User experience design (UXD or UED) is the process of enhancing user satisfaction by improving the usability, accessibility, and pleasure provided in the interaction between the user and the product. User experience design encompasses traditional human–computer interaction (HCI) design, and extends it by addressing all aspects of a product or service as perceived by users.
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 can renew your subscription or use it without updates as long as you want.
I loved Adobe XD’s compatibility and integration with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. It is really smooth and well done. Adobe XD’s prototype tool is smooth.
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.
It seems I don’t totally follow this advice in my drawings/designs and illustrations. Even after four years of graduation, when I met Mahendra Patel sir at his SID office, he told me the same.
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 in the right frame of mind to accept it.
So, I just unregistered myself from their portal and exited their WhatsApp groups.
Following are the points that I noticed about their matrimony service:
Point 01: No or Failed Business Model. The matrimony section mainly runs on WhatsApp Groups of 250 people. The group is unmanaged sometimes; people post their profiles multiple times. Some people even post political or comic forwards. Because all members are in an open WhatsApp group, there is no contact number security or number privacy. Sometimes, admins or business owners post repeated WhatsApp Messages asking every user to register and pay a fee to use WhatsApp groups or websites. Admins even warn users they will remove everyone who never pays the matrimony section fee, which showcases the main point that there is no thought behind Successful Business Model or Revenue Generation.
Point 02: No Privacy or Security: Because of the open group with visibility of contact numbers to everyone, users are prone to scammers and fake profiles or spam calls
Point 03: Suyog Ranade Vivaha lost complete user profile data and even registered account data three times while upgrading their website and transferring the website to their new domain. They had to ask every user individually to reregister for their website repeatedly—a failed system.
Point 04: Website owners had to change their Web Domain as a similar web domain was used by its competitor with a slight name difference. This shows no thought about branding or company structure. Because of this exact domain by competitors, Suyog Ranade Vivavha’s Matrimony users were registering wrongly on competitors’ websites, thinking competitors that they were the original company. This shows a loss of identity and company branding, and a loss of revenue.
Point 05: As you can see in the screenshots, the website structure is broken and faulty, with buggy coding and development.
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 solution I wanted?
I solved the problem of why smaller unit ads were delivered in bigger ad units, thereby ruining my ‘Website Design Layouts.’
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 they can get a complete insight into the website by just looking at the title on Google’s search result page.
But for the last few days, I got this result when I searched my name on Google. Yes, I was listed first when I searched for a name, i.e mandar apte,
But the result was something like this: ‘Mandar Apte: Design Portfolio’ instead of my curated title ‘Design Portfolio | Mandar Apte’. It seems Google altered my website homepage’s title tag on their search results. I was amassed, wondering why this should happen, and then I contacted Google support for the same.
India’s Education System (mainly Mumbai University from where I belong) is based on 10 + 2 + 4 years of graduation program.
For applying to graduation program in Art you need to have following qualification, You must have 10 + 2 passed certified program that means you must pass Secondary School Certification (SSC) & then 2 years of Higher Secondary Certification (HSC) then only you can apply to Art Institutes like Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art & Sir J. J. School of Art for graduation in Art.
In last few years common entrance test like MH-AAC-CAT (Maharashtra Applied Arts & Crafts Common Aptitude Test) are introduced in Maharashtra state. By passing this test it allows you to choose between art colleges for graduation in Maharashtra.
Graduation in Design You have to start to learn design only through Art Colleges as there are no design colleges available for graduation in design. But there are few courses available to graduate in Design from NID & IDC. NID has ‘Graduate Diploma Program in Design (GDPD)’
Following are the famous art collages mainly in Maharashtra, India.
A real informative interview of Steve Jobs talking about his work & his success.
I found his talk informative & a knowhow of his work ethics that how he look at his work & productivity & quality of his work that he produces.
He talks about bringing emotions to work he does like developing App like iMovie where by you can relate to your life more successfully by not just shooting family moments on handheld movie camera but by editing it with easy in just three minutes & showcasing on your personalized Mac to you family & friends, A real joy of having your personal computer as a Mac.
A video will teach a lot how computer can be relate to mind as an bicycle, As being human we are all tool builders…
A basic relation of computer to human is as a tool they can afford to utilize & own to do their daily tasks in fashionably manner that only human can afford to do… As we are tool builders.
A neat study by Steve Jobs himself on Human to Computer relationship…
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