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Meeting the Challenge of Simplicity

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Summary

This session addresses abstract notion of simplicity, looks at why it is critical in modern UI design and answers questions: Why does simplicity matter? Is there a meaningful definition of simplicity? Why do design processes and good intentions undermine simplicity? What processes and techniques can software developers use to achieve simplicity?

Bio

Giles has twenty years experience at Euro RSCG Circle, British Aerospace and Institute of Physics Publishing and is founder of cxpartners, a user-centred design consultancy for clients such as Nokia, eBay and Microsoft. Giles was President of the UK Usability Professionals Association and he edited PAS 78, the British Standards Institute's Web accessibility guidance.

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QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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May 15, 2009

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  • This video is absolutely unwatchable

    by james peckham,

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    not because the speaker is bad but because the moronic camera man didn't record the slide deck. What in God's name were you thinking?

  • Re: This video is absolutely unwatchable

    by Diana Baciu,

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    Hello James,

    The slides appear below the video and they are synchronized with the actual video.

    Diana

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