Exploring AI image generation. — The prompt sci-fi dream autumn landscape with a white castle, colorful autumn maple leaves, trees, satellite view, hyper detailed, dreamy, volumetric lighting The image I am sure by now you have heard about AI image generators like Midjourney, Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, Nightcafe etc. Irrespective of which tool you use, what’s surprising is the fact…

A UX case study — If you have been following my posts, you may have read an article I published earlier this year about my experience of un-subscribing my email ID from a website where someone had registered it without my consent. This bring me to todays topic, why some companies do not validate the…

An illegal UX practice that needs to end. — We have all experienced those unwanted spam emails and have hit that “unsubscribe” link as soon as we could. Most of the time it works, but not everyone adheres to the FTC rules and we are left wondering how to get rid of that annoyance. Recently I have been experiencing…

Coding in processing — You are probably familiar with the Fibonacci sequence where each subsequent number is a sum of previous two numbers. A simple mathematical representation of Fibonacci sequence would be written as: F(n)=F(n-1)+F(n-2) for n>1. This would result in a sequence: 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,… Fibonacci sequence is also closely related to the Golden Ratio…

I learned a very important lesson about design while I was studying Architecture. We used to have a course called “Basic Design” where they taught us sketching, color theory, wood work, carpentry and pottery. During one of this class, the professor asked the entire class to do about 50+ sketches…

A UX research project to re-think the touchscreen smartphone dial-pad. — This article is about the UX research that I am doing. The research website is located at: http://ssdesigninteractive.com/dialpad_research/ and The related app is at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dial-pad-ux/id1288812537 Update: A new version of the app is now available (V 1.02). This will allow you to download this app for iOS 10.

Part-1 Note: These are very high level thoughts. In a series of follow-up articles, I would like to dive deeper into each of the concepts described below. The aim is to build a design framework for conversational UX. So please feel free to contribute your thoughts. It has been a…

(The title assumes that my problem is due to Uber’s broken AI engine. If it was not AI and the responses you see below are from real people, than the problem is even worst.) Here is a really frustrating story about me and Uber support. Before I continue, this is…

This happened yesterday So we all receive many crazy marketing emails, but this one stood out and I paid attention, but of a different kind. Threadless is a good brand and I love their T-Shirts. Yesterday they decided to send me this email: I thought that it was a smart…