Slides from my talk at UX Sofia 2011. The main topic was how I switched from designing for web to designing software. And how in this transition i was insipred by the Metro UI

2. About Me BEFORE: interaction designer, netage.bg WebSolutions team NOW: interaction designer, telerik TeamPulse team

3. The Technology BEFORE: HTML/CSS/jQuery, PHP NOW: SilverLight, XAML, C#

5. The Process BEFORE: Waterfall (mostly) NOW: Agile SCRUM (mostly)

6. The Environment BEFORE: Open source fanatics NOW: Microsoft evangelists

7. Wp7 screeshot

8. Metro UI

14. Clean, Light, Open and Fast Celebrate Typography Content, Not Chrome Authentically Digital Alive in Motion

15. Clean, Light, Open and Fast

21. Content, Not Chrome

22. Data ink ratio

33. Before: 260px After: 124px

34. Celebrate Typography

35. Structure with Grids

39. Confident use of negative space

41. Proportion and pacing

43. Fierce reduction

46. Authentically Digital

53. Universal Iconography

56. Objectivity through Imagery

60. Alive in Motion

62. Celebrate Typography Content, Not Chrome Authentically Digital Clean, Light, Open and Fast Alive in Motion

63. Be honest Make beautiful stuff Focus on content