Capgemini: Launch of Rapid Design and Visualization Lab

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, announced today the launch of a Rapid Design and Visualization Lab (RDV), a first-of-its-kind center that can help companies cut software development costs by up to 50 percent.

Built with the expertise of technologists and behaviorists, the RDV Lab was unveiled in Chicago following a 12-month beta period during which four clients used the lab to do ERP application development. The RDV Lab continues to expand Capgemini’s work in the field of simulation by using a methodology that combines the latest simulation and communication tools with new research on how people create complex software.

Capgemini added the RDV Lab, after two years of experience in this field, to continue to help companies apply simulation to software development. Capgemini estimates that 60 percent of such programs – including ERP, Web 2.0 and SOA initiatives – need to be re-worked following misunderstandings between project managers who write the specifications, and the engineers who build the programs. The RDV is designed to help all parties get the software right the first time.

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Sizing with em

Many developers and designers use px to style their font size. Px is a absolute unit to style font size and its very easy sizing with pixels but it's not a good practice. To make any website more accessible and scalable, sizing with em is a good idea.

Recently i found a very easy way of sizing with em at http://riddle.pl/emcalc/

Structured Innovative Technique- Try Your Luck!

Have you ever heard about

• mobile wooden magazine
• inexpensive aquatic apparatus
• nutritious invisible book

Looks to be innovative products right...:)
Yes structured innovative technique is good way to start with any innovation.
Making a perfect business plan out of it is a different story but it definitely gives you some possible direction to your way of thinking.

So ready to innovate...
Try this idea generator

Innovation getting smaller lightweight batteries

Day by day electronic gadgets get smaller and smaller, they need smaller and smaller batteries.
Now scientists say they have make a tiny one from paper. Can you imagine this?
Read the full article

Bapu we love you...

India the world's largest democracy celebrating its 60th independence day!

Its a land with 5000 year old history where a civilization united by its diversities.

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Come together Let’s celebrate the spirit and essence of freedom with our national anthem.

Nokia design centre in India

Nokia, the world leader in mobile communications, has chosen India as the location for the first in a series of satellite design studios it plans to establish in design hot spots around the world, signaling the increasing impact the country is having on the development of mobile phones.

Established via a two year partnership with the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore, it will give Nokia designers and India's talented young designers the opportunity to work together on new design ideas for India and the global markets.

Full Story: Nokia opens design centre in Bangalore, India

CSS I am Loving it...

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used to separate all page elements such as fonts, color and layout from the content. A web page is more easily accessible when its content is separated from the layout. I think all websites should be developed by using CSS2.

Check out the reasons to do so..

• It gives a consistent look and feel through out the website
• It creates very neat and clean code so it becomes very easy to validate
• More accessible
• Very easy to change the look and feel of the entire website
• CSS based designs displays very well on mobile devices
• Page size reduced by 25-30%
• Much better rendering speed as compared to table based designs
• Separating content from the layout is recommended by Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) so its very important to make website standard compliant by using CSS2
• CSS Designs are more google friendly :)

Resources:
Tools for accessibility:

W3C HTML Validator
http://validator.w3.org/

CSS Validator
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Why web products or services fail?

There are so many web products appear everyday in the market but why most of them fail? Why is it so?

Here are the many of the basic reasons researchers have found for such failures.

1. Lack of importance to sketching in the development cycle
   
2. Poor or lack of usability research
   
3. No Innovative concept
   
4. Targeted users not aligned with the product benefits
   
5. Product features and benefits are below the expectation level
   
6. Pricing policy not realistic
   
7. Product with lots of features but not usable
   
8. Too much time required to explore the product
   
9. Lack of usability testing
   
10. Products perform below the expectation level
    
11. Too little marketing support
    
12. Ignoring changing market demands
    
13. Lack of branding
    
14. Marketing efforts focus more on product than their customer needs