WHEN: Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 6 to 8 pm
COST: Free
HOSTS: WunderLand and the Chicago Interactive Design and Development Meetup Group
LOCATION: Downtown Chicago (address is on RSVP page)
RSVP HERE
The best designers seem to consistently turn abstract ideas into brilliant products. However, most modern products must be built by software teams before they can begin their lives of brilliance. So how do you ensure the integrity of your design after the development team gets its?
The common solution is to train your development team over a number of years or rely on “deep integration” (lots of checkpoints and oversight along the way). Neither are good solutions since they take a lot of time away from what you do best, design.
Wouldn’t it be easier if the developers could just flawlessly implement the design you gave them? This CAN happen!
SPEAKER:
Michael Walkden is a product designer, expert technologist, user experience guru and skilled leader of teams. He’s helping reinvent Relocation and Onboarding Software by being the primary customer advocate and technology chief at UrbanBound. He is a practitioner of Agile software development and Lean Start-up.
For most of his career he has been building products, leading teams (some small some very large) and delivering quality software to market quickly. Michael spent his untanned youth in South Florida. Forgoing the beach and boating to spend significant hours taking apart hardware, hacking code and being a Maker long before it was an obvious option to make a career out of doing so. He was developing software professionally before the Internet was a household name and has been a leader organizations ranging in size from start-ups to behemoths like IBM and Philips Electronics.
He holds a Master’s degree in parallel and distributed computing from Northwestern University as well as a Bachelors in Computer Engineering from Northwestern University.
When not involved with technology Michael can be found kid-wrangling (his own), practicing Aikido, brewing beer, or taking his 1976 VW bus camping.