gPhone or Android: The Philosophy Says It All!

Recent buzz about the gPhone being designed by the ADG (Ammunition Design Group) of San Fransisco may or may not have been confirmed by the honchos of the company, but what is almost certain is Google’s unmistakable ambition to enter the mobile web space in a big way…

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Office Nomads and Exo-Workers

10 years ago the physical space had lost its relevance to the digital network. Today work-’places’ are again moving out into the physical and virtual ’smart spaces’. Today’s global workforces have a very different conception about workspaces, ‘own or shared’ resources; ‘physical or remote’ presence; ‘just-in-time’ or ‘anywhere-anytime’ accesses or own office vs. client [...]

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McDoland’s Vs. Facebook, Am I Lovin’ It?

If you are wondering what is the McDonald’s connection with web applications, let me clarify that this is not about the offerings. I intend to discuss the kinds of experiences a brand, either emerging or long established, promise to offer to the customer or the [...]

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SOA What about the Users!!: Issues in Enterprize Data Management

As architects of the enterprise data management suites spend a lot of energy talking about concepts and frameworks such as SOA, EDA, MDA, and SCA. In times of increasing complexity and with a desire to get projects completed on time and within budget, sometimes the most important part of any architecture is forgotten – the [...]

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Prototyping User Experiences!

I was attending a CHI-ICSID joint workshop on ‘Human factors through Human Experiences’ in CHI 2004, Vienna. The workshop was moderated by Joy Mountford of Macintosh fame and Leo Frisberg. We had a thoroughly enriching experience attending that workshop as we pondered upon many interesting confluences of user centered design methods and requirements gathering of [...]

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New business models need new kinds of customer experience

“As happened with the web, the business models come later.”
the classic example of Clayton Christensen’s innovator’s dilemma. When HTML came out everybody said “Hey this is so crude, you can’t build rich interfaces like you can on a PC – it’ll never work”. Well it did something that people wanted, it kind of grew more [...]

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