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Mar 9, 2011What Software Development Can Learn from Filmmakingby editor

Justin GarrityAs filmmaking has matured over the last 100 years, it has established certain methodologies that could lend themselves to modern day application development. From scripts to storyboards to animatics to editing, each stage of filmmaking is moving the production forward while simultaneously revising and adjusting to unforeseen challenges, including with the original concept. In this session, Justin will walk through how a team could use the techniques of filmmaking to create great software.

Justin co-founded the WebVisionary Awards, hosted workshops on paper-prototyping, and is a contributor on a number of blogs including justingarrity.com, blogs.webtrends.com, and afterthoughtsignage.com.

Mar 18, 2009Paper Prototyping: Put Down The Computer and Collaborate!by editor

Justin Garrity

Justin Garrity is the new User Experience director at WebTrends. His mandate is to focus on user centered design, refined data visualization, and narrative context driven workflow. In his workshop on “Paper Prototyping,” Justin reveals the secrets of testing product interfaces—before writing code—which allows for easy and inexpensive modification to existing designs. All you need is paper, pens, scissors and your imagination. In a financial climate where frugality is a virtue, Justin’s principles for inexpensive user testing make it hard to say “no” to user centered design.