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Saurabh Singh6 min read

The Remote Control Is the Hard Part

Television has no cursor. Why TV apps start with a navigation graph rather than a mockup, and what focus models, ten-foot layout, playback and certification actually demand.

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UI/UX

Boost User Experience: Conduct a UX Audit for Your Website or App

How to run a UX audit on a website or app: set objectives, gather analytics and user feedback, evaluate usability and accessibility, then prioritise what to fix.

Saurabh Singh4 min read

UI/UX

Design Revolution: The Evolution of Tools Transforming Creativity

From CAD and desktop publishing to vector graphics, cloud collaboration and AI — how design tooling changed, and what that means for teams building products now.

Saurabh Singh5 min read

UI/UX

Designing for Every Screen: The Magic of Responsive Web Design

The principles behind responsive web design — fluid grids, flexible media and breakpoints — and the practices that keep a layout working at every screen size.

Saurabh Singh4 min read

UI/UX

From Sketch to Success: The Role of Prototyping in Product Development

Why prototyping is the cheapest place to be wrong: how early models surface risk, speed up decisions and cut rework before production code is written.

Saurabh Singh2 min read

UI/UX

Riding the Wave: Unveiling the Latest Trends in Web Design

Dark mode, considered minimalism, immersive media, microinteractions and sustainable design — five shifts that changed how web interfaces get built.

Saurabh Singh2 min read

UI/UX

Designing for Delight: The Power of User-Centered Design

User-centered design in practice: research, iteration and testing against real user behaviour rather than assumptions — and why it changes what gets built.

Saurabh Singh2 min read

Development

Navigating the App Jungle: Mobile App Development Best Practices

Mobile app development best practices: clear objectives, platform design guidelines, performance, security, testing, and iterating on real user feedback.

Saurabh Singh3 min read

Insights

Client Satisfaction: The CharPixel Way

The quality checks we run between a brief and a delivered product, and how they sit inside the seven phases of a CharPixel engagement.

Nabeel Arshad2 min read

Insights

New Workplace: The CharPixel Gestalt

Why CharPixel measures what gets delivered rather than hours logged, and how that shapes the way the team is organised.

Nabeel Arshad1 min read

Insights

Time & Cost Estimate: A Dilemma!

Why we will not quote a fixed time and cost from a feature list alone, and what we ask for instead before putting a number on a project.

Nabeel Arshad2 min read

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