UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
About
Hello, This is Mandar Apte,
I am a designer based in India and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Applied Art Degree from the Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art, followed by a postgraduate qualification from the CDAC ACTS.
Currently, I am managing an App Store business in the heart of Mumbai.
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Reading List
Hindu Culture And Sanatan Dharma
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Understanding Dalit or any Backward Class Leadership mindset by analysing what they show what they do and what they have achieved till this date.
This analysis will help us understanding theory of Shahu, Phule, Ambedkar through magnified lenses of jargons like ‘Bamani Kawa’ and ‘Anaji Pant’ and current status of Dalit Leadership family decedents. Background When I was in school, or college or even I started working in office or traveling by train I saw people around me who…
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A Reality and Illusions of Marathi Movie Stars and Film Industry. Written on onset of Phullwanti Movie.
Background Yesterday I saw a Marathi movie called Phullwanti. But I was amazed that when I booked a ticket 18 hours before there were no bookings for the hall, I was the first to make a booking of two. Now today, when I entered a cinema hall, there were only a maximum 10 to 15…
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Why I began recording my personal encounters with Brahman Hatred/Abuse, Gazwa-E-Hind, and Love Jihad activities based on my observations and memories.
Background Experience that I wrote in my earlier blof post about GEP HR Head, Muthu, Kadam, Roy, and Vishwakarma as that was something that I avoided for almost a decade. But then I realized when one day I went for an interview with a company called Hexaware in MBP, Mahape, Navi Mumbai. There was a…
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My first interaction with a ‘Muslim Mind’ was when I was in primary school.
Background What I exactly remember is that I was in 3rd or 4th standard. My school was Lokmanya Madhyamik Vidyalaya. Principle was IDK, madam. I think her full name was Indira Kulkarni. Most dislike women who will make any student stand in front of her cabin on her will, even if he or she was…
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Social Media Effect: The New Leader Jarange Patil and Theory of Shahu, Phule, and Ambedkar.
Background: Sometimes I really thank social media and the internet. The reason behind this is that you get everything documented on legal media like audio and video, which are more trustworthy as newspapers can be manipulated. If you know Sharad Pawar and other politicians have their own business of news channels and paper publications. I…
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Update on the Last Blog Post: Genoside and Hatred of Brahman. The past, present, and future.
On October 3, 2023, I posted a thorough blog article detailing my own experience with severe brahman heatred and how the non-brahman community has normalized it. Remember my experience was dated in year 2013/14 when I was working in company called GEP. Today we are in year 2024 and it is still same mentality of killing…
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What Special Legal Rights That Muslim Exercise in India That allows them to call any fellow Kafir A ‘Shaitan’. My first-hand experience with Mongini’s Muslim Employee.
Background There has been a Monginis cake shop in my area for 15+ years. I used to eat chocolate cakes in the same shop. However, after a few interactions, I started experiencing irregularities, hindrances or arrogance by the shopkeeper when you asked for the order. Sometimes, an older person who is supposed to be a…
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The Mentality of the Backward Class in Bharat Today. The reality of Asking for Free Reservations and Free Employment.
Background I have been Brahman since birth. For the last 40 years, I have heard that a girl/boy from Brahman cast the lost Medical College Admission seat even though she got 99.95% in 12th. Then she told me that in the reserve/backward cast merit list, admission got closed at 50%. The same is true in…
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GEP Company Review – My experience with Brahmin Hatred, Insult, Frustration, and Abuse because of untrustworthy Managers and irresponsible Human Resource Managers
Background: I joined GEP (Global eProcure) company as a UI Designer in 2015. The company was overstaffed or overcrowded as they planned to buy two more floors in the same building. But it used to be seen as a time profitability of the company. In a few weeks, I realised the company app we designed…
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A Modern Hindu Brahman Scholler in America & His Salary in USD Affecting His Religious Beliefs
A Way of American Life: My First Experience of Indian Citizen Going Abroad Almost 22 years ago I was a student at the Sir J. J. School of Applied Art. I was learning BFA Applied Art (Advertising & Marketing) On the same campus, there was the Sir J. J. School of Art & Sir J.…
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I am married now, And here is how I choose the perfect spouse for my life.
It was the year 2012 when discussions about my marriage started happening in my home. Proposals of engagement between the prospective bride and me arrive every month or in other’s marriage ceremonies. So I started thinking and planning about it. My society, school or college friends were getting married at that time. But something strange…
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International Women’s Day and the Significance of Indian / Hindu Sanatan Sanskriti or Culture
Christianity or Muslims don’t have goddesses. God Mohammed had multiple wives even from teenagers. Jesus Christ was crucified and then declared god after that torture. After Christ’s death, his daughter supposes to be a priest but then leaders don’t allow that. But in Hindu Culture we have Goddess Sita, Parwati, Laxmi, Sarvasti and more who…
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क्लेशकारक अनुभव गांधिवधानंतरचा | Life of Chitpavan Kokanastha Brahmins After Killing of Mahatma Gandhi By Subhash Apte
Complete Monologue by Subhash Apte in Marathi: १९४८ साली गांधींचा वध झाला तेंव्हा मी आठ वर्षांचा होतो. दुसऱ्या दिवशी मी सकाळी उठलो तर सगळे वरचे लोक ओरडत होते. पेपर मध्ये आले आहे महात्मा गांधींचा खून झाला आणि मारेकरी पळून गेले अशी बातमी पेपर मध्ये आली होती आणि त्यात एक उल्लेख होता की मारेकऱ्यामध्ये गोडसे व…
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Sharing Video Interview by Aarti Tikoo and Her Story of Hindus Of Kashmir Valley
After publishing two blog posts about Marathi Brahmans Killing after Gandhi’s Murder. I received many comments on Facebook Groups / Chitpavan Katta page for those people who suffered from these killings of their family members/father/mother/sister/brother or their uncle. So I am sharing this video I saw on YouTube about Kashmiri Pandits ethnic cleansing by Pakistan…
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The year 1948, Gandhi’s assassination and its consequence on the Marathi Brahmin family household. A personal experience essay by Prabhakar Apte, Pune.
Complete Monologue by Prabhakar Apte in Marathi: The Limb is one village situated on the bank of the Krishna river. Historically one Barve family, who belonged to the in-law family of first Peshva Balaji Vishvanath. Barve family migrated from Konkan to Limb and built the first ghat on the Krishna river. Thereafter Lakshman Ballal Apte,…
User Experience Design
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Monetisation Strategy A Business Lesson from Cinema Theatres and Online Ticket Booking Portals.
Back Story: The year was 2001/2/3, and there was a new movie experience on the block. And there was new mall culture introduced in Mumbai for my age individuals. Early Success: Somehow I got to know about R-Adlabs Playes movies for INR 50.0 only. Now every day I find myself watching at least one movie,…
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Uber Driver Tip, A illegal/unlawful/unthoughtful user interaction
One fine day I was returning from one destination to home through a cab booked over Uber Cabs. While travelling, I snacked and drank water, and my hand was wet. Once I arrived, I made a trip payment through an online card or Amazon Pay. About to get out of the car, I was scrolling…
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Betting your company on Metaverse AR/VR Craze
First Story that I want to share today is from my experience In 2009 I worked as an Animator and E-Learning Courseware Creator and Designer. And I was planning to switch the design domain to HCI/UX, i.e. Human-Computer Interaction/User Experience Design. And software like Apple Shake and Adobe After Effects was standard competitive tool used…
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Human Factors International (HFI) UX/UxD/HCI Certification Reality
By graduate degree, I am a BFA Applied Art graduate. I know the UX field has existed in India and World longer than I know, but I learned of it at my first job around 2007. I am a multidisciplinary designer. I opted to do User Experience Design/User Interaction Design/Human-Computer Interaction Design certification around 2016.…
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Web/Mobile App Monetisation & Revenue Generation Strategies
All business survives on net profit. In accounting terms, here is how you calculate Net Profit. i.e. (Total Business Revenue) – (Total Business Expenditure) = Net Profit In the business world, there are two types of industries Service and Product. So if you are in the service industry, you survive on a paycheck by paycheck…
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My Experience Using Apple Watch for 5 Years and Apple’s Gamification Strategies
In 2019, I bought myself an Apple iPhone 11 Pro 256GB and Apple Watch 5. I have used an Apple iPhone 5s with 16GB since 2016. But I was dissatisfied with the storage that it allowed me to use. Out of 16GB, 10GB was the operating system, 2GB was for Apps that were able to…
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In-depth Review of Matrimony Website by Anuroop Wiwaha (anuroopwiwaha.com)
I have used the Anuroop Wiwaha Matrimony Website for the last four to five years. In addition, I have extensively used their mobile Apple iPhone app and website for my bride search. As a result, I discovered a few points that Anuroop Wiwaha Portal / Company improved upon to help the community get the right…
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What is a suitable tool for UI/UX Work: Adobe Photoshop / XD / Sketch / Figma
As far as I can remember, I have used Photoshop from version two. So I have used Photoshop for almost twenty years, less or more. I have been using the Sketch app for four years. And just now, because of team recommendations, I have to switch to Figma. The most problematic point about Photoshop or…
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Uber Cabs Invoice Outstanding Payment Alert, A Technical Glitch or Accounting Error
I just travelled from Mumbai to Thane using Uber cabs. They rounded my bill before tax by 46 Paise. My trip was a cash trip. My final cost of the trip after taxes applied was 160.05 INR. But when I completed my trip I got notification from the Uber app that I have not paid…
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Programmatically add Fab (Floating Action Button) Button to iPhone, iPad and Mac App.
When Google released the Material Design Guidelines, they introduced many new design elements, including the Fabeingutton, a Floating Action Button. Normally, we see the Fab button in Android Mobile Apps, but many Apple iPhone, iPad, and Mac App Developers have started using it in their designs. Here, we will see how to programmatically add the…
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Every designer has questions about paying Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) Tax or paying for individual third-party design apps.
Today, I used Adobe XD for the whole day. I felt it was competitive to use the Sketch app on Mac. I have avoided using Adobe XD all these years because Adobe Subscription Tax usually costs me INR 5,000/—here in India. But I loved Sketch App’s payment model, which is almost INR 5,000/year. Then, you…
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Best Design Advice that I have ever received.
The best advice I ever received about designing logos and symbols is to use humanistic elements/curves/lines and avoid mechanical drawings. The computer can handle mechanical drawings. This advice was given to me by Shirbhavikar sir and Pawar sir when I was doing my BFA in Applied Arts at Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art.…
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In-depth Review of Matrimony Website by Suyog Ranade Vivaha, aka Shree Suyog Vivaha Mandal
Background: I have written a complete, in-depth review and analysis of the Suyog Ranade Vivaha or Shree Suyog Vivaha Mandal Matrimony website that I used for 6 to 7 months, mainly on WhatsApp groups, because of bad user experience on website format. I reported the following issues to them, but they were not ready or…
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Irregularities of AdSense Advertisements Delivery, Why smaller 300×250 unit ads are delivered in 336×280 ad unit. Here is why?
For a while, I observed unusual behaviour of my 336 by 280 Ad units, where smaller ads were delivered in 300 by 250 units. I even reported this issue to the Google AdSense Support Team but received no reply & currently, they are not accepting any new support requests, but how can I get the…
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Search Engine Optimisation for Title Tag & How it works & How it is crawled by Google, A lesson learned from my own portfolio website
Here is what I learned from Google’s Web Crawling algorithm over the years, For the last three to two years, I have used ‘Design Portfolio | Mandar Apte’ as my title tag for my personal design portfolio website’s homepage, i.e. ‘Page Name | Website Name’. This is nothing more than to explain to people that…
Tutorials
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Stop OpenAI’s ChatGPT User agent from scanning and using your website’s content.
Background: Wikipedia Describes ChatGPT as an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in November 2022. It is built on top of OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 families of large language models (LLMs) and has been fine-tuned (an approach to transfer learning) using both supervised and…
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Recover accidentally deleted Apple Address Book Contacts, Calendars and Safari Bookmarks from Apple iCloud
Apple’s iCloud is for iPhone, iPad and Mac cloud data syncing platforms activated by default for every Apple ID on any Apple device. Apple introduced Apple iCloud after the failure of MobileMe cloud offerings for Apple iPhone, iPad and Mac. In day-to-day life, it may happen that you may accidentally delete or lose your Apple…
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Removing the Title Bar from the Mac Catalyst App
Learn how to remove the title bar from your Mac Catalyst app. We are using Swift Programming Language. The code will look something like this:
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With the release of macOS Big Sur & macOS Monterey, the user cannot format External Hard Disk to ‘Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)’ format as there is no option to do the same.
With the release of the macOS Big Sur Mac Operating System, Apple has removed the option under Disk Utility to allow users to format External Hard Drive to Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) format. There is only one option for Mac OS Extended (Journaled) but no choice with encryption. It only allows users to format…
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Apply UIVisualEffectView & UIBlurEffect to any Views in iOS / iPadOS or macOS app.
Apple describes UIVisualEffectView & UIBlurView in its support document as follows:Depending on the desired effect, the effect may affect content layered behind the view or content added to the visual effect view’s contentView. Apply a visual effect view to an existing view and then apply a UIBlurEffect or UIVibrancyEffect object to apply a blur or…
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Add a mouse hover effect / UIPointer Interaction to any iOS or iPadOS app views.
As Apple describes Pointer Interactions in its support document: Pointer Interactions: Support pointer interactions in your custom controls and views. iPadOS 13.4 introduces dynamic pointer effects and behaviours that enhance the experience of using an iPad with an external input device, like a trackpad or mouse. As people use an input device, iPadOS automatically adapts…
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Get the iOS, iPadOS, and macOS operating system names, versions, and model identifiers programmatically.
Programmatically get iOS, iPadOS, macOS Catalyst Operating System Name and Version and a model identifier of iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices. Here is a simple way to programmatically get the operating system name and version of your iOS, iPadOS and macOS. The code below will also return the value of the iPhone, iPad, and Mac…
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Get iOS, iPadOS and macOS app Versions and Build numbers programmatically.
Here is a small function I have written that you can use in your iOS, iPadOS or macOS Catalyst app to get your app’s current version, build number, and print it on the screen whether it will be on the app’s about or support view. Copy the below function in the Xcode project’s UIViewController Swift…
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Reset the Bluetooth module using the Terminal app on your Mac.
Here is the simplest way to reset the Bluetooth module on your Mac if you face any issues using your Bluetooth mouse (Magic Mouse) or Bluetooth keyboard (Magic Keyboard). This command will reset Bluetooth on your Mac and then connect to all Bluetooth devices again after the reset. Step 01:Open the Terminal app from your…
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How to save your contact’s WhatsApp Profile Photo
A few years ago WhatsApp was allowing WhatsApp Mobile / iPhone / Android and Mac app used to save any contact’s profile photo by clicking on the action sheet button and then tapping save. But then WhatsApp removed that button. But somehow one trick works. Assumption: We assume that you have connected WhatsApp iPhone &…
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Implementing Meta Theme Color modern HTML5 and CSS3 websites.
Apple Safari has started supporting theme-color Meta Tag from the Safari 15 release. Here is how to Implement a theme-color meta tag in HTML. You have to copy-paste the theme-color meta tag into a section of your website. It will look something like this: You can use the following code to implement theme color specific…
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Find the Bundle ID of any app on Mac.
There are many ways to identify the bundle ID of any macOS app using the Mac itself. The following steps will help you identify a Finder app’s bundle ID using the Terminal. Replace the app name written in step 02 with the exact words of your desired app name. Step 01:Open Terminal on your Mac.…
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How to fix and repair anything related to iCloud, App Store, and Mac App Store if not at all working correctly on Apple iPhone, iPad and Mac with just one simple solution!
After using your Apple Mac, iPhone or iPad for more than 2 to 3 years upgrading the operating system multiple times you may realise after upgrading system some features like iCloud, Mac / App Store App Downloads and Updates, Keychain Sync, Safari Passwords Sync, Contacts Sync are not working across devices. Precautions: 1. If you…
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Essential factors to be considered while choosing UILabel and UITextView to display text for iOS, iPadOS and macOS apps.
Choosing between UILabel and UITextView starts when you want to display text in your Apple iOS, iPadOS or macOS Catalyst App. I have even gone through the process of choosing UILabel or UITextView to display text on my app. So, I have made a small numbered list to help you choose the right option… Choose…
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Show/hide the navigation bar on a particular view without disturbing the navigation bar hierarchy in iOS/iPadOS app.
Sometimes, you want to hide the Navigation Bar from a particular view without manually deleting it from Main.storyboard, So, I have documented how to do it programmatically instead. Step 01:Copy the following code to your ViewController’s Swift file’s ‘viewWillAppear’ method for which view you want to hide the Navigation Bar on its load on your…