Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Articles

  • What is right PC or Mac for Design i.e. Choosing Your Dream Machine to do Designing & less Computing

    Let me help you to buy your personal computer to do design…!!!

    As Apple’s Boilerplate suggest, ‘Apple ignited the personal computer revolution with the Apple II, then reinvented the personal computer with the Macintosh. Apple continues to lead the industry with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system, and iLife, iWork and professional applications. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store, has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.’

    It all started with Macintosh & Mac Paint…

    But in decade of 90’s Microsoft’s Windows system dominated the User Interface Driven & icon & folder driven computing.

    But When you want to buy a personal computer to do design tasks in your work routine you will want to buy a better computer with great processing power, a large display to occupy big images than to just minimizing & maximizing images, with good internet & networking support, big amount of RAM, Larger capacity hard drive.

    If you go by cost factor attached to buying a personal computer then assembled computer will win the race as computer hardware will cost around $500 & installing a linux operating system will add no cost to the bill. but you have to keep in mind the Adobe doesn’t support Linux operating system so most Adobe Apps like Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash will not work & support Linux.

    Then you will say what about Dell, HP & Sony computers…??? Well don’t they just are another type of Branded Assembled Computer who are using Windows 7 Operating system???

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  • Happy Independence Day…!!! Jai Hind…!!!

    Happy Independence Day to All Indians.

     
    This day we the nation ‘Hindusathan’ got freedom & independence.

     
    Just want to share this link with you people, Our Freedom Fighter Swatantryaveer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (28 May 1883 to 26 Feb 1966) has web presence & has his written book available to read & download for free. The books are available in Marathi & English languages. (more…)

  • OpenSource Application Revolution in Design

    I am totally liking the opportunities of OpenSource Application designed for Personal Computers to create Art & Design

     
    As there are two main platforms in PC Market. And Those are Macintosh & Windows.

     
    But Art & Design related computer applications have big business bulls like Adobe, Apple, Autodesk (more…)

  • Creating & Choosing Your First Design Portfolio Format & updating it over the years

    Being in field of ‘Design’ where person identified by his work… So documenting your own work in some kind of portfolio or just collection of well designed Artworks will work for Artist & his career.

    In today’s world of digital art having portfolio in tradition form like printed artworks on fine paper sticked inside leather jacket & having own domain name & website dedicated to showcase portfolio online will build credibility to artist’s professional career

    First I will describe what details that portfolio should describe on his portfolio

    1. First Page with Introduction to Artist & his Background
    2. Title of Artwork
    3. Brief Given
    4. Method of Approaching to Work & some details
    5. Nice High Quality Screen Shots of work
    6. Nice Layout & Arrangement of Artworks
    7. Year of Design
    8. Copyright Notice
    9. Artist’s Contact Details
    10. Credits
    11. A Thank You Note

    Here we look in to two ways of building portfolio, Digitally & in Traditional printed form.

    Digital Portfolio
    A Digital Portfolio may contains of two platforms PDF (Portable Document Format) PDF is Open Standard of Document Exchange, (I will not recommend PPT – Power Point Presentation as it needs Microsoft Powerpoint installer on display machine) & HTML (Website)

    Portfolio in PDF File
    You can design portfolio in Raster Format through Photoshop & then export it to PDF or Design Portfolio in CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign & then export it in to multipage PDF. Having consistent user experience will definitely work to identify you with your artwork.

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  • Meet the Filmmaker: John Lasseter Interview

    I came around this Podcast by Apple Inc. about Meet The Filmmaker – John Lasseter.

    This Podcast is film & host by Apple Inside their own Apple Store… They even have many more listed inside iTunes Store to view & download.

    I totally liked this podcast as John Lasseter talks about his passion behind making Pixar film & how Pixar Functions & operates… He even talk about early day of Pixar as an Science Lab… He talk about how computer animation is originated through Science…

    So really It’s Interesting to watch by all Computer Animators & even by Traditional Animators as originally John Lasseter is from Traditional Disney Animation Background & alumni of Disney’s own Animation School

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  • Want to attend a design interview? What will you carry in to showcase your design portfolio, and what will cost less to your pocket? MacBook? MacBook Air? or Just An iPad

    For almost the last year or two, I have been surrounded by this question….

    You want to attend an interview with a big company for a post related to the design industry…

    Then what will you carry with your MacBook? or MacBook Air? or iPad…

    Carrying your whole work portfolio on a CD or Flash Drive is risky as a recruiter may copy your work to their computer without asking you to do so. So there is the possibility of theft of your intellectual property… So, the right way to carry out your work would be on your Mac.

    What would be your next portable machine if you owned a desktop, like an iMac or Mac Pro? A MacBook or MacBook Air or iPad.

    It will be the right way to compare these Apple Products would be through their Price, Display Resolution Size, User Interaction and experience.

    Practically thinking all are Portables or Tablet & they all have Multi-Touch Gesture Support.

    All are costly: MacBook is $1,000, MacBook Air is $1,500, and iPad is $829.

    MacBook & MacBook have Mechanical keyboards, but the iPad has a Modern Multi-Touch UI that is groundbreaking in the Industry that even competitors are not catching up with,

    iPad 2 is with the duel processing in Tablet Form,

    MacBook Air & iPad have no optical media support, but all have WiFi inbuilt… But Adobe Flash Player is not supported on iPad.

    iPad Display Resolution is 1024px by 768px, MacBook’s Display Resolution is 1280px by 800px, MacBook Air’s Display Resolution is 1440px by 900px.

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  • Experiments with Task Management Programs

    For last few days I was experimenting with Task Management Progarams Called Producteev & Things for Mac.

    I was amazed with design & simplicity of Things for Mac The Desktop Client for Mac Platform, It was easy to use & Look & feel was truly Mac only…

    But ‘Things’ lacked the Sync feature between two Mac if you have any…

    So I tried out ‘Producteev’ for Mac, It has web interface & Mac & Windows Desktop Client.

    Producteev for Mac Desktop Client comparing to Mac was badly designed, It was unlike Mac User Interface & Specially Icons… Producteev Mac client once hanged & quit unexpectedly… So it disappointed me too much…!!!

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  • Artist’s Updates’ – Apple iMac + Wacom Tablet + Mac AppStore + Free Apps like Autodesk Sketchbook Express or Copic Edition = Solution Just Work’s

    I have just discovered the free Digital Drawing & Painting Apps directly from AppStore…

    Autodesk SketchBook Express or Copic Edition is the Finding…!!!

    Just Started Using it, Got really good results while using it doing freehand drawings with wacom tablet on iMac.

    This AppStore thing is really great for discovering Apps like this under one category.

    I will post results soon….!!! & Looking forward to it…!!!

    Thanks & Regards
    Mandar Apte

  • Unsubscribe, Delete, Forget, Relax

    Few day’s ago I deleted all Automated Facebook Messages & Mails sent to my E Mail ID & I also deleted mails related to old Orkut Stuffs….

    It was mess of 1,500 to 2,000 Meassages…. Which was useless from any point of time & relevance…

    First step to relaxation is to unsubscribe from Autogenerated Mailing list from your Facebook Account Settings Then physically deleting old mail junk from your cluttered inbox… & Then looking at the bottom of GMail Stats of growing Unused Gmail Capacity… & Just feeling the peace of mind…

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  • Website in Flash? Do You know Steve Jobs?

    Today I visited Indian Fashion Designer’s Website done in Flash..

    It reminded me the year of…

    1. Website loaders who will show progress & people don’t understand what it’s doing actually…
    2. Pages will fly in to showcase content…
    3. Every click will take more time to load new content…
    4. More Time. So Waiting…
    5. More Waiting…
    6. Some More Waiting…
    7. More Waiting…
    8. Waiting…
    9. User Clicks…
    10. Now Browser Hangs…
    11. Browser Still hangs…
    12. Browser Hangs Again..
    13. Hangs…
    14. Hangs…
    15. User try to ‘Force Quit’ the browser
    16. Browser gets screwed up…
    17. OS System shut downs
    18. Computer Restarts…
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