Sharad,

Its true that there are lot of issues (mostly design and usability
related)regarding all the applications in NID whether its the
KMC/Resource Center application for browsing and searching KMC
resources, intranet, NID email or even the NID website.

But the problem is more at the implementation level (or rather i
will say at the administration level). There have been many student
projects on KMC search interface, intranet etc, though i dont know
about Alumni registration interface. But none of the designs have
been implemented yet. Infact no interest has been shown from the
administrative side.

We have SUID and New media students on campus and we all know that
there are a lot of issues with all these interfaces but we cant do
much about it except for starting our own implementations (something
that is happening now).

One way out of this will be to pressurize the administration esp the
IT dept on improving the interfaces and the alumni can play a major
role here.

regards
mayank



--- In designindia@..., "Sharad Solanki"
<Sharad.Solanki@s...> wrote:
> Siddharth,
>
> The interface of the register application is pathetically designed
(sorry for such strong comments) but its irony that so many SUID,
New Media people gets out of Institute and they could never see very
small usability problems like:
>
> - The search is case sensitive - like u will never get me
if u search for 'sharad' as my name is registered as 'Sharad'. I
won't comment that why a user needs to select checkbox when he has
already typed in the text field.
>
> - The login button doesn't have affordance of button
>
> - Changing navigation on top which increases the
cognitive load.
>
> - The menu item is center aligned leaving aside the text
being center align.
>
> - ..... I can go on and on
>
> - ...... Neither would I comment on the NID site itself.
I think looking at models like RCA, CMU site could give better
introspect to the implementers about how to design institute site
should be.
>
> I had sent comment to the webmaster long time back but this seems
to be one of those unimportant things in life.
>
> Let's hope someday somebody could take a note of it and fix it.
>
>
>
> Sharad
>
>
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: siddharth Dash [mailto:siddharth_dash@y...]
> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 1:29 PM
> To: designindia@...
> Subject: Re: [designindia] Fw: Alumni registration at NID online
directory
>
>
>
> Hi all
>
> I have tried several times (not less than three times)
> to register myself. Till date I have not received any
> confirmation in my mail ID.
>
> I suppose NID site has a better engine to handle such
> registrations (at least better than irctc).
>
> Can someone help me (persons responsible at NID should
> respond specifically) to register. What's going wrong?
>
> Let's talk about design for 'usability' right here.
>
> Siddharth Dash
> AEP Product Design 1992
> Mumbai
>
>
> --- Manish Joshi <manish@j...> wrote:
> > Hi all
> > I am forwarding a mail from NID requesting the
> > alumni to register
> > themselves at the NID website
> >
> > Forwarded message attached-
> > ***********************************
> > Hi!
> >
> > This is webmaster from NID. As you have registered
> > on to graduate
> > directory
> >
> (<http://www.nid.edu/graduates>www.nid.edu/graduates),
> > kindly ask
> > your NID graduate friends to register and update
> > their profiles. So far
> > 1060 students have been graduated from NID but only
> > 150 of them registered
> > and updated their profiles. Therefore, I request
> > you to spread this
> > message among your NID graduate friends to update
> > their profiles as early
> > as possible.
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Regards
> > webmaster
> >
>
>
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