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Getting feedbacks to improve User Expereince actually blocks innovation. (Credit: activeside)
In one of my previous posts, I have discussed a different approach to solve user experience related problems. Today I am going to discuss how a developer’s or a designer’s awesome design can turn out to be a useless crap. One truth we tend to forget and I am going to remind now is that our users are the group of people who uses the product. Quite simple. So, what I am really trying to accomplish but reminding this?
As I discussed previously, a common practice is to think, when we approach to a user experience related problem is that users will misuse the product or they will use it in a manner, they are not supposed to. I prescribed to think that the user will use it properly (or at least will think that is the proper way) and the designers need to figure that out. It is nothing new or unique. A very common good practice in the industry is to present/demo the product to the potential clients and taking their feedback. Definitely it works most cases; but I strongly against this approach. Probably as a check mark this can be done; but this can not be the primary or focused approach to improve the user experience or usability. More than that, this approach blocks potential awesome innovations. Read more »
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This year, IEEE Carleton has won the Canadian IEEE Student Branch website contest again. Second time in a row! Congrats everyone who were associated with the development! 
For those who are curious, can visit http://ieee.carleton.ca
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This is a common phenomenon while designing a product, a designer or developer is advised to think that s/he is designing a product for a complete idiot (UTS= User Too Stupid). Starting from that point, the designers have to come up with all possible scenarios. However, I completely disagree with that approach. The approach I am going to talk about is we, the designers, need to think that the users are smarter people than we can imagine of. If anything is wrong, then probably that is because we were not smart enough. The bravery of taking the responsibility of your own work gives you the opportunity to solve a particular problem the user experienced.
Always remember “Your program is as smart as you”.
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I just dreamed a dream.. I hope this will be my last dream of my undergraduate life. 
Disclaimer: All the characters in this story are from VLSI lab. The dream is true, but the event did not take place in real life…
For an unknown reason my dream took place in an underground tunnel inside Carleton University, which looked like an old subway tunnel, and still there are some unused cars on the rail. In the dream, I got cold, yet I was not coughing. Read more »
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OpenCV is a library for digital image processing which supports C, C++ and Python. It runs both in Windows and Linux. However installing OpenCV is not straight forward. I don’t know why such popular library is left like this.
Here is one article which explains easy installation. However, I will add scripts for installing OpenCV later.
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3Pi is a mobile robot which is famous for maze solving related problems. In this tutorial, I have assumed, the user is using following hardware:
This article contains presentation, necessary windows softwares, and resources (including Linux installation). Read more »
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Web is huge- about 1.7 billion people use it. You may ask, while talking about the size of web, why I have used the number of people instead of number of website? The answer lies in the modern web technologies. Probably I would use the number of websites, if it were the era of web 1.0 technologies only. But web 2.0 has given power to people. There were few good reasons for that. Web 1.0 was becoming so huge, it became almost impossible for the administrators to keep all the information updated. There were too less help and too much information. Thanks to web 2.0, which enabled any user to update those information.
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Is this the future we are looking at? Why are we so self-centric?
This picture was taken after 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference took place.
