Entries from October 2005 ↓

Came across this beautiful quote in an email:

“Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” - George Bernard Shaw

And quite relevant to that quote, Robin Sharma writes about “The 4 Fs of Change Resistance”. He says:

Most training doesn’t last. No stickiness. We attend a seminar and vow to transform our lives. We say we’ll be better parents, leaders and human beings. 2 days later, it’s back to business as usual - seeing the negative, playing the victim and being cranky. The learning didn’t work. Because we didn’t change.

And then talks about the four most important factors why we resist change! Good read.

Mumbai’s suburban rail systems carry a total of 2.2 billion passengers every year. Incidentally, the world’s population is 6 billion.

Taken from Mumbai Trivia on Mid-Day

Looking more for design, and not restricting myself to software design, I found Industrial Design Excellence Award. The IDEA galleries showcase the winning entries in various categories. My favorites are: Mac Mini, JBL’s iPod Dock, BenQ CrazyArm LCD monitor and Davidoff’s Echo. Take a quick look to find out what’s happening!

http://new.idsa.org/idea/idea2005/index.htm

Of course, my blog suffers from many of these mistakes and I see good reason behind Jakob’s points. Having an about page, a photo, or writing about a specific topic will certainly be welcomed by the readers. Some of the mistakes are classic web design mistakes - non descrtiptive titles or non action links.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/weblogs.html

And yes, I will work on correcting these mistakes soon

Ashok wrote about this yesterday: http://www.dontclick.it/

The full site is based on a research idea to see how the software interfaces can be designed that we don’t need a mouse click! If you haven’t seen the site yet, I strongly recommend you do that. It will challenge the way you use the computer and give you a fresh perspective on design.