Presentations from this years PDC are now available to watch and download for future viewing.
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PRS223: Getting Users to Fall in Love with Your Software: 2005 Edition
Speaker: Hillel Cooperman
Back by popular demand, learn how to make some of the most difficult tradeoffs in designing a software user experience including power vs. simplicity, excitement vs. familiarity, and putting the users in control vs. making things just “happen” on their behalf. The decisions about how to make a great experience that users not only like, but love, are almost never black and white. In this updated presentation not only do we re-cover some of the basics, but we have quite a bit of new material that shows how the principles apply to a real full blown WinFX application that you can not only see but download and use as well. Even those who saw the talk at PDC 2003 will benefit from the new content and hands on example of an application that applies the principles in the talk.