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Meta Refresh 2013 is a single-track event over two days. All proposals will be evaluated by the program committee consisting of:
- Sunit Singh, design at Cleartrip
- Angad Kingra, design at Zomato
- Rahul Gonsalves, design at Pixelogue
- Kiran Jonnalagadda, design and code at HasGeek
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Rajesh Shah
@satyagrahi
Beyond 'Responsive Design' - 'Contextual Design'
Submitted Dec 15, 2012
Section:
Patterns
Technical level:
Intermediate
Session type:
Discussion
To go beyond responsive design into contextual design - taking context from different dimensions, including user info and user use.
Outline
Responsive design is about screen size and device characteristics. These get fixed at start and most of the time do not change (how many people change their browser screen size during session).
We need to go beyond and provide contextual design:
- gps info
- user profile (if credentials are provided)
- user behaviour (what they click on).
This means design has to extend beyond initial display and layout. We need to continuously think of design as interacting with the user. We need to design the interaction as requested data is displayed.
At the Peer Water Exchange, our audience is tech savvy researchers, funders (investors), managers (often tech illiterate), and field staff (mono-lingual and tech illiterate), and the public. We have been struggling with UI for 7 years and are now creating processes, paths, and layouts for all users. We want to allow switching of roles. We have no choice but to go beyond responsive into context-driven design.
Speaker bio
http://peerwater.org/home_page/team
The Peer Water Exchange is a social entrepreneurship project that requires changes across the philanthropic value chain: from the funding (foundations and donors) to intermediaries, to the grantee (implementers) and to the beneficiaries. Rajesh conceived PWX in 2003 to address the problem of scale: how to deliver tens of thousands of small rural projects and verify their impact?
The technology and the people issues are both challenging and fascinating for him.
His has been a management consultant to companies and non-profits on using internet and e-commerce technologies to change culture, operating models, and market strategies. His early career spanned 10 years at Bell Laboratories. After receiving his MBA, Rajesh became a management consultant at CSC Index and also had stints in three start-ups.
Extremely interested in sustainability and technology, Rajesh teaches and writes on various issues facing our society.
Rajesh did his undergraduate studies in engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Lafayette College, and received an MS and MBA from the University of California.
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