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Design Guides List

I often refer to design guides by well known companies to create design guides for the project I work on.
Here are the list of few very well know company design guides , which provides very rich information on how to write a successful guideline and very of course some very good resources about design best [...]

Some links for light reading …

W3C has launched new website – http://www.w3.org/
Usability Testing vs. Expert Reviews ( UXMatters article by Janet M Six)
New prototyping + wire framing + usability testing tool on the block – Pidoco

Review by 90percent of everything
Review by Steffen Zörnig

New UX Q&A site – http://uxexchange.com/. It runs the same software that powers Stack Overflow.
Interesting article by Jens [...]

Coding for Mobile

I was experimenting for writing webpages for mobile sites. I was looking for some guideline and resources.I will try to document what I found.
First what found is for mobile doctype should be used for mobile site.
Two options found
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN”
“http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd”>
or
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.2//EN”
“http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd”>
No they are almost similar except [...]

CUE Training

As a part of awareness building across the company we arranged for a 3 day seminar and workshop session.First two session were mainly lecture session where we talked about design, user experience, usability, best practices, front-end engineering and accessibility. Final session was on aesthetics and design principles.
We conducted an workshop at the last session, and [...]

Hello world!

At last I have my own blog. The name is awkword I know
I actually registered this domain for some other stuff, it didn’t happen…thought why waste money. I wanted a blog ..let’s have it here itself … so here I am.
Happy beginning