Zigron has grown tremendously over the last two years and during this time we have tried our level best to keep our website up-to-date. Keeping the iterative approach in combination with “market driven design” philosophy,we are now launching Zigron’s new website and brand identity.
Zigron has used its successful approach of “Simple , Beautiful and Usable” methodology to design and develop our new website which will cater to a wider range of our ever growing client base and industry verticals.
I will truly appreciate your feedback or suggestions for our new site.
The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) is the membership association for the technology community in Northern Virginia. NVTC has about 1100 member companies representing more than 200,000 employees and Zigron is its memeber.
“I absolutely love the idea of DareMyCompany”, says Jennifer Van Grove here on Mashable. She wrote a detailed review of the web app Zigron lately developed after the success of PingMyCompany.
DareMyCompany is a simple tool that lets companies find other companies for different sports and other challenges/competitions. It’s one of it’s kind and has been developed by keeping in mind the importance of entertainment for working people.
Currently the challenges on the site fall under sports category only, but the criteria will be expanded with a lot more locations, and some new features laters.
If you’re also tired of working and or want to show other companies in your area that you’re best at something, just give them a call at DareMyCopmany and prove yourself!
This is the best time to visit Pakistan for tourists, reason being the cool weather and well developed public places. To make the best use of this time, Zigron had planned a Bar-B-Que event in Rawal Lake View Park, on December 25th, 2008. The park is the back side of Rawal Lake that is one of the big artificial water reservoirs [covering an area of about 8.8km] in Pakistan.
Being a public holiday, it was a busiest day at the spot with so many people round, and it was good to see such big crowd there, which has previously been seen only in the metropolitan city Karachi. Other than crowd, the much noticeable thing was Lake View itself, all water and water, and then the delicious Bar-B-Que. How much people enjoyed there, can’t be expressed in words, but definitely in pictures below:
This post will be serving as a live broadcast for our Usability Event which is going to be held tomorrow Tuesday, December 2, 2008. So, please, bookmark it for the live updates. It’ll be great, but a lot depends on the wifi availability there.
A detailed overview of the event will be a part of our post event activity, and live updates will help us gather more and more public opinions. Bloggers/web analysts/user experience gurus/usability geeks are welcomed to blog about it on their blogs and or write us their views.
Feedback will be highly appreciated, so stay tuned!
Whether it’s consumer electronics, desktop software or a web application, usability comes first, i.e. the ease with which the user will use that product. The evolving technologies, geographical differences etc though cause a little variation, but standards are almost same everywhere. Usability itself is a standard, and any new, or enhanced product must follow the usability guidelines.
Being a product developer, why should you care about Usability is a single question with hundreds of answers, some known and many hidden. Discussion is the only way to explore all those, and so Zigron Inc. and CDF Software arranged a seminar on Usability in collaboration with NUST Islamabad. Seminar will be held on Tuesday, December 2, 2008 from 5 pm to 8 pm (PST) at NUST Sector H-12, Islamabad Campus.
The seminar will be a sort of discussion on current Usability practices round the world, the difference and similarities, the best and the successful, and the emerging trends. Another interesting part of the seminar will include a documentary on design Helvetica. Panelists of the seminar are people from different software houses of Islamabad and NUST, i.e. Babar Khan (ikonami), Faizan Buzdar (Scrybe), Haris Khan (Zigron), Osama Hashmi (CDF Software), Murad Akhter (Tintash) and Dr. Khalid Latif (NUST).
The purpose of seminar is to discuss the Usability standards with specific reference to modern technologies, to make better use of it within our domains and to create awareness among future entrepreneurs.
Few days back we had arranged a group competition to save the eggs when they are throw from the roof top in a box. Six different teams were made and each team was given around 1.45 hours and a very small budget to make these boxes. Goal was to safe eggs by adopting creative design concepts.
I am proud to announce that all eggs were saved which shows Zigron team is quite talented . The competition resulted in a tie as all designs were equally creative thus everyone was declared as winner.
After the successful launch of PingMyCompany, Zigron decided to develop a more interactive site where employees of different companies can have real fun. It’s DareMyCompany, whereby one company can dare others to compete in anything. For instance, lately a team of MOHAA players from Zigron had a match with MediaLinkers.
It’s not only about daring companies locally, instead you can dare an overseas company, for instance for design and development contests. So be as innovative as you can to dare companies in the areas where no one has ever dared them.
Each company when registered will have a Dare Profile with all their stats. There’s a ladder also for company’s position, and it gets updated as any two companies have a contest, and post their result.
Soon we will publish the exact rules for using the ladder and how positions are calculated. Till then please enjoy the site and start challenging other firms.
Absentee, absentee and absentee… from Zigron’s grand trip or any outdoor activity, even completely out from blogging, it was WhereverTV team habitual of absence. This was the limit and the notice was taken by blog administrator and Haris so here is the inside story of Dream theater.
What kept us away for so many things, is the question that every mind might have noticed on every event. Obviously, everybody knew that we’re not there as we’ve been working but so what!!! Others were also working, and might be working more hard, but still they spared time to do the fun part as well, that we couldn’t. Deadlines, late sittings and immediate requirements is a common thing for IT, but innovations have always been out of the way and so was the case with WhereverTV. What was behind the scene that made us so busy, goes here:
WhereverTV website is a complete portal with all the features implemented so far, standardized and implemented. From secure Paypal & credit card shopping to User Role management in Salesforce, so many integrations like YouTube, TimeZone, java mail all are working perfectly. And above all, the system is logging the events comprehensively, i.e. any activity(I really mean any activity any user performs), scheduling efficiently the events at background and exporting capabilities like to excel and pdf. The presence of webservices definitely shows the strength enough to expose the system to be accessed by wherevertv devices.
Now coming to WhereverTV device, believe me its like Pandora box and it was dared by Mark Cavicchia and Kashif Mueen that they did not only opened this box but also decided to fix, enhance and mould it to their own requirements. From UI development to protocols implementation, it was like waking a sleeping giant. Codecs implementation and then webservices integration are the tasks which seem small but ask WET embedded team how much effort they have put it. (You want to know what this device looks like, click here )
The purpose of exposing these features is not to impress you people by any means, instead to let people know about the reason for WhereverTV team to be absent from trips, outdoors and even from blogging. Go to this link, and imagine that from February to August, we were busy in making this dream happen. And when the release was about to go live, for more than two month, our development rooms were always occupied by developers. So on behalf of WET Team, Please excuse us for all the absentees, unavailibilities and non-participating.
WhereverTV has moved from Beta to Gamma but the game is still on……… Yet so many features, enhancements and upgradings are in the way. Wait and see , how far we can take this ride for you…… But one thing is for sure that we’ll be with you on Zigron blog from now onwards.
Till next blog, adios
Thanks to Zahid Zaman and Adeel Arshad for supporting me to compose this message!
