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Polar Mobile 156
Front Str Suite 610, Toronto
Social design is a practice for thinking about software
experiences as “multiplayer games” (as opposed to “single player games”). Real
world and online experiences can be improved with software when they are
personalized for you and your friends are with you wherever you are – and it’s
becoming easier for us to bring our identities & friends with us to every
online or real world experience. This session will cover strategies for
designing any experience as social from the ground up, by drawing from examples
on Facebook.com and apps built off the Facebook platform.
Sachin works on the platform team at Facebook Canada, focused on helping
brands and developers build people-centric products by leveraging the Facebook
Platform. Prior to joining the Canadian team, he did product marketing for Open
Graph at Facebook HQ in Palo Alto. Sachin studied Systems Design Engineering at
the University of Waterloo and is a frequent instructor on the topics of social
design and information distribution.
A Whirlwind Primer on
Microsoft’s Modern Design Language – Paul Laberge, Microsoft
You’ve seen images (or even tried) Windows 8. You’ve
seen Windows Phone unique style. You’ve experience the new XBOX dashboard. What
do these things have in common? A modern design language that defines experience
through a user-centric approach! In this primer, Microsoft will tell you exactly
what their Modern Design Language is, what it isn’t (a hint: it’s not boxes,
text and bright colours…), where it came from and where it’s going. By the end
of this talk, you’ll know what will make an amazing, modern Microsoft app
experience tick and how you can use it to further your own creative ideas.
Paul Laberge is a Technical Evangelist with Microsoft Canada, focusing on
helping the developer ecosystem build great apps and services on Windows Phone,
Windows 8 and Windows Azure. Paul brings a wealth of experience from both a
technical and business perspective with over 14 years of experience in product
development and marketing, management consulting and technical evangelism. As
part of his role at Microsoft, he can be seen working directly with developers
and designers building solutions for the Microsoft platform as well as speaking
at events both in-person and online. He is also passionate about great design
and can be seen talking and blogging about Metro, Microsoft’s new design
language. Paul blogs on http://w00t.ms and can be found on twitter at @plaberge.
