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Don Levan, President of Vanguard Custom Software, presented two sessions at the 2011 Filemaker Developer's Conference. Below you will find a description of each of those sessions and links to download the handouts, slides, and sample files.
The Fundamentals of Exceptional Interface Design: The Design Process
Successful user interfaces solve the right problem, are easy to learn, and are efficient to use. Last year in this session, I focused on how to design an interface to be easy to learn and efficient to use. This session will focus on how to identify and solve the right problem and will provide a repeatable design process you can use whether you are implementing a new feature, designing a user interface, or planning an entire new application.
If this sounds interesting to you, you should consider attending our Design Studio
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Designing Great Data Entry Forms
Most people hate having to do data entry because most data entry forms are designed to meet the needs of the organization collecting the data - not the person entering the data. In this presentation, I shared strategies to optimize the design of data entry forms, improve the user experience and efficiency, and decrease data entry errors.
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Don also presented two sessions at the 2010 Filemaker Developer's Conference. Below you will find a description of each of those sessions and links to download the handouts, slides, and sample files.
The Fundamentals of Exceptional Interface Design: Key Principles
Successful user interfaces are those that are easy to learn and efficient to use. Meetings these goals requires that you understand the people who will use your software. This presentation provided current information about interface and interaction design best practices, our shared human psychology and abilities, and the ways to leverage FileMaker's tools to create exceptional user interfaces.
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Small Things | Loosely Joined:
(Lessons Learned to Improve Quality, Reuse Code, and Program Efficiently)
Humans are ill-equiped to model complex worlds, data structures, and processes in memory (as we must do everyday while we are programming). Fortunately for us, several generations of hackers and computer scientists have developed practices to improve software quality, increase code reuse, and improve programmer efficiency. In this session, we reviewed the most relevant of those practices and the way those ideas can be applied to improve our programming in FileMaker Pro.