.NET & UI NYSIA (New York Software and Industry Association) UI & Usability SIG 13 August 2003 NYSIA UI/Usability SIG Wednesday, 13 August 2003 6-8pm Torys LLP, 466 Lexington Ave (Park Atrium Building across from Odd Job) between 45th & 46th Street - 20th Floor, Conference Room B Directions: 4, 5, 6, to Grand Central (42nd Street) Price: FREE to NYSIA members, $20 nonmembers; PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED Register: NYSIA.org .NET is a compelling technology from Microsoft with significant promise. However, little has been published about its impact on the user interface, from a designer's, developer's, or user's perspective. This panel event will bring together speakers with experience in the medium to present about the technology and take open questions from the audience. Bring your business cards! Infragistics has generously donated one seat/subscription to NetAdvantage 2003 Volume 2 for a raffle. NetAdvantage is an entire framework of presentation layer components for COM, .NET & ASP.NET. Speakers Matthew Degel, .NET Solutions Architect, Microsoft: .NET UI Overview & Applications Brad McCabe, Senior Technology Evangelist, Infragistics: Delivering Rich-Client Features with Thin-Client Delivery Moderator Scott Weiss, Principal, Usable Products Company Bios Matthew Degel, Microsoft Matthew Degel is a .NET architect designing .NET solutions for major multi-national firms based out of the New York metropolitan area. Matthew's 9 year career at Microsoft has been focused on the design, development and implementation of enterprise solutions leveraging distributed systems. Matthew has worked as an engineer on the Visual Basic team and as a consultant to the Windows for Smart Cards product group. Prior to joining Microsoft, Matthew was a Vice President at Citicorp, where he served in various capacities including financial controller, distributed application design and development, and management of a UNIX compatibility lab supporting Citibank's trading floors. Brad McCabe, Infragistics Mr. McCabe has worked as a Senior Developer/Architect, and his current responsibilities at Infragistics include developing reference applications such as Infragistics' highly regarded "Expense Application" and working with enterprise customers on project implementation. Prior to joining Infragistics, Brad served as Systems Architect and Consultant for the network solutions development team at Verizon Communications. Concurrently, Brad held the position of Lead .Net Evangelist within Ajilon Consulting, responsible for content and delivery of material for the national Inside .NET tour. His primary interests include presentation layer development, Microsoft's Tablet PC development environment for designing ink-enabled, pen-enabled applications and overall Microsoft networking technologies. Topic Details Brad McCabe, Infragistics Delivering Rich-Client Features with Thin-Client Delivery: This discussion focuses on meeting today's IT challenges, using thin client or browser based delivery to maximize ROI while still delivering the rich client features user expect and demand. The discussion will look at the Infragistics Expense reference application as a real world example of some of the power and advance feature that are possible with ASP.NET and third party controls. We will discuss the challenges of delivering a robust interface utilizing HTML and explore some working code to evaluate solutions. NYSIA UI/Usability SIG Wednesday, 13 August 2003 6-8pm Torys LLP, 466 Lexington Ave (Park Atrium Building across from Odd Job) between 45th & 46th Street - 20th Floor, Conference Room B Directions: 4, 5, 6, to Grand Central (42nd Street) Price: FREE to NYSIA members, $20 nonmembers; PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED Register: NYSIA.org Scott Weiss Principal, Usable Products Company: usableproducts.com (212.929.8599) Author, "Handheld Usability": handheldusability.info