Ten User Experience Best Practices for Windows Phone Application Development

  • Corrina Black | Microsoft; Windows Phone Team

Windows Phone applications that compel download and repetitive use, are those with great user experiences. User experiences that connect with consumers. User experiences that embrace the Metro design language and feel a cohesive part of the overall Windows Phone application ecosystem. Come learn about ten user experience best practices to enhance your application experiences and compel download and repetitive use.

Agenda:
6:00 PM – Arrive, mingle, get food
6:30 PM – Presentation
7:30 PM – Mingle, Q&A, etc.
8:00 PM – Event ends

We will have presentations on the second Thursday of every month.

Last Month’s Event: Optimizing and Testing your Windows Phone Mango apps

In Nov, we had Stefan Wick (a Principal Test Manager on the Windows Phone team) come and share key tips about the Mango development platform & tools – making your app more robust, avoiding common mistakes, and optimizing your app’s performance.

Speaker Details

Corrina Black is a Sr. User Experience Design Lead in the Windows Phone Design Studio. She leads the developer engagement efforts, and as part of the Studio leadership, she defines strategic programs to help developers around the world build high quality applications for the phone that leverage best practices in user experience and design. Corrina has been a product designer at Microsoft for more than 10 years and has contributed to the definition of the developer experience for platforms including Silverlight, Windows Phone, Windows 8, and XBOX. You can follow her on Twitter.

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