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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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 …
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 …
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 …
While I was designing Icons for my client, I realised that it is true in website design as it is in Icon Design: you can work in odd numbers, When you have even numbers like 14px Square or 16px Square, you can easily fit a round box inside it, but in a 15px Square Icon, …
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 …
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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 …
A real insight into how finger Touch Gesture technology introduced by Apple while introducing The iPhone in Year 2007. A real study of current market of touch technology & how iPhone technology is much superior than rest of the technology. If you want to study HCI then this video you should watch the first before …
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 …
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 …
