User Interface design is the bane of my life. I have a notebook here with lots of sketches. And I draw what I think might work before I go about implementing it. And since I do not have a tablet PC I have to do this with pen and paper. It works remarkably well. One of the challenges is maximising screen real-estate. Wasting space on a cluttered screen is a real problem. What makes it worse is when I have only a small amount of additional information to show – which ironically is often harder than when I have to display a lot of data to the user…

There is a company called ‘TurnItIn’ who has a business of fighting plagarism in Universities. But thankfully not all Universities use TurnItIn… They use other ways to detect plagarsim. And in these places it is easy not to be caught… Have a look here at a list of the simple rules to ensure that your cheating is not found out. The best one is where people copy text from other places, and leave the formatting alone. Like, dont you think the Uni would notice the blue text you copied in the middle of all your black text. And the font is even different….