Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design

Afshan Kirmani

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With a background in Cognitive Psychology, Afshan is a User Experience Consultant working on websites, applications and hand held devices to analyze and determine the need of users in an environment. Her studies go beyond the cognitive approaches taken by a user in a context, while using an interface. Essentially, she believes that without the understanding and interpretive knowledge of the human mind, creation and innovation fails in delivering what is essential.

Her experience spans across domains like banking, insurance, retail and e commerce, travel and transportation, media and entertainment, networking, education and gaming.

Applying her knowledge across domains, this consultant believes that it is essential to globally connect with other experts in the industry. She also contributes to lectures at the HCI meet. A speaker and an author for Boxes and Arrows and UX Matters, Afshan believes in innovation and has faith that user experience will emerge as a best practice, globally.

You can reach her at her email address which is “afshankirmani@gmail.com”.

Stories written by Afshan Kirmani

• Getting a Form's Structure Right: Designing Usable Online Em… [16 comments]

Comments made by Afshan Kirmani

• My idea stresses on how this methodology has evolved- elabor… [0 points]
• Hmmm, I agree that there are a number of books that already … [1 points]
• Robert, our discussions here are not always about online ite… [0 points]
• Ah, a true piece of inspiration. I absolutely enjoyed the wa… [2 points]
• Todd, thanks for the insight. I will be talking about error … [0 points]
• Holger, I will be talking about mandatory fields, formatting… [0 points]
• Richard, I don’t really see why you would want to break aw… [0 points]
• Jonathan, thanks for your inputs. I will be talking about a … [0 points]
• Jonathan, thanks for your inputs. I will be talking about a … [0 points]
• Anna, some banks do provide a chatting facility online durin… [0 points]
• Thanks for the fix, Nat! [0 points]
• Interesting. I wish it were in English though. ;) [0 points]
• Melissa, excellent feedback there. I'm so glad that you talk… [0 points]
• Richard, the 'concept' of an online form has been created fr… [1 points]
• Jessica, thanks for the feedback and your great inputs. :) … [0 points]
• Ripul, the pointers that you provided were apt. Accurately s… [0 points]
• Trevor, thanks! :) [0 points]
• Jessica, thanks for the link. By making a forms process as … [0 points]
• Melissa, your steps that lead to the making a forms process … [0 points]
• Kel, that sounds like the right way to do it. :) Thanks for … [0 points]
• Bo, that's the advantage that Ajax provides. There can be so… [0 points]
• Brendan, rightly put there! As usability practitioners, we s… [0 points]
• Aartjan, rightly said there! I seemed to have ignored severa… [0 points]
• As this industry of user experience is yet evolving, job res… [1 points]
• Manoj, This definitely makes sense. Thanks. [0 points]
• Sathish, thanks for sharing your thoughts. With respect to… [1 points]
• I didn't aim to focus this article on email applications alo… [0 points]
• Kinjal, I don't know where you found an association but if y… [0 points]
• Trevor, thanks for bringing up customer influence here. I be… [0 points]
• Praveen, I remember doing a research study on understanding … [1 points]
• Caroline, thank you for the reference. Your paper, “De… [0 points]
• Good to hear your point of view Kelly. [0 points]