Vishal Juneja
Usability, XHTML, CSS, Photoshop...
About Me
As User Interface Designer, I have been in the industry for nearly 6 years now. Started my journey in 2001 as a Web Designer with Hughes Software Systems (now Aricent). During this journey of 6 years my professional experience took many learning folds and I moved up in the ladder from designing animated web banners to designing user Interfaces for web applications. Today I specialize in understanding user requirements, and converting them into XHTML, CSS based pages.
During the journey, another key learning fold has been, a transition from structuring layouts in table based HTML to writing semantic table-less XHTML following web standards.
CSS has been the other major learning curve, which was initially used just for typography. Now it works as the backbone of any web layout, and separates out the presentation from structure.
Besides working on XHTML and CSS aspect of User Interface, my area of work also includes:
- Gathering user requirements through user and stakeholder interviews and surveys
- Creating Task Flows, wire-frames, and visual design
- Using iterative approach, to solve design issues, and involving user at all key steps of design phase
- Performing usability test at an early and advance stages of prototype building
Awards and Recognition
CIO Award - 2001 - Award of Achievement
Team Award - 2002 at Hughes Software Systems - For creating Hughes's intranet "Anthra", the most accessed and exciting channel of information at HSS
RMSI Creative Genius Award - For creating a corporate film within flat 48 hours, right from clicking the first shot to editing the film
RMSI Gold Star 2005 Award - For consistent and excellent performance
About Site
This site is portrayal of my ideas and thoughts on what a website should be for anybody who wants his/her online presence. For me, it’s a door to freedom, freedom to express my views, display my creativity and just be myself.
I created my first site back in May 2005, a single page site, which was bascially HTML version of my CV, thats when I was introduced to tableless layouts. Previous version was again a single page site, but that was more of a design need, which was basically insipired by newspaper layout.
A bit technical about the site
Site is created with tableless Transistional XHTML, with CSS as the presentation backbone.
Typography-
Page Headings: Font-Family {Lucida Sans}, Size {1.2em}, Color{#000}
Section Headings: Font-Family {Lucida Sans}, Size {1.2em}, Color{#000}
Navigation: Font-Family {Lucida Sans}, Size {1.45em}, Color{#fff}
Content: Font-Family{Verdana}, Size{.8em}
