We’re very lucky to have folks from 3 of Brighton’s finest mobile development firms giving talks on designing for mobile.

James Morse of Matchbox Mobile – Designing for Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7 introduces some new ideas and opportunities for designers. We will explore how Windows Phone 7 differs from other mobile platforms, and share our experiences and prototyping techniques in creating designs that fit this new platform and its clearly-defined design paradigm.

James has been designing for a wide range of disciplines for over 15 years.

Early in his career he began to focus on user interface and user experience design in the emerging PDA and smartphone markets. His work for clients such as Microsoft, Tesco, Motorola and Verizon put him at the forefront of small-screen user experience design. His designs have been seen and enjoyed by tens of thousands of professionals and consumers, including early adopters of the USA’s first Windows Mobile smartphone.

As Creative Director at Matchbox Mobile he continues to be driven to develop, adopt and improve best practices for handheld device user experiences, and his growing portfolio of work testifies to his unique experience and industry-leading skills in creating designs that bring out the best in every platform.

You can follow James on Twitter at @parlando

Robert Douglas of Ribot – Designing for multiple platforms

Rob will talk about designing across, and for, multiple touchscreen platforms using Ribot’s recent suite of Tesco apps as a case study. How do different form factors, operating systems, and interaction paradigms inform the design of real I-want-to-use-it-every-day apps? How do you take the constraints (and opportunities) of differing mobile devices and design interfaces that, for the user, feel like they belong on the device and as part of their life?

Robert Douglas is a UX designer that loves nothing more than prototyping and getting something real into peoples’ hands. He’s fairly new to mobile, coming from a web background where he most recently lead the Design & UX team at Rightmove. Since joining Ribot a year ago however, he’s worked on projects for Intel, Tesco and a number of other partners.

He’s interested in the future of mobile web/apps and how, as these devices pervade our society, we ensure they’re engaging, useful and usable.

You can follow Rob on Twitter at @anucreative

Trevor May and Tom Hume of Future Platforms – Launching on devices that don’t exist

You can follow Trevor on Twitter at @antikewl and Tom at @twhume