Elements of Design

Well, now i know what it means to be busy at work. It has been a tormenting two week period to say the least. And, thankfully, (touch wood!!) I have been enjoying it. It has been a period of great exposure and learning to put it in a sentence. I have been picking up on Silverlight well, so far and look to doing so in the future. But, as usual, the real challenge has not been the technology, but the ideas, the innovations and the concepts that i have had to develop. Working as a part of an Interface Design team in a software firm is challenging. While a lot of credit goes to the platform team or dev team working on the engine, I have come to realize that it is the User Interface that people get to see and use at the end of the day. It is the logical conclusion to any platform or logic engine in the world, Period! As a part of the UI team we have to take care of a few things or aspects of design and development of a product:
  1. Usability
  2. Looks
  3. Speed/Performance

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Lets make an Exception

Just out of college, a computer engineer, a thinker. Wanted to write some real code. Did write it. Took my 1st snippet of code on to a live production environment. It ran well. Phew!!! No issues there. And then i got my first ever app to write. You know, the one with the user interface. That is when i had my tryst with the end user, the customer, the purpose and the fool.

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