, 2010, Add a comment

We recently conducted a workshop at McAfee India, at their location in Bangalore. The participants comprised of people from the development teams and people working in the UI/UX teams. One of the core focus of the workshops at Deskala is been to make it more interactive and ensure that the participants get a first hand [...]

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Usability / UX workshop at Pune

Posted by admin on June 17, 2010, Comments Off

We recently conducted a Usability and User Experience workshop at L & T Infotech, Pune. Total 25 participants comprising of Developers, Business Analysts and people from Testing. More details and updates from the workshop  to follow.

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Exploring New User Interfaces

Posted by admin on June 7, 2010, Add a comment

We recently came across a lot of tweets and articles on the new trends in the User Interface domain. There is definitely a lot of exciting stuff going on. What’s eagerly awaited is to see actually how many of them will be a great epitome of “User Experience”, the parameter on which almost everything seems [...]

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Getting People to Talk

Posted by admin on May 10, 2010, Add a comment

That’s one of the most difficult thing we face as User/Design researchers, especially in the areas that we do our research on. In the research that we have conducted in the western countries and in India, we notice that there are certain differences in the way people answer questions. However the most basic problem we [...]

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Management Intern Required

Posted by admin on May 10, 2010, 2 Comments

Current Openings 1. Deskala, is looking out for a Management Intern for a duration of 6-8 weeks starting from the first week of June 2010. Management Intern Requirement at Deskala (part-time) If you Are currently pursuing a management course at a reputed institute and are looking for industry experience Have a keen interest in Marketing [...]

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10 most common misconceptions about UX

Posted by admin on May 3, 2010, 1 Comment

We came across this very awesomely done and interesting presentation by Whitney Hess. I think this is something that everyone should see in terms of understanding the field(s) that Deskala functions in. We present ourselves as a User Experience (UX) firm and not a UI firm. User Interfaces (UI) comes just as a small entity [...]

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On Design Evangelism – Part 2

Posted by admin on April 27, 2010, Add a comment

Disclaimer: All images used in this post are from the respective company’s websites and are not taken by any members of Deskala. The copyright of these images rest with the respective organizations. The images are used here for illustrative purposes only. After years of working in the UX field, I feel that there is a [...]

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