Zoho CRM User Experience & Interaction Design Blog

Sometimes when I get some free time, I do UI make-up for fun. Today when I was searching for Shanky’s desknumber in Zoho People, I thot why not try a make-up for Zoho People. The result? Take a look below.

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The design may contain non-zoho elements like Textures on top, and most importantly, the font - ARIAL. I use Arial a lot, my personal favorite. Unlike Verdana, arial takes up less space on the screen and helps me to pack more text into a given space.

The design shows my view of how the “Self-Service” page in current Zoho people could be updated. No drastic changes. Just adding some whitespace, and BOXing the information. Also I used categorization of the left side links. Zoho CRM’s upcoming SETUP contains this style of categorization and during evaluation with some clients, it scored good reviews. The top right green shows - Where in the world is the employee right now?. Suppose if a company has multiple offices, then the attendance system can be hooked to Zoho People and whenever an employee signs in for that day, the status could be shown as shown.

- Rajesh

Intel X25-E :

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-x25-e-ssd,2158-9.html
Intel’s latest SSD is a right and promise-sounding device that could boost performance of Cloud applications in coming years. Right now, Cloud servers rely on hi-speed server Hard disk’s to serve the intensive R/W requests. Tom’s Hardware’s recent review about Intel’s X25-E SSD brings a lot of hope that very soon  SSDs will find a niche place in Application and web servers. Thus leading to two server categories in the future : Hi-performance servers Vs Standard servers, using SSD and Hard disks respectively. Since SSDs can deliver a 10X performance boost than traditional HDDs,we can expect Cloud computing, Data mining apps , Reporting tools and time-intensive web applications can overcome the ‘delay’ / ‘time-consumed’ factor.

As of now, SSDs are completely a luxury and a lifestyle element. Intel’s entry into server focused SSD will push other manufacturers to introduce hi-performance disks as well. Over the time, the price and capacity of SSDs will reach a level where they are affordable enough to replace the hard disks and that is when, cloud applications will become much more faster.

- Rajesh Sundaram