DHARMESH BA

I deactivated my Facebook account recently.I had been a very active user on Facebook since I created my profile way back in 2009.I always felt Facebook gave a new identity to me, but what made me to end the relationship with the most lovable social work ever? I’ll explain

Facebook on the whole is perceived as a  social network which helps you to connect with people around the globe and gets you updates from you friends.But have you ever realized that Facebook is the one making you stay away from people.Facebook is making you do things that you never wanted.

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The modern Ereader are changing the way we read books.The below image was published in the April 1935 issue of Science & Mechanics magazine,an ereader which was designed few decades ago was supposed bring in a change in the world of publishing

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Recently there came a call from a company through a friend who referred me.They had called me to see if I would fit the post of an Android Developer.I wasn’t aware much about Android application development that time.All I knew was interface designing and front end programming.Though the person was aware of the fact,he asked me to develop an Android app over a weekend with a problem statement.That approach of interviewing was quite exciting to me and immediately said “yes”.

 That weekend I went through a brilliant learning process,more than getting the job it was a kind of challenge to prove myself to solve a problem in a limited time.In this post I shall explain the flow that i sketched out to solve the problem.

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CSS 3 offers the flexibility to create shapes.Today i just tried creating the famous android bot in just css 3.Try out this interesting stuff and it looks amazing.No Photoshop nor illustrator needed! .I shall try coming up with some more logos in CSS 3

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CSS 3 Box shadow allows you to implement shadows without using images.These techniques helps to enhance the design with minimal effort.Box shadow property gives a handful of options to flexibly scale the shadows for elements.

basic syntax for css 3 shadow property

box-shadow: x-position   y-position   blur    spread   color

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The user is shown  the following screen by default on loading the resource URL.The directional arrows would notify the user,the number of the steps involved and the current step that is being processed.

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Indian Railways is the worlds second largest network with highest number of employees.IRCTC.CO.IN contributes to about 14% of the Indian Railways revenue (As per March 2011).IRCTC is one of the major players of E-commerce in the world.The sad part is about 25% of the transaction fail in the site (i.e) 25 people out of 100 who are trying to book tickets are unsuccessful either due to heavy traffic or failure of the payment gateway etc.To make a comparison Flipkart.com has just 2.5% transaction failure rate.Most of the times when a website doesn’t work properly the coding and backend technology is blamed but the design of the site is to be blamed there.I certainly feel that IRCTC ticket booking experience could be improved much.Here I have discussed one such redesign for the site.

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 I spend to an average of 5-6 hours per day on internet.I visit a lot of sites and few ask me to register and few don’t.In the sites that ask me to register i ignore few of them,not because the site is bad it is because the registration form is bad.A registration form should not be a part of your core functionality unless and until it is necessary.Ask people to register only if your site demands it badly.For example Facebook.com is meaningless without registered users whereas Google search is not the same case.A few key things that designers should keep in mind before asking someone to register

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