Archive for November, 2007
Laptops - as designed by 7 year olds
Published November 19, 2007 Good bad and ugly , Technology for real life , Usability , Usability improvement , User Experience , design 0 CommentsTags: fresh ideas by kids, laptop design, laptops 7 yr olds design, new design ideas, new designs, vinodh nanadkumar
Physics with some crayon
Published November 17, 2007 Ideas! , Requirements gathering , Technology for real life , Usability , User Experience , User Interface , cool technology , geeky , product reviews 2 CommentsTags: cool games, crayon physics, functional specifications, gaming, kloonigames, requirements, tablet pc, user experience on the tablet, vinodh nandakumar
Isn’t this game incredibly cool, check the video below. Looks like you really need to know your physics well to play this one 
This one is from Kloonigames and runs on the tablet PC. A PC version of crayon physics is coming soon.
The user experience on this is incredible, watch how the game reacts as the user draws different figures and tries to achieve their objective. With the Wii and PS3 giving PC games a run for their money, I think innovative concepts like this one are a really good answer.
This makes me wonder about the process of gathering requirements for this game. I’m thinking, there are so many scenarios that need to be captured and then taking a call on which ones the game needs to support and deciding others to be left out. Phew ! It’s actually my dream to do requirements, scenarios and functional specifications for a gaming product. Wouldn’t that be cool
No Barcamp for me :(
Published November 16, 2007 Collaboration , Cool stuff , Events I'm attending , Ideas! , geeky 0 CommentsTags: barcamp, barcampbangalore, barcampbangalore5, barcamping, bcb5, Events I'm attending, vinodh nandakumar, vinodhn
Stuck in Seattle with the rain and a marathon requirements gathering session :). So no barcamp for me this time. Damn! the collectives were really good this time and some very interesting topics.
Anyways if you are at barcamp and are blogging/liveblogging or microblogging, leave me your link as a comment, I’m going to be following this from here And of course kudos to the organizers, impressive list of sponsors!
And yo! found some really nice badges on the BCB5 site, so if you are blogging make sure that you use them.
Twitter poster mashup
Published November 9, 2007 Cool stuff , Social Networking , Social Tech , User Experience , product reviews 0 CommentsTags: API, mashups, twitter, twitter following, twitter poster, vinodh nandakumar, vinodhn
Nice concept ! The new Twitter poster from Spanish company Come and Click Networks provides a mashup of Twitter users sized relatively to the influence of each Twitter user, based on the number of followers and the number of Tweets the populars make.
These posters are now available for the United States, Japan, Brazil, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Australia, Italy, Mexico, Canada, France and Taiwan, in addition to a global poster on the front page. Now this is a nice concept and goes to shwo how mashups can surface up a lot of important information.
However I wonder what would be the real usefulness of something like. It’s eye candy! yes, no doubt about that, but could this lead to a digg style user rating mechanism in Twitter ?
How do you think this can be leveraged and can you build a business opportunity through this mashup ?
