[Sigia-l] NYC: .NET & UI 13 Aug 03

[Scott Weiss]

.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