Quantitative and qualitative

I have been thinking about metrics, especially web metrics and attempting to reconcile the use of quantitative measurements on qualitative experiences. So for example, you had the banana pudding at a restaurant and rated it a 9 out of 10. You would be applying a scale to something that is …

We won!

  The Citi ThankYou Network Homepage (entered September 28, 2007), under the category ‘Banking’, has won the IMA Outstanding Achievement Award with an overall score of 478! The score broke down like this: Design: 95 Content: 97 Feature Functionality: 95 Usability: 96 Standards Compliance & Cross-Browser Compatibility: 95

Yoshirolla Kilomantra update

So we have exactly one month left in the yoshirolla kilomantra contest, which ends September 10th. In a last ditch effort to climb in the rankings I have created 4 new pages. In keeping with my breaking the words yoshirolla kilomantra apart into the component syllables I have created the …

Crash me baby!

One of my co-workers posted this gem on the Web dev blog, which actually came from another blog, Command Line Warriors. It is basically how to crash IE in just 5 tags and a CSS declaration. <style>*{position:relative}</style><table><input /></table> that is it. Put that in your code and it will crash …

Cool Stuff

Sometimes the best sites I come across are not really websites in a conventional sense. They are not designed to sell something, or provide any factual information per se. They are more…experiments. They are little pieces of artwork that are stunning not only for their design aethetics but also for …

Proper launch procedure

Recently one of the clients I work on had a major launch. This was a project months in the making and is making a major difference in their customer behavior. What I found disturbing was the fact that they launched it at noon mid-week. One of the things to consider …