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Humanize

These thoughts triggered from a meeting I attended and I started thinking about usability vs adoptability. These times of technology providing innumerable services and products which have eased our daily lives has been and is being further improved for better and better usability. Today tech products are a part and requirement of the generation. Lots has been talked about and invested into innovation for this generation by marketers and researchers. Lets take the web and mobile media which are as big inventions as the electric bulb. With all the engineering, design and research behind, it remains 'conformed'. They follow templates and constraints directed by technology to the extent of giving style guides and standards for even Look & Feel. Now that’s boring, especially when we are addressing this generation. This generation I believe is rational and honest and above all, have choices. Therefore giving a ‘my space’ page which is no different from the newspaper is technology...