Mobile Leaders Podcast Mobile Leaders Podcast from Microsoft

Josh is the Founder of Big Medium, a design agency that’s worked with many brands including eBay and Samsung. He's also written a number of books including “Designing for Touch” and Tapworthy”. Josh talks about something that is not often discussed in the enterprise - user experience and design. The best enterprise apps boost efficiency—even delight—by capitalizing on immediate context, and then encouraging nimble shifts in that context. How can you create apps that enable customers and employees to move easily among channels—from mobile to desktop, from physical to digital, from retail space to office to sales visit, and back again? Josh talks about how you can bring productivity and delight to enterprise apps, and understand the critical lessons that consumer apps can teach enterprise software.

The mobile ecosystem is fragmented with a large number of devices & operating systems that change frequently. Staying in the game and being able to innovate requires embracing these changes with a streamlined DevOps approach - streamlined for building, testing, and frequent releases. Join Roy Cornelissen from Xpirit as he discusses how he implements Mobile DevOps for his customers including the various cultural aspects of it.

In this podcast we discuss the latest mobility trends, their effects on the enterprise, and new usability experiences with Maribel Lopez. Maribel is the founder of Lopez Research, a strategy and market research firm. She's the author of the Wiley book "Right-time Experiences" and co-founder of the Mobile Research Council. She's also a contributor to Forbes.com. Maribel talks about some of the things enterprises are doing today, from connecting to multiple data sources and maximizing opportunities to creating new user experiences. She also discusses her thoughts on bots vs. apps or rather bots and apps, along with what she thinks the future holds.