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Tentrr.com — Usability Evaluation

May 10th, 2022

5 minutes

Tentrr.com is a campsite booking website with over 1000 campsites spread across the US. It features an advanced filters and maps functionalities to find the right campsite for the users' needs. We segmented the users of the website by referring to the Annual North American…

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GrubHub Android App — Heuristic Evaluation

February 3rd, 2022

4 minutes

What does Schneiderman’s golden rules reveal about the app. Reduce Short-term Memory Load Problem After adding some items on the restaurant page, I have to remember the quantity or visit my cart every time to see the quantity. Recommendation Show the quantity added to the cart…

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MuscleWiki — Usability Evaluation

November 24th, 2021

20 minutes

I have been in the fitness journey since 5 years and I discovered MuscleWiki website around two years ago when it started being referred to a lot in the fitness communities of Reddit. I use it as a reference whenever I start with a new exercise and also to calibrate my diet…

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A Greeting Card with a twist!

June 7th, 2021

2 minutes

A friend of mine was leaving to the US for pursuing higher studies in a week or so and I wanted to gift her something valuable so that she can use it frequently and tiny so that she can carry it along the way. And it also shouldn't be something that she already had. I started…

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How I rebuilt my (OLD) Portfolio+Blog website.

February 5th, 2021

5 minutes

I recently revamped my portfolio website from a bare-bones static site to a robust new architecture and this explains my journey of this project I had a plain HTML+CSS based website as my portfolio until a few months ago, when I realized how non-scalable it was. For every new…

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The ingenious new sync subtitles feature on VLC for Android.

January 1st, 2021

3 minutes

VLC for Android has a new way to synchronize subtitles without having to guess the times. Although VLC has never been complimented much for its design, it has been the G.O.A.T. media player due to its utilitarian nature and of course for being an open source project. It also…

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Using Intersection Observer API to make button styling contextual.

October 29th, 2020

4 minutes

Intersection Observer is like a sniper rifle, and the browser is the hitman. You need to tell the hitman to look at a particular building and use his rifle to take actions on the targets . We all love the minute but highly engaging feedback we get when we do small things like…

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The second reason why JioTV may most certainly fail.

October 16th, 2020

3 minutes

The next step to Reliance Jio's market expansion, JioFiber is a high-speed internet service to homes in India that comes with a "smart" TV Connection. This is lucrative on the surface, but has underlying flaws. What’s the first reason though? Yes. The first reason. It is very…

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