How to elevate yourself to UX Leadership?

What do UX Managers look when they hire designers?

Which path should I take? IC or Management? 

How to step into UX Strategy and UX Leadership? 

UXINDIA 2016 is introducing 'UXLadder', a one of a kind un-conference on design careers. UXLadder is a series of audience driven discussions, where experts/mentors from the industry address questions and challenges faced by UX talent in advancing their career. 

This un-conference runs in three tracks for our audience at various levels in their UX career. #ux#uxindiaconf 

UX ESSENTIALS 

for Beginners and Entry level What do UX Managers look when they hire designers? Learn about latest trends in UX hiring, portfolio tips and interview prep. Get insights into how to thrive and move higher up.

UX MASTERY for Mid to Senior Level Which path should I take? IC or Management? Learn about the qualities they see in prospects to hire or promote to senior roles Get insights into the strategies and attitude required to showcase performance.

UX VISIONARY

for Management & Leadership How to elevate yourself to UX Leadership? Learn about the qualities and qualifications to get to leadership roles, both IC and Management. Get insights into the strategies required to showcase achievements and bring visibility.

This program is a payback from UXINDIA for all the love and support we have been receiving from our growing base of loyal audience over the past decade. We gather questions in advance from our audience which will be answered by our experts at the conference besides any other live questions. 

Know more: http://www.2016.ux-india.org/uxladder.html

Responsive, Scalable and Liquid Design

My recent talk on "Responsive, Scalable and Liquid Design"
Responsive, Scalable and Liquid Design. This presentation talks about the new way of web design standard / technique aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience - easy reading - easily accessible and navigation with a minimum of re-sizing, panning, and scrolling across a wide range of devices along with various examples.

Responsive, Scalable and Liquid Design from Ranjeet Kumar Tayi

UX MYTHS

"INTERNET OF THINGS" - The Changing Face of Digital Marketing.

My recent talk on "INTERNET OF THINGS" - The Changing Face of Digital Marketing held on 30th November 2013 at DMIC - Digital Marketing India Conference @ International School of Telecom, Technology and Management, Hyderabad.

"INTERNET OF THINGS" - The Changing Face of Digital Marketing. from Ranjeet Kumar Tayi

The Art of Baby Bathing…

This time i have displayed Nriti's picture which i have captured at my home when she is less than 2 months old at "Reflections" 2013 @ State Art Gallery, Hyderabad. 

Like a chore, bathing seems like another activity engrained in our routine. But a new life as precious as this makes it ceremonious, meticulous and worth capturing. That fear of testing new waters, the relief when it is done cannot be written or said but only felt.

(Santhu, Me and Nriti @ Gallery)

Thrilled with the feedback which i have got from our chief guest Vicky Roy and all other photography friends that they liked this capture the best.  Some of them suggested me to send this for international photography competitions and will plan to do that. You really feel happy when you print, frame and display in the photo exhibition.

My Dad is a new Android User and my observation

My dad lost his Iphone3 recently in a vegetable market. We have all the bills and serial numbers and filed a police compliant. Surprisingly there is a separate huge mobile lost register in the police station and our details were entered but "No Luck".

Got his new duplicate SIM card and given my old Nokia N70 for time being. I noticed that he has lot of difficulty using "Key Pad Phone" with smaller display. He told me that i don't want this "Stupid Buttons". He is a Retd. Govt officer and 63 years old (point tobe noted). I started observing his user behavior very carefully on the "mobile phones" interactions and asked him to play around with My wife's Sony Ericsson and Mom's Samsung Flip Phone and other couple of old phones which are again not "Touch" interface and not "Big Screens". Finally, i have given him my Iphone 4 and he is really comfortable and i noticed "happiness" in his face.

This made me thing more from "User Experience" perspective and nailed down to 4 primary questions.
1) Is he happy with the IPhone "Ease of Use" ?
2) Bigger Screen & Size of the phone?
3) Touch Interface?
4) Apple Brand?

I have asked him to goto a mobile store and play around with all latest mobile phones in the market. He explored multiple mobile phone including Iphone 5, HTC, Samsung, BalckBerry, etc. and finally told me that he like the white phone with Bigger display but expressed that all good  mobiles are damm expensive and above INR -25,000/-. His feedback on Samsung Tablet Phone was "That this don't fit in my pocket" and "Har to Hold" and this not a decent size. Finally as is an existing user of IOS- Iphone3 from almost 2 years, He suggested me to give my Iphone4 for him and you buy a new phone of your like. I was bit curious why my dad is more lean towards Iphone.

After couple of days, on his birthday i have gifted a surprise with a brand new "Samsung Galaxy Duo" white phone. I wanted to observe all his reaction, emotion, excitement and exploration of "Android" as he is using for the first time and an interesting user segment . He was super exited with the new gadget with bigger screen and without a key board. As you guys aware this is an upgrade from Iphone3 to Android. In the past he used to ask me to download multiple apps like Talking Tom, Solitaire etc. With the super excitement  placed his SIM card and stated exploration how to use it. I was bit curious and want him to explore himself and just guide him only if he has some basic questions. He connected to wifi and watched you tube videos, Google around and sent text messages.

My dad is very exited with android than apple and tweaking / swiping all the apps and trying out. Surprisingly i have noticed next morning he is explored skype and also made some viber calls to his friends. When i asked do you love Apple or Samsung, He replied that Apple is also good but i am loving the Samsung Big Screen, More display, White Color and i can do my task easily. He told vibrantly that i want more contacts, videos, music, browse internet for emails, text, and able to see the my recent history and easy to call or end calls.

I think "Excitement" "Emotions" "Happiness" "Ease of Use" "Look N Feel" "Size" "Effectiveness" plays a key role for any product success. I am sure my dad will teach me about new apps, features and feedback in shortly.. :) I am really super exited watching this as a son who is an User eXperience Professional.

Oooh my god, my photograph was SOLD!

{REFLECTIONS} 2nd Annual Photo exhibition by Team HWS - 2012

I am a very active member of photography club called "Hyderabad Weekend Shoots" and was associated from the day this was founded. Every year we volunteer and organize an annual photography group exhibition called "REFLECTIONS". Team HWS (Hyderabad Weekend Shoots) comprises individuals from various walks of life, drawn together by a common passion – Photography. Through the lenses of their cameras, photographers of Team HWS with their energetic shutterbugs explore the continuum of varied subjects and places.

This is the second annual exhibition "Reflections 2" which was held at State Art Gallery form 1-3rd December and  75+ photographers display their work. This photo exhibition witnessed the work of the photographers in diverse fields. It was a tribute and a celebration of the teamwork and we also feel this is a photo festival.

My Picture - "THE SYMBOL OF HYDERABAD" @ Reflections 2012

 This time i have exhibited one of my photograph on "CHARMINAR"  " The symbol of Hyderabad". Charminar is the landmark monument of Hyderabad and picture resembles the signature style of Islamic architecture.Do you know some thing my photograph was bidded by "Mr.Brijesh Nayak" who was a gallery visitor. It is one of the heights of my happiness that "My photograph was sold" and this is for my first time in my life.

With my friends - Prashant Jain, Allipuram Rajsekhar, Me at the Gallery

Mug shot with my friends

With all photographers who has showcased their work

 Overall the 3 days were very memorable and had multiple photography stuff. Keeping every one engaged with activities like mug shots, photographs, time lapse photography, portraits, red carpet photography, and awesome inauguration and closing ceremony. Will post some pics to get a flavor and don't miss our REFLECTIONS 2013 :)

The Story of "US"

Whenever you are telling the story of your group or team connect with the lives of your teammates who were part of the it. Strongly emphasize on the points that will arouse the emotional connect.

Use words like ‘we all’, ‘us’ and everyone rather than ‘I’, ‘me’ and 'myself'. Give due credit to the members of your team and the audience will gauge your level of contribution without your self-proclamation.

Conduct yourself as an honest and open person. Your tone must make the audience feel your advocacy of ‘you cannot do it alone’.

Facebook user types and user behaviors

The 11 TYPES OF USERS & USER BEHAVIORS ON FACEBOOK -
This is very interesting to know this, i am sure we all have one or more of these types of friends on our list. Try to compare your friends list in Facebook and see which type they belongs..

1) The "ROOSTER" –Feels that it is their job to tell Facebook "Good Morning" every day.

2) The "LURKER" –Never posts or comments on your post, but reads everything, and might make reference to your status if they see you in public. ...

3) The "HYENA" –Doesn't ever really say anything, just LOLs and LMAOs at everything.

4) "MR/MS POPULAR" –Has 4,367 friends for NO reason!

5) The "COLLECTOR" –Never posts anything either, but joins every group and becomes fans of the most random stuff.

6) The "PROMOTER" –Always sends event invitations to things that you ultimately delete or ignore.

7) The "LIKER" –Never actually says anything, but always clicks the "like" button.

8) "DRAMA QUEEN/ KINGi" –This person always posts stuff like "I can't believe this!", or "They gonna make me snap today!", in the hopes that you will ask what happened, or what's wrong...but then they never finish telling the story.

9) The "NEWS" –Always updates you on what they are doing and who they are doing it with, no matter how arbitrary, and LASTLY...

10) The "THIEF" –Steals status updates... and will probably steal this one.

11) The "POSTER" - wants to post hundred of pics in just one day!
( credits M Ansari ji from St Georgians alumnus)

Pen Innovation

Came across some interesting pen concept. Its designed based on technology called its called "Recorder". This magic pen that converts your written notes into electronic files and then transfers it to your phone and computer via Bluetooth. We would love to write and sketch lot of things on paper every and imagine if that whole content / illustration get converted aromatically and digitalized and transfers automatically into our phones and computers... I bet every one love this idea and this is an awesome great idea.

Not sure about the spell check but i wish its auto corrects using a inbuilt dictionary. This concept is designed by Xia Xiaoqian, Renming Jun, Han Ricoeur, Liu Peng, Meng Bao, Weicheng Jie & Yang Xiao

My design career started with Apple Macintosh Classic.

I started learning computers & design career with Apple Macintosh Classic. One of my fav computer is Macintosh Classic which was released in 1990, which was 5% faster than MAC SE. I like all the features of some applications like Alarm clock, Calculator ,Chooser (for picking a printer), Notepad, Control Panels, Key Caps, Puzzle, Scrapbook and Ipaint.

It was a great fun recently for me being a matured product designer to play around and explore the black & white old application interaction design @ University of Texas, Art Museum. Some how i am in love with apple from the day i have interacted with Apple Macintosh Classic for the first time and still today, i'm loving it... 

Useful keyboard for designers

Photoshop is a awesome tool for designers. The flexibility of shortcut keys is something which needs to well appreciated. I am so much used to shortcut keys and rarely use menus & navigation. Found an interesting key board and its very useful for any Photoshop designers. Worth sharing... 

FlashMob Dance with Kids on Christmas Day!

Hundreds of children come out of their houses along with their parents to celebrate Christmas, tiny tots snuggled cozily in their parents arms. However, there is other side to this reality. Reality of hundreds of kids who are not so lucky, who do not have parents, kids who are orphans, kids who are homeless, kids who are disadvantaged. Yes - there are a few Samaritans, who make a point to visit them and distribute toffees and sweets on such occasions. But does that make them feel better ? We don't know. So, we thought of turning the story around ~ Instead of we visiting them, we thought why not get them out of their orphanage and allow them to celebrate with the world outside ... in their own style.

It was an amazing experience, the kids are so lovely.. We had great time...! And here is how we did it ..experience this..!

This is organized by Lectures For Good and People behind this project are Preeti Pooja, Tania Dey, Ravi Kumar, Chandra Sekhar Singh, Rama Viswanatha, Nivedita Narsapur, Paritosh Prahraj, Sultan, Ranjeet Kumar Tayi & others who supoorted this event.

Yeh Lal Rang!

A hero is travelling from Karnataka in search of his heroine. In this journey, he travels to various places. The hero of this story is not revealed. There is also a villain who is trying to chase the heroine. What happens next? 

This story is curated with more than seventy pictures of TEAM HWS Photographers (India's most active online  photo walking community) and the unique part of this is that all the photographs are in red theme. This event is organized by me and my TEAM HWS and curated by Kaali Sudheer.

 

 

 

This unique photo exhibition `Yeh Lal Rang'  is open to all from November 13 - 22nd at Muse Art Gallery, Hotel Marriott, Hyderabad. This is a charity event. 

 
All my friends are invited for the photo exhibition "Yeh Lal Rang!"

Jobs - We Salute You...

Steve Job - you are real innovator, a great designer and creator, we feel connected to someone who is also a designer and visionary.You have given new path & many products which made revolution and made people life simpler. You are the one who made people aware of design & its importance how "smart" a product can be. I am avid MAC user and started my career on MAC for learning Photoshop in the year 1998. I have been toggling between Apple  / Windows at work but i love MAC to work with. Apple is something close to my heart and love & feel proud to use all apple gadgets.

You have been struggling with virus called cancer and finally we lost you. You are our true inspiration and role model. Love to  follow your path and keep you quotes in mind always. I love this quote "Stay Hungry... Stay Foolish" and this mean lot to us... You may be gone but you have left such a great legacy. You visualize mixture of art & science to make computing simpler and your design sense created a bond between the people. 

Jobs- You are still in our memory and you are there in our inspiration always. Thanks for everything...You will be our inspiration & memories... WE SALUTE YOU

Making Winning Online Portfolios..my talk at "Freelance Fair Conference" 2011

I was a speaker at "Freelance Fair Conference 2011". My topic of my talk was on "Building Winning Online Portfolios" for designers, writers, bloggers and other freelance professionals. This was held on 7th august 2011 @ Hyderabad.

Freelance fair Conference - 2011

There were many serious freelance professionals attended this event which was organized by "Lectures for Good" organization. My goal for this talk is to showcase the importance of portfolios and make sure every freelancer should have a striking online portfolios. Overall, it was good and happy to see people noting down the notes.

Many people requested my presentation deck and hence i am uploading here so that any one can see it.

Making Winning Online Portfolios

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Google's seamless advertising User Experience Strategy makes big bucks!

In most cases advertising is a killer USER EXPERIENCE in the web context many time. It is very difficult to craft experiences between the context with revenue generating advertisements. In general, most users really hate advertisement as it deviates the context. Google is one example who has mapped seamless user experiences with context sensitive advertising strategy with tiny advertisements (PAY FOR CLICK MODEL). Do you know one thing, Google 97% revenue is from Advertising.

Google is now making $3 billion a month in advertising, the majority of which comes from little text ads next to search results. That's wonderful right? Guess who is spending this huge bucks?

The answer, according to Larry Kim — the founder of a company that sells software to analyze text ad campaigns — is in industries where a customer is worth a lot of money over the long-term.

Wordstream, kim's company analyzed search terms that advertisers pay and grouped 10,000 by industry, using its own software. They have multiplied Cost Per Click - what advertisers pay to Google for some one click on the Google Ads - Times the number of times people click on that word.  Look at the beautiful info graphic of the top 20 industry which explains Google stats visually.
 (Image - Workstream)

The Future of User Interface & Design Technologies

The future if user interfaces - The way we interact with technologies have evolved a lot over the years. Right from the punch cards, typewriters, prints, to monitors, mouses, keyboard, buttons to all the way to the new track pads, voice recognition, multi touch, hand held, gestures and interfaces designed to make it more easier.

Lot of interaction patterns has been changed from "Smaller Vs Bigger"; "Cursor Vs Non Cursor" ; "Less Text Vs More Images"; "More Design Vs Less Design"; "Single Cursor Vs Multi Cursors"; "Vertical Scroll Vs Horizontal Scroll"; "Fixed Layout Vs Scalable Layout"; "Audio Vs Video"; "Remote Vs Gesture" & so on...

Future of user interface design

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THE FUTURE OF INTERFACES still evolving & this gives more opportunity for us (UX'ers) to create great experiences.... I have created a presentation which has various types of user interfaces which gives you a flavor of future current / future trends of user interfaces.

I have uploaded this presentation in SlideShare and immediately got a email from SlideShare that this presentation "The future of Interface & Design Technologies" has showcased in SlideShare main Design section as a awesome master piece by SlideShare editorial team. Again after couple of hours got a email from Slide share that this presentation is hot in facebook and they have moved it to Slide Share Home page. This made me more happier, so called customer experience & satisfaction :)

Hurraiah! Ignite Hyderabad a great success!

Successful organized & managed IGNITE HYDERABAD event Vol on 17th April 2011. What is IGNITE BTW?

Ignite is a global event spread across 100 cities worldwide, organized  by volunteers, where participants are given five minutes to speak  about their ideas and personal or professional passions, accompanied  by 20 slides. Each slide is displayed for 15 seconds, and slides are automatically advanced. The presentations are meant to "ignite" the  audience on a subject, i.e. to generate awareness and to stimulate  thought and action on the subjects presented. The presentations are in  the realm of being inspirational, creative, progressive, transformational, out of the box, etc.

Ignite is independently organized on the local level. Ignite is almost  always free to attend, and is supported financially by sponsorship. Ignite is not elitist in nature and provides platform to anyone who is doing work out of the routine and has ideas to share. http://igniteshow.com. Ignite Hyderabad was held at Lamakaan (creative cultural space) on 17th April 2011. There were 10 amazing inspiring speakers who has ignited Hyderabad. 

Speakers Profile

Each Ignite event has 10 speakers to speak for 5 minutes each. The speaker profile for the inaugural meeting are:

1. Sugandh Rakha, Tech Lead, Amazon, on the topic,  “ I am a person with Stammering”
2. George S. Chandy, mathematician and logician and inventor of One Page Management System (OPMS)
3. Vivek Sign, IIM grad, Presentation Evangelist,on the topic, "Finding the mojo in your powerpoint"
4. AVS Prasad, a homeopathic doctor and a humorous public speaker on the topic, "Public Speaking for Fun"
5. Giridhar Rao, a linguist human rights activist on “Why the World Needs Esperanto?”
6. Jack Jigg ,India's #1 Rock DJ, on topic, “STEP INTO THE MIRROR”
7. Vinay Verma, theatre activist, who also worked with major movies and TV on topic, “ Stage is a World”
8. Ramakrishna Nagasamy, Product Manager, Sum Total System, a Pranik Healer on topic, “How can you heal the world?”.
9. Deepak Mittal, MD of La Belle and founder of youth party Jago party, champion of RTI Act, on the topic, "Politics will always be dirty!"
10. Vijay Ram Kumar, a sweet seller cum environmentalist on topic “Why I do what I do?”

It was a amazing event with live tweets project on the screen, amazing variety of presentations, interaction, networking and what not. We got great response and more than 300 people has joined for this event and will be continuing to organize more events in coming days. I am proud to associate with a great Ignite Hyderabad team and played a key role as a co-curator. It was really a great fun designing all the logos, posters, planning the event, branding, managing social media, inviting speakers, co-ordinating with other team members, brainstorming, etc,

 For more details check face book: www.fb.com/ignitehyd. 

Help Japan... Let us be more Human

A massive magnitude earthquake hit Japan on March 11 causing havoc with blackouts, fire, tsunami and Nuclear Meltdown. Designed some posters to motivate people to donate, help, spread a word, and putting effort to raise funds / donate for Japan and giving moral support.

In times of difficulty, our humanity must compel us to help one another. The Japanese are our brothers and sisters and they need our help in whatever manner we can we must/should gather our resources and offer to them who are in dire need at this time. LET US BE MORE HUMAN... and feel this tragedy***SAVE JAPAN  ***HELP JAPAN

To make donations, here are some links.
Japanese Red cross Society  | Unicef  | Save Children 
American Red Cross  | Doctors Without Boarders