iPad 3(s) on their way

A few of us got emails that our shipments for iPad3 are on their way. Darn it, I am eager to see which of our apps look the ugliest on Retina Display. Get ready for “Hall of the lame” if your interfaces are not data driven and you cannot change the assets in a few [...]

Nokia Microsoft Tango – Trending sessions @ tringapps!

Way to go Tringers!! Lets take pride in our “Trending Sessions” and have more of them every month. Our predictions were spot on Nokia strategy to rebound from the gallows. Indeed Mind melting does work. What excited me the most was our trainees coming up with insightful predictions and being spot on. As for Nokia, [...]

M&E Companies – taking the risk (Digital First)

Lets call it the “Digital First” strategy as one of my friends in a major media company loves to call it! Most M&E companies now view their digital evolution as critical to meeting consumer demand in a mult-device (next gen. devices) connected world. In this new world, these M&E companies are quickly learning that their [...]

Could not resist! Got to share this one with Tringers!

There’s a great story about Pablo Picasso. Some guy told Picasso he’d pay him to draw a picture on a napkin. Picasso whipped out a pen and banged out a sketch, handed it to the guy, and said, “One million dollars, please.” “A million dollars?” the guy exclaimed. “That only took you thirty seconds!” “Yes,” [...]

Flynn – Twitter on steroids (gets you high)!

Today Flynn has been approved by Apple for release to App store on Sept. 1, 2009. Another success story from Tringers. Well done team. Soon, we will kick start the Palm OS version as well. So lets talk a bit about Flynn before I explain what I meant by “Twitter on Steroids”. Flynn is an iPhone [...]

The Product Manager’s Job

A Product manager is required to oversee all aspects of product/service line (this may vary from company to company) to deliver superior customer experience. Product Manager is also responsible for providing long term value to the company thru product or product portfolio that he/she is responsible for. Lets get to business and look into product [...]

Product Managers – Tweet a feature!

Product management is one of the most important functions in a Product Development team. Product managers are tasked with inventing/discovering product features (with all kinds of research imperatives), evangelizing them to stakeholders and then marrying the product life cycle to these internal and external factors, thereby living and breathing a product roadmap. Now, there is [...]

UI for a Mobile App – thoughts?

So, Tringers … like always let me throw out some questions at you all. This time it is about UI. The questions are: What is a good user interface for a mobile phone (lets say smart phones) and why? How would you define an expressive User Interface? Let me share the UI mockups of one [...]

Sergey Brin (Google Cofounder) is panicking @ funny!

This was too cool (or should I say hot) story for me to ignore.  I thought it might be a good read guys .. so here it goes as written by Chris Thomson of Reuters. Your nonstory of the day has got to be rumors that Google (GOOG) cofounder Sergey Brin is panicking at the [...]

Thinking Device Apps!

Sometime back I read a book from John Maeda. It was called “Laws of Simplicity”. I will talk about the book some other time but today I thought I will initiate a discussion to gather what all engineers out there have to say about “Laws of Simplicity”. Once I get all the comments, I will [...]