TRUTH

Friend Request ?

To me definition of friend is, a person who really cares, is not jealous, truly feels happy in your happy moments, feel equally bad in bad times, and help when needed. Treating the other person with respect shows the real friend in a person. The tone in which a person talks, the way a person treats other person mean a lot to me. I do not like people taking the other person for granted, demanding, making fun in front of others, letting down in front of others.

I have always hated when a so called friend talks between the 2 in a group when others in the scene are totally forgotten. I believe in etiquette and I am totally uncomfortable in such places. Two people can talk but eventually they should let others in the group know what they discussed. If it’s something that cannot be shared it could better be discussed in private.

Social networking websites help us to get connected with friends, colleagues, acquaintances, sometimes so called friends. Most of the times we even add people whom we have not seen, met and probably just talked over the phone hardly once. Sometimes we end up getting requests from people whom we know with traits that I have described above. I knew one such person who have made me totally uncomfortable in several occasions and now wants to add me in her network. What kind of a person is she?

It gives so much relief when I ignore and just move on with my work when such requests come. There is no better diplomatic reaction I could think of other than this.

जो भी करो दिल से करो
सब की सुनो, दिल की करो
बुरे वक़्त में घबराना नहीं
अच्छे वक़्त में पगलाना नहीं

वाह रे वाह..............तालियाँ

आखिर ज़िन्दगी क्या है

तन्हाई तन्हाई
दिल के रास्ते में कैसे टोकर मैंने खायी
टूटे कहाब सारे एक मायुं सी है छाई
हर ख़ुशी सो गयी, ज़िन्दगी खो गयी
तुमको जो प्यार किया मैंने तो सजा मैं पायी

कवाब में देखा था एक आँचल
मैंने अपने हाथों में
अब टूटे सपनों के शीशे चुब्ठे हें इन आँखों में
कल कोई था यहीं, अब कोई भी नहीं
बनके नागिन जैसे है सांसों में लहराई

क्यों ऐसी उम्मीद की मैंने
जो ऐसे ना काम हुई
दूर बनायीं थी मंजिल
थो रस्ते में ही शाम हुई
अब कहाँ जून मैं, किसको समझाउं मैं
क्या मैंने चाह था और क्या किस्मत में आई

कुछ गाने ऐसे हें जिसको पदथे वक़्त दिल का दर्पण जैसे लगता है....इस गाने में जो गहराई है, लगता है की लिकने वक़्त कवी ने पूरा मह्स्सोस करके लिखा हो..

User Interface

Analyzing web sites is something I like to do. I have jotted down how the web site looks and what could be improved for most of the websites that I have used. I have analyzed as a user, what are the difficulties using the website and what kind of friendly features could be implemented. As a hobby and as a user, I have analyzed Chinmayi’s blue elephant, Macy’s, jcpenney, kohls, APS, Amazon, Apple, some restaurant websites and some more.

I like Amazon, Apple and Macy’s website a lot. Someone asked me to analyze Amazon’s website once and asked me what kind of improvement one can make in the website. There could be several one can think of. I am not a very brilliant person nor have I extensively re modeled UI applications. But I have enormous interest in UI. I feel presentation makes a great impact on people as a first step before anyone cares to explore a feature. In that aspect Apple and Amazon have unbeatable websites and products. Don’t they?

Here’s what I could think of as an improvement in Amazon’s website:

Amazon lists all the recent searches done by the user. Say like I look for watches, it always lists relevant watches and deals on the home page and all the recent searches made so far.

1) Going a step further, I would think based on a combination of searches made, like jewelry+watches+shoes, it would be a nice feature to suggest other things like clothes, handbags etc although a user would not have looked up these items in the past. I feel that way it is an option for the user to look at other product lines that might be of interest to him/her.

2) Similarly when I look for a watch of particular prize, I would like to have this feature:

When I move my mouse over the watch of a particular prize, it should display watches in that range like a flickr photo page.(although the watches are displayed based on the sort type we choose from the drop down in the page currently).

May be the points that I have listed out are silly..but still I tried to attempt :)

I am an Apple user since 2007. I was not aware of Apple Ipod until it was gifted to every employee in my company. I just love the features, UI, friendly usage etc. Brilliant brains behind those products!

Coming back to UI psychology, Its very important to analyze human minds to design user interface for a website, product because in my mind the first impression creates the best impression.

Akele Hum Akele Tum

Some songs are very mesmerizing. This is one such song which is my all time favorite.

जब मन दुखी है, अकेलापन हें, तन्हाई महसूस होती है, तब ये गाना मुझे हमेशा याद आती है। इस गाने में एक मधुरता है और दुखी मन को पंखों से दवा दिलाने जैसे सुलाती है।

जब भी यह गाना सुनती हूँ, तब आँखों से पानी उबरकर आती है और मन हल्का हो जाता है