Seems like a really positive movement in our tech crowd, recently ‘The Interaction Design Center’ organized ‘World Usability Day’ at the UMT campus here in Lahore. When i heard about the event i was a bit surprised as i never expected “A World Usability day” here in Pakistan, but really happy to know that it did.

I reached the event at around 10:20, expected start time was 10am but it started a little late so i was technically not a late comer. There was a tremendous energy and excitement in the people who organized it and the people who came to attended it. Imran hussain started off the event with a welcome note and Adnan was the official host and i guess the brains behind the event. Google sponsored the event along with a live international video link with the creator of Google MapMaker (Lalit Ktaragadda at Google India), quite interesting and well prepared presentation. The biggest turn off was the speech by the Dr. Tanvir Iqbal from UET lahore, seemed like he wasn’t prepared or was not well guided on what the actual event was about.

I couldn’t hang around to attend the complete event so i skipped off during the tea break as i had a bunch of tickets to resolve and work to look after but over all i really appreciate the effort, it a positive movement and i hope in future we get to see and attend many such tech conferences in Lahore.

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• Interaction Design Center
  
• University of Management Sciences

So it happened again, my phone rings and there is a guy on the other side who says hello and then immediately starts telling me about a huge office space available at a locality in Lahore. He did not breath or even ask who i was he just started. I told him dude i don’t need an office space and he says sir we have a full fledged floor and can also arrange an office space at other localities…. i asked him we have an office and we don’t need office space but he insists and asks me if i can give him a number of any other person who is responsible for such decisions at my company. For moment i thought is it an official call … did i give my business card at some place ..  who am i … so i asked him “Can you tell me where did you call” and the answer was with a silence “ZONG … ” and i told him “No this is not Zong and i don’t work at ZONG and where did you get my number” and he says i got it from a website …

So it happened again, this is the sixth time i got a call on my cell phone where people inquire about ZONG a cell phone company launched in Pakistan twice the calls were for a job in Zong and twice for some sales for ZONG and why it happened. Well people search on Google for zong china mobile Pakistan and i happen to be the person who wrote an article on Zong on my blog… so while searching people land on my website where i have published an article on Zong along with the URL of the company but instead people just scan my website and on footer find my cell phone number and without any thought or looking around my site they give me call …. who is at fault! Me or lack of common sense … ZONG should sponsor this blog or else i should start making deals on there behalf :P. Anyhow keeping this in view i had to remove the number cause there were added no of calls coming in, recently i was also being invited for a meting for some marketing manager of some ABC company as well.