Google Master Plan

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Designing for AJAX

A great presentation shared on SlideShare. The presentation is about Designing for AJAX - principles and patterns for rich interaction.

Usefulness of Breadcrumb Navigation

I have always found Breadcrumb navigation very useful and Jakob Nielsen in his latest alertbox has written at length about usefulness of breadcrumb navigation which is considered to be secondary navigation.

Here are few important tips about breadcrumbs:

• Breadcrumbs show people their current location relative to higher-level concepts, helping them understand where they are in relation to the rest of the site.
• Breadcrumbs afford one-click access to higher site levels and thus rescue users who parachute into very specific but inappropriate destinations through search or deep links.
• Breadcrumbs never cause problems in user testing: people might overlook this small design element, but they never misinterpret breadcrumb trails or have trouble operating them.
• Breadcrumbs take up very little space on the page.

There has been an argument that breadcrumbs are so minute that many people overlook them and they benefit only a majority. So why to use such a design element?
Jakob Nielsen writes

As I've long argued, breadcrumbs are different than most other little-used design elements for the simple reason that they don't hurt users who ignore them.

To read the entire article, click here.

E-Mail Judo

Thats how we IT guys work! :P
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Light Painting

Interesting.. huh?! This is a product of Light Painting Workshop.

Light painting is a photographic technique in which light sources are projected or "painted" using handheld light source in selective areas during the camera exposure. All work is done in camera, no computer manipulation occurs.
Exposure can range from 20 seconds onwards to an entire evening to achieve!

For more on light painting, click here. Meanwhile check out more of our cool work:

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