User Experience for Mobile and Desktops

My sister is still using rediffmail's old UI. Reason? she got used to that. And she is not comfortable with the other UI that copies Yahoo Mail. I found a usability issue in the old UI. Rediffmail displays the "From" address as link and Subject as non-link (plain text). That was a silly usability issue. Why not the subject be given as a link. Usually people read the "From" column and read the corresponding "Subject" column. If the "Subject" is of importance to them, they naturally move the mouse and click the subject. To be safe, I would say majority of people tend to click the subject and not the From address. Rediffmail makes the user to click the FROM column, and in situation where the user uses a ultra wide screen, it is damn tedious. Rediff guys, if you read this blog, please enable the subject line as links. - Rajesh Sundaram

Improving RankQuest.com - HTML Validator tool UI Following my previous post about Improving User Experience in 2 hours, here is another UI which I designed for Rankquest.com’s HTML Validator tool. RankQuest is a great site for SEO Techies. They offer good articles, and some cool tools that are really useful for website managers and developers. HTML Validator HTML Validator is one such simple tool, which uses HTML Tidy in the back-end. Their front-end UI is pretty basic and the results closely follow the Tidy’s result pattern, which is difficult to read and grasp the overall result. My UI suggests a simple dashboard which says whether the URL given is OK or BAD using a single icon metaphor. And within a single line it lists the number of errors and warnings. Below the dashboard, there comes the RankQuest HTML Scanner. This is my idea of showing “where the error is” instead of a lenghty “Line 1 Coloumn 32: erroor”. This precisely gives the visual location of where the error is. A u...