Desktop Development with Billy Hollis
Is desktop development still relevant? Billy Hollis says yes! Carl and Richard talk to Billy about his work building desktop apps, primarily with XAML. Billy talks about how desktop development has evolved even though a lot of folks have steered clear of it for years, doing all development with web clients. What is better with a traditional desktop client? The conversation also swings to how users interact with software, how developers learn, and how we could all stand to take a step back, decrease our rate of interruption, and focus more!
Guests:
Billy Hollis
Billy Hollis is an internationally known UX design generalist, software architect, and team leader. He has also authored or co-authored over a dozen books. He’s a long-time speaker at major tech conferences, with over 400 sessions on software development, IT practices, and UX design. He leads a team of world-class multi-platform developers at Next Version Systems, where the team creates and implements trailblazing UX designs for companies from Fortune 100 down to medium-sized technology companies. Billy has also done video courses for Pluralsight and LinkedIn Learning. His latest course on LinkedIn is on how to interview software developers.
Links:
- Mondays is back! https://mondays.pwop.com
- The Design of Everyday Things https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/840.The_Design_of_Everyday_Things
- Curious https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22047408-curious
- This is Pointless https://twitter.com/thisispointless?lang=cs
- Evil by Design https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17081913-evil-by-design