When I started designing web applications, I had the habit of finding a solution to the problem, designing the user interface for it and moving ahead to the next problem. Design optimization was never on my mind. I never invested time in finding alternate ways of doing the same thing. As a result most of …
The First Step of Design Optimization – Its Not What You Think Read More »
Before I started designing web applications for a living I heard a lot of people say that the basic principle of web design is to keep the UI simple. By simple, I mean having lesser UI elements not the visual look and feel of the user interface. The logic I heard was that lesser the …
Keep the UI Simple – Ignore this Principle in Web Application Design Read More »
Yesterday I had a very lengthy and interesting discussion with one of my friends on what exactly should be the first step of web application UI design. Is it the analysis of the requirements, or is it the understanding what the user wants to do with the interface or is it what will the user …
The First Step of Web Application UI Design That No One Talks About Read More »
Yesterday, I was searching people on Twitter who tweet about web applications and noticed that Twitter provides a Saved Search feature. Basically this is how Twitter’s Saved Search feature works. Once you are logged in you can see a search box on top right hand side. You can enter anything in it and hit the …
How to Design the Saved Search Feature in a Web Application Read More »
I have read plenty of articles that explain what is good design and have always come out either confused or overwhelmed. Have you ever felt the same? Can you define what is good design in just one sentence? I know most of the designers out there will say “No”. But in my experience it is …
If you design web applications for businesses then I bet you would have someday come across a requirement to bulk upload the data into your web application from your clients existing legacy systems. Or you might have come across a requirement to always keep the data in sync across multiple applications. While designing web applications …
Designing the Bulk Data Upload Feature of a Web Application Read More »
I know I have taken a lot of time to publish this next update on the Kandan Redesign Project. And I am sorry for that. Life became just too busy for me to design the pending features of Kandan that I had scoped in while starting this project. I work full time as a Product …
Designing the Create, Edit and Delete Features of Kandan Application Read More »
Couple of days back I started the Kandan Redesign Project with the aim to design the Kandan web chat client right here in front of you step by step. That time we just discussed about the scope of the project. Today I will walk you through the steps I took to design the home page …
How I Designed the Home Page of Kandan Web Chat Client Read More »
Today I am officially kicking off the Kandan Redesign Project to redesign Kandan which is an open source web chat client aimed at helping companies to streamline the communications between its teams. I will be re-designing Kandan right here in front of you step by step over the next couple of weeks. This first article …
Kandan Redesign Project Kickoff – A Web Application Design Case Study Read More »
Few days back we discussed how to design Advanced Search interface. Today we will talk in detail about some of the important considerations to keep in mind while designing Faceted Search. So what is Faceted Search exactly? Once a user has given a search query and we have presented a large number of results, how …
How to Design Faceted Search – The Complete Guide Read More »
