| What: | Building a Compelling User Experience | ||||
| Who: | Building a Compelling User Experience - Ben Galbraith | ||||
| When: | July 16, 2008 6:00 PM | ||||
| Where: | Google Office - 111 8th Ave 4th Floor New York NY 10011 - Google Maps | ||||
| Description: | Google Engineering Offices As our industry has matured, expectations for software systems have changed. In a sense, the early pioneers in our industry had it easy: Their success was in simply getting software to do something. Today, delivering a working system is often not enough to achieve success.
Instead, the system must be user-friendly, and in some situations, its interface must be compelling and provide a "wow" factor. How exactly can developers create a compelling user experience? What other elements are involved in ensuring that users have an enjoyable experience? Can aspects of this end result be distilled to a repeatable process? Are there objective principles against which a system can be measured, or is an innate aesthetic sense required? Join Ben Galbraith in this session as he addresses this topic, drawing on the work of industry experts in interface and interaction design as well as his own experience in building user interfaces for more than 10 years. He gives examples in the context of both web and desktop applications and will spend a time discussing specific techniques for creating beautiful user interfaces using Java Swing and Ajax.
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