Under the Lens #8: Can’t find that button

Have you tried changing settings on a modern flatscreen TV lately? Tried doing it only with the button(s) present on the TV itself and not the remote? If yes, you will easily relate to this article; if not, let me tell you this: it is really easy to do so, if only you could find […]

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Under the lens #7: Microinteractions

Microinteraction, the new superstar in the digital design world leaving designers everywhere scurrying to design and implement creative microinteractions. Some do this through neat animations, some through visual and few through audio. If you’ve been wondering what exactly a microinteraction is, you’ve come to the right place. In this article, we’ll look not only at […]

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Incomplete User Experien…

Ever experienced that warm, happy feeling when you walk back to your desk and your bluetooth peripheral (say, a speaker) automatically re-connects to your smartphone? Felt good, didn’t it? Now imagine this: you’re playing music on the bluetooth speaker; every time you leave your desk and get back, you have to manually pair your phone […]

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Maps of the rendering world.

Does a metal surface look similar to a rubberized one? Does a piece of glass reflect light the same way a piece of clear plastic does? No, right? (I sure hope you said NO!!). That is because of their different textures. Every object has an inherent texture and this makes it immediately identifiable. Nothing in […]

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Ready, Set, Render!

If there is one thing I did a lot of during the weekend, it was (No, not procrastination!) digital rendering. I learned a bunch of things about rendering, both from practice and from the internet. I thought these could be useful to us designers. Most of what we are going to be dealing with might […]

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For color’s sake : Part 2.

Ever felt hungry all of a sudden looking at a burger king? Or felt the urge to rip open a pack of beautiful M&Ms right off the store shelf and start eating them? Im sure many of us have had similar experiences quite a few times! Wondered why that happens? Its all about that color! […]

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For color’s sake!!

                             Which one of those pictures caught your eye? It was the one on the left, wasn’t it?! Now, why do you think that happened? Because the photograph has colors in it! We humans are used to seeing the world in color, […]

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