Central Indiana Chapter Meeting - April 2021
Prototyping for the Future, Prototyping for Success
by Michael Miserendino,
President and Founder Gravity Drive
Prototypes help us look at what things could be and test out ideas early before costly mistakes are made. Often prototyping is a critical step to arriving at successful outcomes in nearly any form of product development. Whether you are involved in determining the requirements of a product, working on its design, or developing it there are fundamentals you should know about prototyping and how it can help you and your team increase the odds for success. In this talk we explore what are prototypes, taking a closer look at those for the user interface of digital products, and how you can easily build them and evaluate them.
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Speaker Bio:
Michael Miserendino
President, GravityDrive
Michael is a creative and passionate User Experience professional with over 25 years of experience with a human centered approach to designing and developing innovative products. His designs have won awards for their exceptional user experience. The majority of these designs have been websites, software, and mobile products. Other projects include physical products such as tabletop games, simulations, and cockpit instrumentation.
Beginning as a software engineer and user advocate, Michael was instrumental in evangelizing the User Experience approach in several companies before starting GravityDrive. He founded GravityDrive in 2008 to focus on providing user experience solutions for a variety of products and services.
Michael volunteers with several organizations, serving on the board of directors of many, often as the UX trusted advisor. He currently serves as President of the Indiana Chapter of the User Experience Professionals Association, volunteers as an industry advisor and student mentor for advanced research projects with the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) program at Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis since it was started, is a lifetime member of the FBI Indianapolis Citizens Academy Alumni Association, was a volunteer and board member with the Ropkey Armor Museum since his teens helping restore and maintain military vehicles, and is a volunteer first responder with Illiana Search & Rescue.
In his free time, Michael enjoys designing games and helping other game designers, creating artwork in various mediums including studio scale scratch-built models, working on cars, off-road driving, hiking, and hopes to get back into auto racing someday when things slow down.