In April 2007 Alist Apart did a survey on Web Design. Almost 33,000 professional took the survey and the results are out yesterday. I have answered the survey questions on april 26th. Till now i eagerly waited for the compiled results.

264 (0.8%) web designers took the survey from india.

You can download the raw date of those who participated in the survey, in the raw data we can find answers to the each question by each participant.

Survey findings are in a PDF file with illustrated charts.

Raj anna thanks for your support.
Raj installed wordpress 2.2.2, tested and running everything was fine.
I have customized a theme provided by Kaushal Sheth.

New place New look & New hopes.

Imagine if your browser is not only a markup rendering engine, and it acts as an information broker. We usually visit different websites to fulfill our needs or daily activities like buying & selling something, gather some information or manage our social network. The general model is we travel to a particular site then proceed to enter data. Information is scattered in the web we have to choose which site we want to use. If we don’t have any idea which site to use then we search it on the web. Imagine a scenario i want to sell my old car and i blog about it, and a classifieds website find it when it aggregate advertisements across the web.

Have you been over hearing people talk about Microformats and thought to yourself “what are those?”

Microformats can be defined as

simple conventions for embedding semantic markup for a specific problem domain
in human-readable (X)HTML/XML documents, Atom/RSS feeds, and “plain” XML
that normalize existing content usage pattern
using brief, descriptive class names
often based on existing inter operable standards
to enable decentralized development
of resources, tools, and services

Examples:
Flickr using microformats which lets user to geotag their photos
upcoming.yahoo.com using hCalender microformat to aggregate events.

I got engaged with sri lakshmi on 9th may 2007 at her home in visakhapatnam.
She is a computer science graduate, my marriage would be on 25th August 2007.

1 from ping mag its really funny but informative.

2 from 37 signals Using patterns in webdesign

Alist Apart is conducting a survey.
You can win prizes!! go and take the survey. click the image above.

It was hard enough to master all the different skills involved in being a good user experience architect. Most of us are generalists. We need to know enough about technology to work with engineers. We need to know enough about visual design to work with designers. Every time we start a new project, we need to learn about our client’s business and their business problems, until we can recite them in our sleep. We need to be part designer, part psychologist, part researcher, part corporate therapist. We need to be able to write cogently, sketch our ideas so that even the most distracted marketing executives can understand them, and give killer presentations. -Katrina Alcorn

Here is a Presentation for the future Managers of UX teams.

Now personalised google homepages can change themes based on the location and timezone.
Check it www.google.com/ig

I have accepted an offer from Kanbay(a CapGemini group of company). Yesterday was my last day in Wipro Technologies and today is my first day in Kanbay. I have reached
hyderabadby 8.30 am. From Ameerpet to the Madhapur auto wala charged me 180 bucks but he helped me in searching the guest house. I thought he deserves 20 more bucks i have paid him 200/-. By the time i reach the guest house it was 9.30 am. I took a quick bath and left to office. Finished my joining formalities by 12.oo pm. And the office is tooo … far from the city you can’t find a single auto near to the campus. I felt very bad whether this campus would be my work place. After finishing all of my joining formalities vandana directed me to go to another campus to meet my Project Managers. Now i am at JVP campus and writing this blog. I have met one of the tech lead he explained me something blah blah about Kanbay and about the work. with the conversation i came to know that they are not interested in providing HFI certification but there will be a lot of internal knowledge sharing sessions. I like the JVP campus its not too big like wipro; just park your vehicle within 2 jumps you will be at your desk. There will be no work for me for the first week. Enjoy Maadi.!

huh! Everything is fine. Now onwards i won’t miss any article posted in my favorite sites. created a google reader account. below is the screen shot