The quotes below are from Don Norman’s article: Design Thinking: A Useful myth …more important, and more legitimate reason to embrace the term “design thinking.” It positions design in a unique way, forcing companies to view design differently than before. The emphasis on “thinking” makes the point that design is more than a pretty face: [...]

One of the most popular themes that I’ve ported to Drupal is the Pixel theme for WordPress.  It was originally called the Pixeled theme and now renamed to Drixel to avoid trademark issues. I’ve recently converted Drixel’s XHTML mark up to HTML5 and added CSS 3 gradients to the submit buttons. Download link for the [...]

While building HTML 5 pages for static sites, I got interested in HTML 5 mark up for Drupal. The following is the HTML 5 code that can be used in the block.tpl.php file in Drupal.  While I do have plans to publish a HTML 5 ready theme for Drupal, for now here’s a code snippet [...]

In 2007, I was aware that I had an interest in (what I called) the ergonomics of applications, electronic devices and websites although I wasn’t aware that there was a pre-existing process that concerned the same called the User Experience Process. My initial contact with the User Experience Process was as a remotely employed Information [...]

Indians of European descent in India are, by Indian law, called Anglo-Indians. Specifically, Article 366(2) of the Indian Constitution states than an Anglo-Indian is: a person whose father or any of whose other male progenitors in the male line is or was of European descent but who is domiciled within the territory of India and [...]

I've started writing posts on http://stevejbayer.wordpress.com as posts that are hosted on Wordpress could survive much longer than posts on a self sponsored website. As most of my posts are personal or professionally related, it made sense for me to host them on a specialized blogging website. Were my posts strictly business or promotion website, it would not matter to me if the posts disappeared when the site they are posted on is no longer active. >>> Read More

While reading a blog post by Aza Raskin, I ideated the following solution for reducing tab clutter in browsers. The ‘list all tabs’ option on the far right of the browser currently displays all open tabs and the user can launch the tabbed page by clicking on the listed name of the web page in [...]

The post that made the call for naming the profession of ‘Interaction Design:’ http://www.asktog.com/columns/057ItsTimeWeGotRespect.html While using the term ‘design’ in naming the profession is technically accurate,  I am personally still wary of using design in the title for marketing reasons as design is seen as mostly decorative and cosmetic by the majority of developers. While [...]