http://amitpande.in Amit's musings on life, innovation, design, and all things experience Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:03:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Grieg concert hall should be your landmark in ‘downtown’ Bergen if you get airdropped by culturally boorish aliens in the middle of Norway. Edvard Grieg is both a local and international legend, famous for ‘The Hall of the Mountain King’, a very evocative piece ... http://amitpande.in/2011/08/03/grieg-in-the-rain-a-summer-week-in-bergen-norway/ Helsinki is different. An amalgam of technology, art, culture with the texture of Europe and the taste of a future-Earth. I started my Helsinki journey in late June with the perfect companion - a lovely new hard science fiction novel called The Quantum Thief by Hannu ... http://amitpande.in/2011/08/03/helsinki-game-on/ It recently struck me that part of the problem in digital User Experience Design is the paltry vocabularies often used to describe the end state of a design. Consider the following conversation between a digital designer and his or her CEO: Designer: Ok, here are the 3 best options i could come ... http://amitpande.in/2011/03/02/the-confused-vocabulary-of-user-experience-design-outcomes-i/ Last week I went to see "I Hate Luv Storys", a movie taking inspiration from superhits like Love Aaj Kal and touting itself to be the latest offering in the different-from-past-century-love-stories genre. IHLS and their ilk are trying to differentiate themselves from run of the mill love stories through some ... http://amitpande.in/2010/07/06/bollywood-stop-doing-your-same-old-same-old/ Restarting this blog after 9 months....watch this space http://amitpande.in/2009/09/22/light-re-entry-into-the-blogosphere/ I feel sad writing this post. After a rather interesting World Usability Day event last Saturday where we heard several claims and lists of features by the BIAL COO and future-CEO, I experienced first hand today several breakdowns and several experience nightmares at BIAL. Let me list a few here. First, ... http://amitpande.in/2008/12/06/bengaluru-international-airport-you-can-do-so-much-more/ We've been working hard towards organizing an interesting, relevant, and high impact Bangalore World Usability Day this year. I'm happy that BIAL put up a big ass 10 by 2 metres banner at the Bangalore Airport to announce the event. The BIAL COO (and projected CEO) Mr. Marcel Hungerbuehler is speaking ... http://amitpande.in/2008/11/24/4-days-to-world-usability-day-bangalore/ Via Bloomberg, some news that should cheer up job seekers: http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.asxx?clip=mms://media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vqBhv_DWum98.asf&vCat=/ceo&RND=024451517 I just hope we use the economic opportunities this downturn provides and emerge stronger by 2010, especially on the infrastructure side. http://amitpande.in/2008/11/18/manpower-sees-india-avoiding-worst-job-losses/ Via Sequoia Capital's presentation to CEOs, a blunt and analytic take on the current economic and financial downturn and its implications. The lessons pretty much apply to everybody in the business of business... http://amitpande.in/2008/10/23/sequoia-capital-warns-ceos-to-tighten-belts/ http://amitpande.in/2008/10/05/50-days-of-no-smoking/