(img src – taken by me – Shotang Demo Day) There are two slightly controversial topics that I hold dear to me, when I think of PM-ing. (1) Stake holder management – internal and external. I have written about this extensively in the past. Some folks think that it is a project/program managers job. But…
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Mobile Jewellery Shop – Lalithaa
Disclaimer: Most of what I talk about below – are my observations from Southern parts of India, and might not be applicable to Northern parts, which I am not very familiar with. Lalithaa Jewellery seems to have introduced a mobile jewellery shop in the form of a modified long chassis bus. I think this is…
Map trace by mobile
I have been thinking about this for a while. And yes, this is one of my dream product posts – there might be hints of technology possibility inside, but no means an algorithm. I will spell out a couple of use cases first. Use case1: I hail an uber from home. The pickup location is…
The Supermarket experience
Ever since the online grocery guys came into the picture (read as bigbasket in our home), one recurrent topic at my place has been – “would we miss the supermarket experience?” Some common points that would typically come up were: It was a nice once a month outing that we may probably miss out on….
IoT in the Kitchen?
This idea just struck me today evening. This is in close heels to the IoT usage with the gas cylinder post that I had done a few weeks ago. Problem to be solved: Get an accurate state of groceries that is stocked in the kitchen and potentially order them (online?). This is a very common…
UX review of Instamojo website – part 2
Creating a payment link (continued) After you have dragged and dropped the digital goods, it would be nice if you could say that, upload would happen later. Since I did not see any upload status scroll, I assumed, but in perfect design, nothing should be left for assumption. When uploading a preview image, can you…
UX review of Instamojo website – part 1
I recently tried signing up with Instamojo and gave it a spin. Instamojo is a pretty cool payment related startup. Their moto is to democratize payments. It should be dead easy for anyone to be able to sell (start a business) and be able to set up a payment mechanism for customers. Instamojo would do…
Tech Enabled Restaurant Experience
There are two segments to this post. First is a fictitious sequence of events in a tech enabled restaurant, that I would like to see. The second is my take on how there exists bits and pieces of this experience, but not quite the entire flow yet. We walk into a restaurant. Greeted by the…
Personalized Hotel Rooms ?
There were serviced apartments that started popping up in cities like Bangalore a few years back. These were good alternatives to expensive full service hotels. A lot of frequent IT travelers liked these service apartments, because they were really good quality rooms, and they were inexpensive because they were no-frills. No service. Mostly no restaurants…
Hyperlocal for daily milk?
The current proliferation of Hyperlocal is awesome. I love it because of at least 2 reasons: I get stuff from my local area – a lot of times I am used to getting stuff from nearby where I live. These goods may or may not be available elsewhere. I get it from the local grocers…