After a quick review of Ayna and Araby’s layout, off to the goody stuff, the actual search experience.
I am really bad in typing Arabic, like really bad. Fortunately both search engines, Araby and Ayna, provide a nice feature, the virtual keyboard. How thoughtful for us who suck at typing in Arabic. Really thoughtful and extremely nice feature, till you use it!
I mean come on guys! using… Continue reading
we have to admit, local search engines around the middle east are not (for the time being) a threat to Google and if you look closely since they started popping up till now, it looks like they’ll never be.
I am gonna slice n’ dice (kind of) Ayna and Araby
Landing page:
Ayna
One important tool I can NEVER live without in the process of UX designing is the pen. It does come to “if you had to choose one tool for UX to work with for the rest of your life” the answer would be a pen.
Things got a bit better for me (and anyone who uses bookmarks for his books, who wants to tag a certain paragraph…)… Continue reading
Nick Fink creating a draft wireframe of a project he’s working on. He uses Omigraffle (after playing around with Visio et al Omnigraffle puts the rest to shame!) VERY beautiful to watch (the geek in me)… Continue reading
I stumbled upon an article by Keith Lang a few weeks ago that really sums up to a certainextent what UX designers go through when proposing a design.
Most business owners/stakeholders (at least the ones I’ve worked with) have these “pre-defined” ideas and nothing on this planet can change their mind (not even the reports coming… Continue reading
I had to take a forced break (hosting problems with Godaddy), decided it was not worth the hassle and went for Media Temple. I can’t say anything except it is the smoothest and easiest ride ever and ten times faster than oldDaddy.
Anyways, I went for a minimal theme, my coding skills aren’t top notch but it’s working, didn’t go for a “traditional” layout and who said Continue reading