Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Category: Art And Design

Art is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, usually involving imaginative or technical skill. Design is the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system (as in architectural blueprints, engineering drawings, business processes, circuit diagrams and sewing patterns). Design has different connotations in different fields. In some cases the direct construction of an object (as in pottery, engineering, management, cowboy coding and graphic design) is also considered to be design.

  • 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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  • 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

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  • 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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  • Types of Private Animation Institutes or Schools in India

    Because of vary few government schools teaching animation in India, Private sector has took over the lead of teaching animation by large margin in India. Situation of Private Animation Teaching Institutes is vary bad… Here are few points I observed while learning animation from few of this institutes by myself…

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  • My Notes about User Experience Design that I learn on My Website’s Design Portfolio Page

    On Day one of my website I had static 3 page website that I made in iWeb almost one year back in year 2010…

    WordPress was my Ver. 02’s website’s CMS & Yes! It’s deployment & decision was successful.

    Art Portfolio was the name of front page almost 10 months back… It had 3 blocks of images that were to facilitate as icons so that people can click over it to perform lightbox style animation that will open bigger image over page & every other content will black out…

    Practically speaking it was just small content only three artworks… & people don’t know what to do with it… there was no message written over it to tell user to click over it to view bigger image… So it was unsuccessful approach of mine to showcase my artwork on my portfolio page.

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  • Apple Developer Website – A Gold Mine of Knowledge

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    Apple Developer Website & Apple Developer on iTunes is really a Gold Mine of Knowledge for Apple Mac OSX Developer, iOS Developer & Web Developer with WebKit.

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  • A False Race That Man Never Ran

    There was one company…

    There was one designer…

    That one designer joined that same company & story started…

    One fine day designer was setting in company canteen having tea, he saw guy seating in front of him…

    Designer thought let’s talk & interact with fellow worker so he asked his name. The guy replied, “I am TG 4”

    & designer starts laughing… & asked himself what is that ‘TG’ Thing?

    The company was having ‘Technical Grade’ allotted to their employees

    Designer realize while spending few months in company that people that works here have no identity no name no value… Only people know each other by Technical Grade, they even ignore salary as they get greater salary with greater Technical Grade…

    So people with higher Technical Grade were running the race of Grade that has no value out side their company… It was false motivation of false realization…

    What if you want a Auto Rickshaw to catch to run to the place what you will tell the Rickshaw driver, “I am TG4, Let’s Go”, It doesn’t mean any thing to that rickshaw driver…

    What you will tell your kids in the morning when you are leaving for office & work,”bye, bye Kids your TG 4 is going” It will sound hilarious & you know what it is just stupidity…

    You can’t in cash & it doesn’t fetch value outside that company…

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  • My year or years long Affair with my Websites

    I was talking with my friend while we both were having coffee… we chatted a long & reference a came along about my website & I suddenly realized that I do had my own website in way back Year 2003 – 04 on Yahoo! Geocities…

    What a realization, at that time I had no web analytics so I have to had phoned a person to ask to check does he visited my website & they like it or not…

    No CMS so no WordPress…

    No Plugins…

    No Web Analytics…

    No Visitor Data…

    No Feedback form or any forms that matter…

    That time I had no knowledge of CSS So All website was done with tables… i.e. TD & TR

    Now I had crush on my own domain with my name attached with .com thing…

    My Friends get excited with thing my .com domain name & my presence on web…

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  • Types of Animation Students in India

    I found myself surrounded by few of this aspiring animation brats while I am learning animation…!!!

    Type 01
    “Clay Animation? How Cute!!!” An Aspiring Animation Brat
    One day I was seating in a animation class & I came across this exclamation thought…
    “tell me about Animation!”, “Who Does Animation”, “How He does it?”, “Where it Happens?”, It reminds me of Hindi Film ‘Dil To Pagal Hai…’
    And It was the same day I came across this thought, “Animation? How Sweet? How Cute?”, I never did & never will understand what is cute in doing in animation, It is a day’s of work…!!!

    Type 02
    “Tell me About 3D…!!!”
    I was explaining the one person the process of animation & how it is done & recommending some books to him, he said, “I am more interested in 3D Animation, I don’t want to learn from books or basics of animation, I just want to learn 3D… because 3D is the future because Pixar & even Disney is doing it… & Why I should waste my time in learning 2D or that matter other types of animation.”

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