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Feature Presentation
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Design Essentials for Developers
with
RJ Owen,
Lead Experience Planner and Senior Software Architect
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Michael Salamon, Team Lead, User Experience
both from
EffectiveUI
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As
a developer in the User Experience field, it’s important to
understand some design basics in order to communicate
effectively with designers, as well as give sound
suggestions for UX improvements on the applications you
design for. While many of us have an intuitive feel for what
works and what doesn’t, developing a vocabulary to describe
your issues and suggestions and understanding the techniques
required to validate your hunches are the skills that will
define the next generation of the best developers.
This session will go in-depth on which design
techniques and principles ought to be part of every
developer’s vernacular. We’ll discuss the right toolsets
developers should have so that when they do run into
roadblocks, they are comfortable with either solving them on
their own or suggesting realistic solutions, saving time for
everyone involved.
We’ll share real-world examples of how we are
implementing this process among our own teams, and will
share the challenges and success we’ve seen so far. |
By the end of
this session, you will understand the basics of both
high level interaction design and lower-level visual design
in a way that maximizes energy and time in the development
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• Basic design principles to help developers understand a
design’s intent. This includes a basic understanding of
layout, color theory, and typography.
• Design vocabulary, heuristics
and analysis techniques, so developers can give expert
analysis of their design decisions (understanding
affordances, mental modeling, mapping, etc.).
• Techniques for validating
expert analysis in the form of quick and dirty user testing
and prototyping (with paper and programmatic prototypes).
• The difference between
information architecture and interaction design, and how
both have a critical yet often unseen influence on software
architecture for developers. |
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RJ Owen
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RJ Owen is Lead Experience Planner at EffectiveUI,
focusing on customer insight work including ethnographic
research, design validation, co-creation exercises and
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research methods to gain qualitative insight into a user’s
needs and desires, and validates designs by performing user
testing. He brainstorms with clients to invent new designs,
and works with the interaction design team to actually
design the application. RJ also plans the engagement,
produces CI deliverables and presents them to clients.
RJ started his career as a software developer at
Raytheon and spent 10 years working in C++, Java, and Flex
before moving to the design research and customer insight
team at EffectiveUI. He truly loves good design and
understanding what makes people tick.
RJ holds an MBA and a bachelor’s in Physics and
Computer Science. He is a frequent speaker at industry
events such as Web 2.0, SXSW, Adobe MAX and AnDevCon. He
lives in Denver with his family, enjoys really good coffee
and often tries to read too many books at once. |
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Contact:
RJ Owen,
Blog,
Twitter |
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Michael Salamon
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Michael Salamon is team lead, user experience at
EffectiveUI, an award-winning and recognized leader in the
design and development of custom desktop, mobile and rich
Internet applications. |
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With more than 20 years’ experience, Michael’s work spans
print, Web, mobile, interactive, motion, illustration and
animation. With a thorough history in the printing industry,
Michael made the move to the Web with the rest of the
chunky-black-glasses crowd and helped define interaction
methods still used today.
His clients have ranged from huge multi-national
companies to modest one-person shops, including: Qwest,
Quark, Intuit, Cendant (CheapTickets), JCPenney, Home Depot,
Cabela’s, Dish Network, Staz, Ci-Ci’s Pizza and Northrop
Grumman. He is an adjunct professor for the College of Arts
and Media at the University of Colorado Denver. |
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Contact:
Michael Salamon,
Blog,
Twitter |
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February meeting
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Next Lab
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User Group Lab (usually
monthly on
Friday
before our Meeting, check here for updates)
Friday, February 17, 2012
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Location:
LeaderQuest,
Directions and Bing Maps
Address:
6825 South Galena St., Englewood,
CO 80112,
Phone: 303-832-4665
Volunteer to speak at a future Lab! Without
volunteer speakers, there
will be no Labs!
FMI
or for YOU to present at a future Lab, Contact
Larry
Haskin |
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Windows
Phone Development for Fun and Profit!!!
with
Crystal Long,
Microsoft MVP, Remote Training and Programming |
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Windows Phone development took leaps last fall with its
"Mango" release.
First you
will learn about new features such as storing databases with
your application and interface design techniques like using
live tiles to keep interest.
Then put on
your seatbelt!
Do you have ideas for mobile
apps? This is going to be a fast-paced lab, highlighting the
most popular topics from the Windows Phone lab series last
Fall. We will show how to create a Windows Phone app, save
to and read from Isolated Storage, make new pages, add
controls, modify properties, and write event handlers using
C#.
As time permits,
we will also demo specifying InputScope, responding to
Orientation changes, defining Application Bar and
Application Menus, and using Resources.
You will be
surprised how easy it is to develop apps for Windows Phone!
On March 3,
Crystal will be presenting this session at
MVP Nation, following the
2012 Microsoft MVP Global Summit, at the Microsoft
Conference Center in Redmond. |
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Crystal Long
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Crystal Long is a powerhouse in the community. She
teaches, collaborates on multiple projects, authors books,
creates teaching materials and videos and answers tons of
customer questions on forums among many other
things. Crystal is huge into studying and learning new
things and as a result, is well versed across many subjects. |
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She
started with an HP-25 calculator and mainframe punch cards
in the late 70s. In the 80s, she earned a degree in
Petroleum Engineering and used dBase, Knowledgeman, RBASE,
FoxPro, Clipper, FileMaker, Lotus 1-2-3, VisiCalc, before
moving onto using Access and Excel and other Office
products.
Crystal
has written hundreds (maybe thousands) of applications in
various languages; BASIC, FORTRAN, Pascal, C, VBA, C#, and
XAML. This is her 6th year as a Microsoft MVP for Access.
Crystal’s latest passion is mobile technologies for Windows
Phone 7.
If all that isn’t enough, she’s also raising two
teenage boys, and enjoys studying, art, photography,
videography, music, piano, singing, songwriting, rappelling,
camping, biking, dancing, being creative and admiring
creativity in others.
Crystal is a longtime member of the Denver Visual
Studio User Group. |
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See
written lessons for the
full Windows Phone series from our labs last fall.
See
Crystal's
free book
covering the fundamentals of Microsoft Access.
See
Crystal's
free video
tutorials
on Microsoft Access.
Contact
Crystal Long,
AccessMVP,
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Next Lab
No Registration Required for this Event
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User Group Lab (usually
monthly on
Friday
before our Meeting, check here for updates)
Friday, March 23, 2012
(previously
scheduled for January 20)
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Location:
LeaderQuest,
Directions and Bing Maps
Address:
6825 South Galena St., Englewood,
CO 80112,
Phone: 303-832-4665
Volunteer to speak at a future Lab! Without
volunteer speakers, there
will be no Labs!
FMI
or for YOU to present at a future Lab, Contact
Larry
Haskin |
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Creating
Structured Data Forms
using
Office InfoPath and Visual Studio LightSwitch
with
Carlos A
Peralta,
SharePoint - Software Engineer/Web Developer |
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Introduce yourself to two
powerful tools that you can use in your business solutions!
+ Do you need to produce a quick business solution with a
rapid easy deployment?
+ Do you need to interact and appeal to your power users
with tools they can work with on their own?
+ Do you need to use a powerful tool to quickly build
complex business solutions, but one that is easy and
bullet-proof for your power users (they will love you for
it)?
+ Do you need a great addition to your application
development toolkit?
Learn about Microsoft Office InfoPath
and Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch!
You, as a developer, have access to the complete power
of Visual Studio and you know that VS alone can accomplish
anything; but often times you need to leverage a quicker and
more user friendly product that you can leave with your user
to get that great solution complete in record time, right
out of the box. In today's business environment, where
companies are looking to save time and money, and deploy
projects quicker, InfoPath and LightSwitch offer many
options to organizations and developers.
Use your expertise to assist those power users who may
not have extensive programming or application development
skills; however, they understand their business processes.
Developers, like you, also find these tools useful because
of their friendly interface, ability to customize further,
and work with more developer level platforms such as
SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio.
Come to our lab and introduce yourself to these two
powerful tools! |
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Carlos A Peralta
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Carlos A Peralta graduated in Information Technology
from the Daniels College of Business, University of Denver,
in 2008. He has been working with Lockheed Martin ever
since. He is currently a Software Engineer/Web Developer who
has mainly focused on Microsoft's SharePoint environment and
has recently begun expanding into the mobile realm. |
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He greatly enjoys working with SharePoint, since it is such
a huge platform that offers many amazing options to improve
any business process and reduce costs. It is such a large
platform that no one can really claim to be a SharePoint
expert and much can be learned everyday from it. Carlos, for
one, not only enjoys teaching others what he learns, but he
also learns much from others.
Pushing tools such as Office and SharePoint Designer to
their limits are things that Carlos really enjoys doing and
the end result is often a dynamic custom solution that
customers greatly enjoy. |
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Contact:
Carlos A Peralta,
720-560-5554,
Facebook,
LinkedIn |
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Lab Sponsor
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In addition to our free Labs, see:
Discounted Classes -
LeaderQuest, one of only two Microsoft Certified Partner
Learning Solutions training companies in Colorado, offers discounts to members of the Denver
Visual Studio User Group for any classes taught
by their Microsoft Certified Training Instructors including
Visual Studio 2010 courses.
FMI,
Contact:
Michael Brinks |
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Career
Opportunities and Professional Networking
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Denver .Net Study Group
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Denver .Net Study Group |
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February UPDATE --
Our Denver .Net Study Group
has a new
volunteer to
lead/coordinate the study group, working with me, Chris
Wallace: George Young will be leading our study group
soon.
For our first set of topics,
we are considering
javascript/jquery and/or MVC.
Keep watching for new discussions on our study group
LinkedIn site for our future planned sessions. Please
post your suggestions, comments, questions, and most
importantly, your intent to participate in our in-person
study group sessions.
Click here!
Thanks, good luck, looking forward to hearing from you
. . . Chris
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Denver .Net Study Group
- of the
Denver Visual Studio User Group
first and third Thursdays
monthly, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Drop in anytime!
Location:
ExecuTrain of Denver,
Directions and Bing Maps
Address:
7400 E. Orchard Rd., Suite
1450 (first floor-north), Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Business Phone: 303-771-3776 (please - no study group related calls)
FMI:
click here; join
and check for updates,
LinkedIn subgroup
(see
above).
Contact
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Events
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Thu., Feb. 9, Cloud Fest Denver,
Colorado Convention Center,
FMI
& to REGISTER *
7:30
AM - 6:30 PM - full day, 30 sessions, multiple
tracks, much more.
Workshops & presentations with Microsoft Certified Trainers,
Engineers, & MVPs.
Cloud Overview & Roadmaps, SharePoint Online, Private Cloud,
Office 365,
Special Topics & Azure. For software developers, IT
administrators, information
architects & knowledge workers. *
Event Registration Fees Apply, see:
Register.
Fri., Feb.
17, Denver Visual Studio User Group Lab
(note:
user group meeting is 3rd Monday, not the usual 4th Monday,
so
lab is one week earlier also)
Windows
Phone Development for Fun and Profit!!!
with
Crystal Long
Mon.,
Feb.
20, Denver Visual Studio
User Group Meeting
(note:
user group meeting is 3rd Monday, not the usual 4th Monday)
Design
Essentials for Developers
with
RJ Owen
and Michael Salamon,
special guests from
EffectiveUI
Fri., Mar.
23, Denver Visual Studio User Group Lab (originally
scheduled for Jan. 20)
Creating
Structured Data Forms using Office InfoPath and Visual
Studio LightSwitch
with Carlos A Peralta
Mon.,
Mar.
26, Denver Visual Studio
User Group Meeting
Building
Windows 8 Metro Apps with C#
with
William
Wegerson
Fri., Apr.
20, Denver Visual Studio User Group Lab
XAML
Mammal
with
William
Wegerson
Mon.,
Apr.
23, Denver Visual Studio
User Group Meeting
TBA
(check back later)
with TBA
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Preferred
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in
July, 2011 - celebrating
8 years as our User Group's Preferred Bookstore! |
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Softpro Books - An independent computer
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"developers sharing and
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We are a professional independent user group
private volunteer membership association whose
members
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The Denver Visual Studio User Group is not operated by Microsoft.
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