Finally, The superhero epic knocking soon at theaters this summer. The epic seems more serious, bloody, dark, painful and glorious. The theme is visually appealing than ever made cinemas. The actors and characters seems heroic and scary then ever.
I like to featured this promo as another record breaking epic story telling. Cannot wait to watch it 
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It’s been already long time researching, experimenting and working in how design works. There are numbers of theories, practices and myths in design conceptualization. Today, I want to focus on things, that are not working after implementing the proven theories and practices before bringing them to professional tables. Design has so many things, people don’t understand or design not enough to send targeted message on audience. This may be the problem in designers or may be the marketing people cannot present them well. Therefore, Everyone working in something presentable must be very clear, what they are asking public to view in that presentation.
Companies, focused in designs for website, user-interfaces of applications, apps for different platforms and devices usually have numbers of strong portfolio designers. They work hard enough to make the things visible for the customers of the products they are developing, but when they failed somewhere and somehow, then its really a big mess, huge chunk of rubbish out there to clean up for designers for another working day, week and month.
Designers, always work hard to express their messages using their skills. They manage themselves to go beyond the imagination and craft something never seen before. The creative part of the designers come here but again, different people have different perspectives to view same object and a lot of comments comes out to make designers frustrated. This does not ends here. Again, he/she goes per comments and realize them, if they are valid and works more than his/her perspective. Designers have huge chances of getting confusing here, which degree of view is perfect than all of them. This creates the illusion and more blur view of same message in designer’s eye.
The next part starts after he gets confusion and start to retouch the design created. Designer’s mind already in total confusion, eyes blur, target feels missed and think about the next change. This is going to be more mess and total disaster then ever. Everything in the screen start not working perfect as before it got commented, the graphics act funny presentations, the topography already seems dancing with their different family types and they flow of the information seems lost its way. The lines used, beautiful curves goes distracted and not pixel refined. The icons gets angry for using it in wrong meaning titles, where as title already in bad mood for being bigger than enough. In the same time links undefined itself what it was actually.
Finally, Designer feels murdered with his/her own created design and throws everything saying its time for giving up! Just follow or copy what the boss, project manager or team lead likes. That’s makes another designer victory to get over something done which makes creative designer totally failure in his skills. So, If you think, you are good designer then be able to make understand what is your design communicates to the public.
Any company, if don;t have designers dare to give perfect understandable message or the designers following boss perspective. Please, throw out your designers out of your company. Any people who cannot see their designer’s perspective working in the team, please throw him as well. Its easier life for both parties. Just chill, have fun and enjoy what you do!
We, humans, are always surrounded with a lot of information and have a huge pressure on our mind to analyze them in order to make a successful choice. There are so many data we have to deal in our daily life. The data are always important, but they may differ according to place and time. We all have to interact with these data but every individual gets it in his/her perspective and understands these data in his/her own way and uses it to decide what the particular data means; This is the crucial part for any information architect to design and present any information. The same content may provide different meanings to different people from different cultures, places and with different languages.
The interactive designer has to be careful while designing any information for public. Designer has to analyze the same information from different perspective and its effect on each individual from different geography and culture. We can find many guidelines outlining usability principles, we should practice when building an app, a website or a product. Initially, we need to take care about the following important guidelines.
1. MOTIVATE THE USERS:
We need to design the information so that it motivates the users to use your platform as the first place. The design should motivate the users to come and find required information in a way they want to view it.
2. INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE:
The information flow should fulfill the users’ wants. The users develop a certain habit of viewing the information. Such as they will be looking for submit button right after the end of the form. This flow to the users’ search requires information on the human manners and expectation.
3. CLICKS:
The designer can force the users to change their flow of consuming information with buttons and navigations. He can make users to give up their old way and follow new, often easier way to get to their required information.
4. RESPONSE:
The clicks and navigation always lets the users to expect the result of their effort to click. There should not be much confusion in banners, ads, links and buttons. The designer must provide an appropriate response when the users put an effort to click.
5. TESTING:
The human interaction should always be tested before it’s executed to real implementation. The interaction must be working in the way designer wants and must be responded by users in the way they want them.
Finally, there are many more guidelines to create human interactions to designs, information and data grids, we have created. The main purpose of the interaction design should be to make human life easier and less burdensome at the flow of the information taking place on their screens.
When i took this picture with my hand phone, I din’t think much. I was passing by and saw them resting in the dusty way in mid-day sun. As I see this in my computer after few days, then really all among the pictures i have, this catches my attention a lot. Its really speaks the life behind this globalized century.
Scene: This the way main way for more than 5,000 people walk everyday for their needs to be alive. The way was around 100 years old, but still the same. The two guys like any other travelers as me are on the behind, one of them holding clay pot, but their jeans shows, they are younger generations. The man with very dirty dress and bag is very old and the woman is sleeping in the middle of the way without caring any of those travelers. We can imagine the life over there with this picture.
I din’t talk to them this time. but those young guys told me, She was drunk very morning and traveling somewhere. So she is taking rest there. But i asked why in the middle of the way and its 12noon? They answer nothing.
Every time i look this picture, it reminds me the life around the world who don;t have proper drinking water, enough food and clothes rather than transport, education, health and city facilities. Its impossible to think smart phones, apps, Facebook, and whole internet. Its so hard to think, how they are living. We all are humans and there are thousands, millions meetings, human right organizations to discuss the better human life or making everyone’s life better or equal. I think, this picture is enough to speak, the gap between rich and poor is increasing more and more…..!
After I return same way after 5 hrs, i saw the man and woman just woke up and started their journey. The place was deep valley and the sunset over there is around 2pm, with the less hope to their destination.. they were walking slowly in the evening…still i din’t dare to ask, where are you going so late?
Just few months, the tournament was held in Chitwan National Park, Chitwan. There was huge mass to watch how elephant plays soccer. It’s the part of Visit Nepal 2011. so it was fun over there. Check out some pictures.
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Hi everyone. It went long gap for my updates. There are so many digital articles in www everyone are busy for reading them. So I keep on reading them rather posting or writing myself. I got new article in smashing magazine which is very helpful to most of designer doing web and ui both. They have listed all the design principles, tools, rules and methodologies for web and ui separately. I think the article talks more about designer’s difficulties for web and ui designing. Check out the complete article in the link.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/02/25/designing-user-interfaces-for-business-web-applications/
thanks!
When we come near to any old business clients, they will approach us with their existing website and ask designers to make it new product. They always want to make their website represent their business. This leads the Redesign of the websites. We have to do all of practices to make it successful product which last for next design trends….. For me Redesign is refreshing business attitude of the company or business represented by the website.
Here are few Redesign: Best Practices I found and followed.
Redesigning a website is a big job (needless to say) and should be handled with care. Many of us with a portfolio, blog or other website have probably thought about a redesign or at least know we need one. For many designers, though, that redesign never comes. As big and important as it is, the job can turn into a hugely daunting task that we put straight on the backburner of our to-do list.
Why is doing a simple redesign so daunting? Why is it so difficult to follow through, even when we’ve decided to do it? How can we work on designing our clients’ websites successfully every day and then perpetually neglect our own?
The problem is both a lack of correct planning and a lack of understanding of the root need for the redesign. Once we’ve identified these elements, we’re set for success. In this article, we’ll discuss how to plan and execute a redesign, and how to find the perfect timing for it.
There are plenty of highly-useful resources and web apps that have been created with freelance designers and developers in mind. But for many freelancers, especially those who are just getting started, pricing can be an issue. In this post we’ll feature 29 resources that are not only very useful fore …
Hi CSS developers, I found very nice and useful article in the topic “Object Oriented CSS’? So what is the logics behind it. I like to share it with all my friends and visitors of this websites. Please check out the article, it pretty interesting and logical. It will be helpful for your knowledge upgrading.
What is Object-Oriented CSS?
Object-oriented CSS, at its core, is simply writing cleaner, DRYer CSS. It’s not a different language: still the same old CSS we all know and love. It’s just a paradigm shift. Really, object-oriented CSS is a few simple patterns and best practices.
So why call it object-oriented?
Well, according to Wikipedia, Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm that uses “objects” — data structures consisting of datafields and methods — and their interactions to design applications and computer programs.
If we were to re-write that definition for object-oriented CSS, it might say something like this:
“Object-oriented CSS is a coding paradigm that styles “objects” or “modules”—nestable chunks of HTML that define a section of a webpage—with robust, reusable styles.”
This basically means that you have a standard “object” (an HTML structure). Then, you have CSS classes that you apply to objects, which define the design and flow of the object.
Confused? Let’s look a bit of theory.
I wanted to post this picture everywhere in all social networks. Everyone may be thinking what is special with this simple …. picture which is caught with simple 5megapixel phone camera.
This year 2009, India have great year with a lot of visitors. I think, around January 2010 the report for this event will report success of the visit India 2009 year. But for me It’s worst. They promote the visit India 2009 with tag lines “Incredible India” and “The Land of The Buddha”. I don’t feel bad with first tag line…. but it hearts a lot when they promote with second tag line. It hearts more than a bullet went through my body. In the year 2009 India promoted their Visit India 2009 in Singapore with this tag line and with picture of Buddha in most busy mrt station where 200 people per minute cross the way in average. Every time I cross that way, it makes me feel so bad and upset. It gets more worst when I see promotion with new picture are changed in every 2 or 3 months with same tag line. But I cannot do anything. I even cannot ask Singapore Government why they authorized Visit India 2009 to promote with wrong information.
I am just surprised… how can country like Singapore lets to promote it, where news have to censored through. And why India wants to promote with fake promotion, except I am not surprised with ignorance of Nepal government. It’s as usual. They even cannot do anything, if they have information also. But being Nepali it’s so hard to see that promotion.