Last week while on vacation with my family, I was trying to explain to my uncle what I actually do at work. The answer was simple, atleast that is what I thought at first. “I design web applications!” “Sounds interesting. I want to design a website for my company. Can you help me?” he asked. […]
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Implementing a web application to solve a business need is one of the biggest commitment a business can ever make. And if the business web application is going to be used throughout the organization then the commitment is even bigger. Ideally any business would want such web applications to support their business needs for years
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In the last few articles on the Kandan Redesign Project, I talked about the designing the Hall page and designing the create, edit, and delete features of Kandan. Today I will go over the design of the Notifications feature. I had scoped in the following things for notifications when I defined the scope of this project.
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Recently I had a horrible experience while using the delete action in my hosting account that hosts all of my websites. I was actually trying to delete a FTP account that I didn’t need anymore and in the process of deleting that account, my public_html folder got deleted. This is the folder where all the
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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