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Posts under ‘Users’
How to ignore best practices; a real world example from Indian Banking industry
Many many eons ago, my pocked was picked in local trains of Mumbai at Dadar railway station. More than the monies I was worried about the PAN card and the Debit card. My bank ICICI took more than month or so to re-issue it to me. It was my daily To Do to call up [...]
Customer Service Trend : Volunteer, Social & People Powered
Hugh Pickens on Slashdot writes: Unpaid Contributors Provide Corporate Tech Support "The NY Times writes about Justin McMurry of Keller, TX, who spends up to 20 unpaid hours per week helping Verizon customers with high-speed fiber optic Internet, television and telephone service. McMurry is part of an emerging corps of Web-savvy helpers that large corporations, [...]
Tweetbomb – a tweet which can save, shave or shake the world
@Keith Kliner talks about a very interesting phenomenon ‘tweetbomb’, some future tweet on twitter which has the potential to reach 100 million people, mobilize them and cause an ‘act’. Something very similar to flashmobs, but much more faster and at a very large scale. And not necessarily for good. What Keith Kliner talks about may [...]
What Is A successful Web User Interface / GUI ?
We all talk about Usability, usability and usability, we also have a definition for it and repeat the words like mantra – but to tell you the truth, still with so much of understanding, experience and usage of the web more than half of the working and experienced professional do not know what the usability [...]
Usability on Television
Usability on web simply defined means making your site easy for your customers to find the exact information they need when they need it. From the context of television programming it would mean making your content & interfaces easy for your customers to get the exact information that they need or you are wanting to [...]
Why my Mobile Bill is not user friendly
Every month I get the same subject line The mail body is also the same every month. How to open the PDF and the password directives. It’s more painful because I have two mobiles Why can’t the bill say : Santosh here’s your bill for the month of August 2008 for 919xxxxxxxxx. Please be kind [...]
Online Advertising – Context is ‘The User’
Older Internet Users Feel Web Advertising and Content Not Relevant well if you see just the age demographics, you can see so much of a confusion, if you add other demographics such as sex, location, interest and such complains from user will rise exponentially. No matter, how much we complain about privacy and other issues, [...]
Importance of Search Engines in User Experience
Pure Visibility talks about how search engines contribute to the online user experience. Anybody who skims through search engines and referral logs has come across this: What is also noteworthy is the large drop in other marketing channel efforts, such as referrals and direct traffic. Effectively visitors are relying on Google as their “bookmark” engine, [...]
The Future of User Experience
Users are creating content, they are creating instant mashup application, they are using the social networks in the open and API’d world. You can now see loads of information on the user screen than it was in the past. The user interfaces also needs to evolve rapidly adjusting to this information overload and ReadWriteWeb has [...]
More women are online now
Women are topping up the net usage now. Digital Journal points to the study conducted by Pew Internet which says that 74% of all U.S. women are online and they continue to dominate most elements of content creation and are becoming the most prolific web users: 5 per cent of U.S. teen girls blog, compared [...]
The Most Painful Points of Customer Interactions With Your Business
I have gathered the real word examples from my own experiences and its looks at what are the various difficulties which your customers may face when they are interacting with you. Call Centre: Shut them if they do not care for customer care Most of the call centres by businesses are run to benefit the [...]
Importance, Applications & Treatment of User Feedback
Via Adam Schwabe : Top-10 Application Design Mistakes by web usability guru, Jackob Nielsen. 1. Non-Standard GUI Controls: What I find true "If Jakob’s Law is "users spend most of their time on other websites," then Jakob’s Second Law is even more critical: "Users have several thousand times more experience with standard GUI controls than [...]
Multitasking, Double Dipping and Typers vs Talkers – TV and Online User Behavior
I had previously pointed to the recent study by comScore which said 75% of total American internet users. Now blinks, a video search engine announced the results of a new survey on television and online video viewing with these results: Media Multitasking, Typers Vs Talkers & Duouble Dippers – The habits that new web & [...]
Web user classification or typology
This post talks about what kind of web user are you and points to the study conducted by Pew Internet and American Life Project. The complete PDF report can be downloaded here # 8% of Americans are deep users of the participatory Web and mobile applications # 23% are heavy, pragmatic tech adopters – they [...]
Kathy & Tim on creating passionate users
Kathy Sierra is my most favorite blogger so far. Infact, my blog is kind of inspired by her blog creation passionate users. Inspired by the name, I created my blog ‘how to make users happy‘. Unfortunately, she doesn’t blog now due to some reasons. But I am still under the awe of her brilliant content [...]
User friendly registration process; don’t annoy the user
Do you know that you loose a very high proportion of users just at the time of registration itself ? And I am sure, you must be aware about the conversion rate – site visitor wanting to become a registered user. So when the user has decided to register on your site, do yourself a [...]
How do you evaluate user satisfaction ?
What is user satisfaction ? The satisfaction of your users, the contentment that your users feel when they are using your product and services or interacting with your brand in anyway – The feeling that they have done right, that their choice is right, that they got the best, that they have paid the right [...]
My name is Santosh Maharshi, an ex-bollywood child artiste & now an Internet & Media professional from last 12 years. I have worked with