This Wednesday, June 4th, at 12pm eastern, I'll be the presenting on Andrew Duthie's Web Wednesday, session entitled Graphic Design for Developers.
Here's the session abstract:
Are you a developer yearning to become a dev-igner, a developer/designer hybrid?
The rise of a RIA and enabling technologies such as Silverlight, WPF, and XAML makes the “battleship gray” UIs we’re so familiar with look like the green screens of the 70’s and 80s.
The old cliché is that developers make poor designers and many developers needlessly tremble at the site of designer tools such as Expression or Photoshop.
Graphic design is a process, just like software development.
If you learn the basics, you’ll soon turn out better User Experiences and find inspiration in the world around you.
While I can’t make you a design guru overnight, I can help you make your apps look a bit less like they did when the Spice Girls were on the pop charts.
Turtlenecks and berets optional.
Andrew will post the webcast sign up information Monday, so keep an eye on his blog for details.