We will network from 6:00pm to 6:30 pm and start the presentation at 6:30pm. The meeting will be at New Horizons located at:
601 Beacon Pkwy W
Birmingham, AL 35209-3121

Presenter: Billy Hollis

Creating User Experiences: Fundamental Concepts for Developer
Tablets, touch, and cloud are turning the industry upside down today, and user expectations are rising rapidly. Modern UI technology stacks such as XAML and HTML5 can meet those expectations, but only if developers learn a lot more about what makes user experience work, including fundamental principles of design and new techniques for prototyping. Billy Hollis will get you started in this session, presenting basic design principles that are important to user experience: use of whitespace, Hick’s Law, Fitt’s Law, gestalt principles, and many more. He’ll also talk about specific design issues for touch user interfaces, and finally he’ll suggest some ways to do more effective prototyping. You can see the results of a project done in 2008 by Billy’s team at http://bit.ly/qCUwjD 
 

Billy Hollis has been developing software for over thirty years, and still does hands-on development through his consulting firm in Nashville, Tennessee. He has written several technology books and speaks at industry conferences all over the world, including TechEd, PDC, Visual Studio Live, the Patterns and Practices Architect Summit, the Norwegian Developer Conference, DevConnections, and many more. He focuses on user experience, and does training in both XAML technologies and general UX/UI design principles and concepts. He is a Microsoft MVP and Regional Director, and was named a Software Legend by Microsoft in 2002.