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Friday 11 October 2013

Design Tools and Techniques

Today is an emerging design practice that involves different non-designers in various co-design activities throughout the design process. By non-designers we refer to potential users, other external stakeholders and/or people on the development team who are from disciplines other than design such as those in marketing, engineering, sales, etc
More recently and with inspiration from neighboring traditions mainly within interaction design of providing potential future users with inspirational probing kits that may produce inspirational material for the professional designer.


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Design for Reliability:

All reliability professionals are familiar with the terms Weibull Analysis and/or Life Data Analysis. In fact, for many, these analysis techniques have become almost synonymous with reliability and achieving high reliability. The reality, though, is that although life data analysis is an important piece of the pie, performing just this type of analysis is not enough to achieve reliable products. Rather, there are a variety of activities involved in an effective reliability program and in arriving at reliable products. Achieving the organization’s reliability goals requires strategic vision, proper planning, sufficient organizational resource allocation and the integration and institutionalization of reliability practices into development projects. Design for Reliability, however, is more specific than these general ideas. It is actually a process. Specifically, DFR describes the entire set of tools that support product and process design (typically from early in the concept stage all the way through to product obsolescence) to ensure that customer expectations for reliability are fully met throughout the life of the product with low overall life-cycle costs.

Why is Design for Reliability important:

Why should a company commit resources for deploying a DFR process? The answer to this question is quite simple... warranty costs and customer satisfaction. Field failures are very costly. One case in point is the recently publicized Xbox issue, which has cost Microsoft more than a billion dollars in warranties (aside from loss of business and market share). Clearly, in order to be profitable, an organization’s products must be reliable, and reliable products require a formal reliability process. Three important statements summarize the best practice reliability philosophy of successful companies:

1) Reliability must be designed into products and processes using the best available science-based methods.
2) Knowing how to calculate reliability is important, but knowing how to achieve reliability is equally, if not more, important.
3) Reliability practices must begin early in the design process and must be well integrated into the overall product development cycle.

Distinction between Reliability and Quality:

First, let us start with some basic clarifications. Traditional quality control assures that the product will work after assembly and as designed. Whereas reliability provides the probability that an item will perform its intended function for a designated period of time without failure under specified conditions. In other words, reliability looks at how long the product will work as designed, which is a very different objective than that of traditional quality control. Therefore, different tools and models apply to reliability that do not necessarily apply to quality and vice versa.

Monday 7 October 2013

Web design and development tools

When working on designing and developing the website, you may need specific tools and resources. The necessary tools that can be used for designing and developing the websites are wide in the modern world of web technology. All these efficient tools will give you the chance to upgrade your website to fully customize one at reasonable cost. With the help of right tools any website can attain any heights.  Freeware and open sources are offering free web design and development tools which help to make a quite efficient website both in usability and functionality.

In common a website can be classified into several categories from client end coding, use of database technology  and server end coding  to intricacies of designing and developing aweb page. There are a lot of free development tools available in the online market specially designed for the web developers for the ease of their work. The functions of these tools are depending on diversified needs of developers. Some of the popular tools are CSS, Dreamweaver, HTML, and JavaScript are the browser extensions to create accessibility of your website.

Websitedesign and development tools actually refer to the activities and process that are linked with the devolvement of different sites for individuals or business.  There are plenty of tools that can give you great success related to the developing the website such as utilization of database technology, server side coding, server coding, and combination of both. These tools are available either for online use or offline for installation of operating systems providing you enough options. These tools facilitate you to design a website without writing a single code and spending too much time.  Following are the most popular tools:
·         Photoshop: it is also known as Adobe Photoshop. It is a powerful tool which enables designers to create web page layouts and flawless editing of images. 


·         Dreamweaver:  Dreamweaver is a popular software development platform to be used as a versatile application. It enables the user to create, edit, maintain, and integrate various aspects of web design and development through CSS, HTML, PHP, or even JAVA. 
·         Illustrator: it is another popular tool that enables website developers to create and edit graphics and images quite smoothly.

·         Joomla: it is the most popular and convenient option due to simplicity and versatility. It is an open source software tool which is widely used to develop a website with complex features. It is the necessary tool which allows Developers to manage all the images, videos, and texts easily due to amazing features and user-friendliness.

·         Flash: flash allows the designer and developer to use changeable animation for building website.
·         Image optimizer: this tool helps designer and developers to compress, resize, or even optimize an image which helps them to convert one image type to another.  

·         Media cleaner: it helps to stream video in very little time for getting the highest possible quality.
At the end, the internet business and affiliate marketing is booming and providing opportunity for designer and developer.  The process of building website has undergone a variety of advancement. The web design and development tools can be used to create more efficient and user-friendly websites.