Prototyping Windows Phone Applications

Current Event: Prototyping Windows Phone Applications

Prototypes are invaluable tools in the application development life cycle. They allow feature and functionality exploration and testing prior to implementation; saving time and money, and helping to ensure that the user experience is top notch. Learn how Expression Blend, the Windows Phone toolkit, and Expression Design can be used to create well designed and fully functional prototypes for feedback and user testing purposes

Speaker bio: 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.

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

Please use the attached meeting invitations (open and accept them so we get attendee count). Note that “online only” is for those of you who can’t join us in building 99.

We will have presentations on the second Thursday of every month.
See XAPfest Events page for details about upcoming and past events.

Device Loaner Pool

We have lots of Windows Phone devices in our loaner pool and we make these available to XAPfesters who need access to them. Have questions? See XAPfest Device Loaner Program page for details.
Need a device? Contact XAPfest-Devices to check-out a device for your testing purposes.

Please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions,
XAPfest staff

About XAPfest!

XAPfest! is monthly event that brings together internal developers who are interested in creating apps for WP7. Event attendees can borrow devices on which to test their apps as well as meet & learn from each other. FTEs can join XAPfest here and can remove themselves from XAPfest here. Vendors (v-dash holders) can use these links to sign-up or leave.

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.

Date:
Speakers:
Corrina Black
Affiliation:
Microsoft; Windows Phone Team
    • Portrait of Corrina Black

      Corrina Black

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      Jeff Running

Series: Microsoft Research Talks