Like to learn more about your presenter scheduled to give a presentation on our Dec 4th meetup, then read this interview on BDN:

http://bdn.borland.co...

I would like to thank Ray in advance for making time in his busy schedule to come out and talk to us.

Here is info about the session on UI Design that he will be giving:

Effective User Interface Design

As programmers, we all know the importance of an application's user interface, but all too often the user interface gets the least amount of attention. Most programmers would rather work on the behind-the-scenes programming bits. To some extent this is understandable, as many developers equate user interface design with graphics design and the creation of pretty icons and images. When asked to justify their application's UI, they typically respond with, "but, I'm not good at graphics.". What's really scary are the UIs created by developers that do enjoy creating (or downloading) pretty icons and images!

The point of this session is to emphasize that user interface design is not the same as graphics design and more importantly needs the attention of all developers. Throughout this session a set of user interface guidelines will be presented that apply to virtually any type of application: desktop, web, mobile, etc. In addition, specific attention will be given to user interface design traps that developers often encounter, and how to avoid them.


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Ray Konopka
Raize Software, Inc.
www.raize.com