Check out Travis Isaac’s presention “Keynote Kung-Fu: How Ninjas Wireframe” from Big Design Dallas 2010. Keynote Kung-Fu: How to wireframe like a ninja View more presentations from Travis Isaacs.
Big Design Dallas 2010: Windows 7 Mobile Overview
May 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Check out Chris Koenig’s presentation from Big Design Dallas 2010 on Windowns 7 Mobile Overview. Windows Phone 7 Developer Overview View more presentations from Chris Koenig.
Big Design Dallas 2010: Under the Kimono (by Russ Unger)
May 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Check out Russ Unger’s presentation “Under the Kimono” from Big Design Dallas 2010. Opening the Kimono – Big (D)esign Conference, Dallas, TX, May 29, 2010 View more presentations from Russ Unger.
Big Design Conference Live on U-Stream (Day 1)
May 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Big Design Day 1: Social Trackhttp://www.ustream.tv/channel/big-design-social-track Big Design Day 1: Design Trackhttp://www.ustream.tv/channel/big-design-design-track Big Design Day 1: Code Trackhttp://www.ustream.tv/channel/big-design-code-track
Speaker Spotlight: Jared Bienz (Windows 7: A Design and Development Intro)
May 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Jared Bienz is an ISV Architect Advisor with Microsoft, which means he helps companies who write software understand and leverage Microsoft technologies. Jared has been a professional in the software industry since 1995. He’s worked on a wide range of technologies including IP Telephony, Mobile, Web, Composite and Rich Clients. He’s particularly interested in client and UX technologies like WCF, WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone. Session Talk: Windows Phone 7: A Design and Development Introduction In this session you’ll learn key design guidelines as well as how to build an application for Microsoft Windows Phone 7 due out later this [...]
Speaker Spotlight: Travis Isaacs (Keynote Kung-Fu: How Ninjas Wireframe)
May 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Travis Isaacs is a Principal Consultant at Improving Enterprises in Dallas, Texas. You will always find Travis designing and building consumer application. Travis is very active in the local UX community with speaking, blogging, and other activities. When he’s not designing or developing, Travis enjoys spending time with his wife and 2 daughters. You can find more information about Travis at his professional site (http://travisisaacs.com).
Speaker Spotlight: Caleb Jenkins (10 Practices Every Developer Should Do Now)
May 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Caleb Jenkins is a long time DFW community leader and former Microsoft Developer Evangelist Caleb is well known for his engaging speaking style, depth of knowledge and creative energy. As a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, Certified Trainer and .Net Architect Caleb has helped to design and implement enterprise .Net solutions for some of the largest companies in the world; Six Flags, Countrywide Mortgage, American Airlines, CGI-AMS, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group and Sunoco Inc.You may also recognize Caleb from his previous work with Improving Enterprises, or from his work as an active national speaker for the International .NET Association (INETA), a [...]
Session Talk: Design Studios (How to Sketch User Experiences)
May 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Sketching user experiences has been around for a long time. Some design crafts actually use clay to form the basis of a later sculpture, so clay becomes the sketch for the final design. Sketching user experiences has taken a central role with the publication of Back of the Napkin and Sketching User Experiences. Session Talk: Design Studios (How to Sketch User Experiences) In this talk, Brian Sullivan will explain how to perform a Design Studio session as a Facilitator. Ryan Plesko will explain how to participate in a design studio session as a Sketcher. Both roles are extremely important because [...]
Getting Ready for a Big Week
May 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
We’re getting ready for Big Design. Are you? Dave Curlee, Keith Anderson, and I performed a site visit at SMU to do an audio-visual check. Dave and I checked out the swank workshop room. It is going to knock your socks off! During this visit, Keith Anderson helped to determine the setup of the Trade Show and registration. We took a breaks later to discuss logistics, timing, sound checks, twitter feeds, and other boring conference planning stuff. We hoisted a cold brew, proud of our ingenuity. Brian Sullivan and Dave Curlee discuss A/V at SMU
Speaker Spotlight: Chris Bernard (John Hughes: Lessons in Big Design)
May 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Chris Bernard is a user experience evangelist for Microsoft, whose passion is working with the software design, development and business domains to communicate Microsoft’s position on the importance of user experience in software design. Chris likes to focus mostly on motion graphic and interactive design but these days he find himself usually working on transactional Web-based applications and design specification artifacts. As a design professional, Chris’s mission is to apply the principles of contextual research, cultural, human, physical and social factors to the products, services and systems that he develops. Chris is passionate about linking the value of design to [...]
