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 …

Why typing Devanagari Alphabets (Marathi, Sanskrit, Hindi) on a personal computer is so difficult? And why typing Devanagari in Latin is so easy and preferred by many?

Introduction & Background I have been planning to write this blog post for many years. I have been facing this issue since I had my first Microsoft Windows Operating System-based computer in 2002. After that, it was partially solved on a Mac in 2008. I faced the issue of Marathi on the web when I …

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. …

Why we don’t do Pilot Projects or so called Free Mockup Designs? & Why Pilot Projects & Free Mockup design doesn’t work?

Few collection of thoughts from my experience of design freelancing & pursuing design processes & doing design oriented business for living for last more than 4 years. When somebody asks for Mockup before starting any paid & finalised project, Following situations can be seen & felt by designer Now you can understand why we don’t …

Typography & Steve Jobs

You can get Inspiration from anything, even leaf coming out of broken wood. Here is a speech by Steve Jobs at Stanford’s 2005 Commencement. Every time I listen same speech again & again I realize it’s nothing but Verbal Typography by Steve Jobs Himself, You get to see & hear verbal full stop, comma, exclamatory …

Design Inspirations: Getting Inspired…!!! to do design & finally learning from it…!!!

Today with broadband connection on my iMac & connected to the World Wide Web fearlessly with my own website & design blog… Switching from one website to another, reading blogs, going through Twitts, reading Facebook updates… Sometimes I feel It’s really easy to get inspirations through web if you do it right… Not like olden …

Design Tools Comparison

Today I decided to compare different design tools or computer applications available in market to just to differentiate them with each other Before even talking about Computer Design Applications you can guess what big companies are involved in to developing them, examples are Adobe, Autodesk, Apple, Microsoft Sometimes as Graphic Designer, Web Designer, Animator is …

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 …

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 …