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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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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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Websecurity Credit : kevindean
May be the communication between two people at two different domains (time or space) started with the paintings on the stones by our very first ancestors. Today’s complicated communication networks are way matured; yet they need to be improved to cope with growing demand. While communication networks started to become more complicated, the “end of trust era” began. With the advent of telecommunication, web and all other media, the problem turned into a global crisis; which did not hit us bad enough yet. In this article I will discuss some growing issues, controversies, and our rights.
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It was a great pleasure for me to talk about Eclipse IDE today at Carleton. This was a warm up for IEEE Computer Society Carleton University SB Chapter’s new Lecture on Demand series. Technically it was the first lecture, but students will be offered a lot more topics to choose from in future.
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I got the error message “unknown filesystem type vboxsf” while I was trying to share a directory from my Windows XP host to Ubuntu Interpid Ibex (8.10). In almost every where it said to install Guest additions. After spending few hours I found the solution. So decided to share with you for reference.
Step 1: Install host additions (usually you install them when you install virualbox).
Step 2: If you have created a new machine, then create a shared directory/folder. (From the machine’s Devices menu)
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Italian architect Dr. David Fisher has just revealed a new era on building architecture- Building in Motion. His first design is being built in Dubai by 2010. This $330 million building will allow it’s tenants to park their car right inside their apartment.
Image: Rotating Tower Technology International Source: IEEE Spectrum
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At last some one from Portlan, Oregon has found a way to port (porting from portaland, is it a joke? 
) Linux kernel in iPhone bootloader yesterday. He has managed to load the kernel on iPhone means there is no graphics yet. There is another group working on the same project. Read more »
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Every year, a project named TOP500 releases two list of top 500 most powerful supercomputers – one in June and the other one in November.
They have recently released a top 500 super computer list. In June’s list, there were six super computers from usa, whereas they have nine super computers in the new list. An interesting fact is, India’s TATA owns the most powerful commercially available super computer (Eka- means “lonely”) in the world. Well, in June’s list, that was the fastest super computer in Asia; which is now taken by China’s Shanghai Super Computer Center (only non-usa super computer in the new top 10) and they went down to 13th in world ranking from 4th. However, their website still claims the old record. Read more »
