About
RAKESH AGRAWAL
I am Senior Director of Product at Audible.
I have been designing and marketing Internet services since 1993. I have worked at Tellme, AOL Search, uReach Technologies, washingtonpost.com and startribune.com.
On Twitter
- Talking to a company that averages 5 seconds to a live human. If you can do that, you have my loyalty for a long ti… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 8 hours ago
- What is your favorite screenshot OCR / annotation tool. Tried @AdMakerae ... seems like it would do the trick, but dies instantly. 8 hours ago
- RT @hunterwalk: Giving a Shit is surprisingly often a competitive advantage 8 hours ago
- Then you are a real ass for stealing someone’s iPad. Just drop it in the mail, no questions asked. Maybe Apple stor… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 9 hours ago
- Benefits of EMR: complete histories, tests available to doctors immediately. Downside of EMR: groupthink. 10 hours ago
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Recent Posts
- Let’s not call Goldman Sachs evil (yet, and for this potential infraction)
- 5 things Andrew Yang must do for the next debate
- My personal environmental footprint
- FAANG + Microsoft market matrix
- Thoughts on this week’s suicides and how you can help
- Autonomous vehicles are going to affect a lot of jobs
- How technology chips away at jobs
- How to turn on the innovation light bulb
- Autonomous vehicles are going to change the world in more ways than you know
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Category Archives: usability
Thoughts on love, hate and Twitter, blogging
If you’ve been following me on Twitter or reading this blog, you’ll undoubtedly have noticed that I frequently use words like “sucks,” “shitty,” “terrible” and “horrid.” I also frequently use words like “brilliant,” “genius,” “amazing” and “great.” So, you may … Continue reading
iPhone design pet peeve #2: moving app icons
The App Store is one of the key strengths of the iPhone. You can easily find, purchase and install applications that increase the utility of the iPhone. Steve Jobs claims that more than 100 million downloads have occurred in the … Continue reading
Posted in apple, iphone, rocky's iphone pet peeves, ui, usability, wireless, wireless data
iPhone design pet peeve #1: address book access
I’ve had the 3G iPhone for a couple of months now. During that time I’ve had the same complaints that most others have had: virtually nonexistent 3G coverage, anemic battery life and frequent crashes. But there are also details of … Continue reading
Posted in apple, iphone, rocky's iphone pet peeves, ui, usability, wireless, wireless data
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Picking the wrong default path
I’ve been using my Garmin eTrex Vista Cx GPS for six months. I use it when hiking and to geotag pictures. I noticed that I haven’t been getting the advertised accuracy level; the accuracy has ranged from 25 to 150 … Continue reading
Posted in consumer electronics, geotagging, gps, product management, ui, usability
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How not to design an ATM
I’ve written before about problems with the UI on ATMs, such as repeatedly asking what language you want and having you enter cents for withdrawals when no ATM I know of dispenses pennies. I ran across another problem the other … Continue reading
Starting cars for dummies
You turn the key and the engine goes vroom. That’s how you start a car. In the more than 10 years since I started driving, there have been a lot of change in cars. I’ve seen the addition of safety … Continue reading
Posted in fun, random, usability
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