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Highlighted through Business Exchange

My article, ‘Tips for effective DIY Participant Recruitment for Usability Testing’, is pointed to by Business Week’s Business Exchange.
Featured on Cool Home Pages

Cone Trees is featured in the extremely popular (and one of the original website design galleries) Cool Home Pages.
Pranav Mistry’s “Sixth Sense”, game-changing wearable technology- a talk by Patties Maes

“Sixth Sense” is spearheaded by Pranav Mistry at MIT. It’s a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for a profound, data-rich interaction with our environment. Imagine Minority Report. About Pranav Mistry Pranav Mistry is a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Lab. He got his master and bachelor…
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Cone Trees is featured on the website gallery section of Ajax Finder.
Solution to query_posts(‘orderby=rand’) not working in WordPress

I had been wondering for a few months by now; why was it that I was able to display random posts in my downloads widget on my local server but not on the live site? I was using <?php query_posts(‘orderby=rand’); ?> to do the job. The downloads widget on my website was supposed to display…
David Merill on Siftables, the toy blocks that think

David Merill talks about Siftables which he created along with Jeevan Kalanithi at the MIT Media Lab. As is mentioned at Jeevan and Merill’s Taco Lab Siftables are independent, compact devices with sensing, graphical display, and wireless communication. They can be physically manipulated as a group to interact with digital information and media. Siftables provides…
jQuery Masked Input Plugin- Increase usability, input masks for text fields

Summary The jQuery masked input plugin lets you improve the form filling experience by providing an elegant solution to inputting data for fields such as date and telephone number, etc. Use a single text box with built in formatting cues and achieve effective error prevention instead of using the usual combination of dropdowns or a…
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My presentation, ’15 Tips for Effective Usability Testing in India’, is featured on the front page of SlideShare (which is a pleasure since it’s chosen out of thousands of great presentations out there).
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Cone Trees is featured in the website design gallery website Best CSS Designs.
Stephen Palmer on Aesthetic Science: Understanding Preferences for Colour and Spatial Composition

Stephen Palmer, Professor of Psychology & Cognitive Science, University of California, Berkeley, reports results from three projects that investigate people’s aesthetic responses to spatial and color composition. The results show that ‘aesthetic science’, a new and exciting topic within cognitive science, can help us increase our understanding on the nature of our appreciation of the…