Book summary: ‘Building data-intensive applications’ by Martin Kleppmann. (Part 1)

I ended up picking up this modern classic after a lot of trepidation. It is voluminous & the author says it is meant for...

Search bar UX.

Comparing top android apps to understand how context influences design decisions. Designing the search box experience is a critical component of the overall search...

UX for an android app to control your home’s carbon footprint

I took up a project to help me put a structure to how I would build the UX  plus understand the various aspects linked...

Mobile web development – Summary

The critical elements to take care of when developing for mobile web are: Responsive design, given the wide array of mobile handsets displays in...

Mobile web development – Device sensors

Device Sensors The mobile typically has far more sensors than a desktop or a laptop – camera for stills & video, GPS, audio input &...

Mobile web development – Offline and storage

Offline  On mobile devices, the users may not always have a good network connection – however the web app should still work. So it...

Mobile web development – User Input & Touch

User Input User input has to be made easy for users and font sizes have to be big enough for majority of the users....

Mobile web development – Responsive images

Responsive images When you work with making your pages responsive across devices, you also need to make sure images are responsive but at minimum...

Mobile web development – Responsive design

Being able to deliver a responsive design is the first key challenge on mobile: a website designed for the desktop to also work smoothly on...

Mobile web development – Building great mobile web experiences

This is a series of posts which are simply my notes from a online course I took up on ‘Mobile Web Development: Building Mobile Web...