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Andy Little

Designing Your Applications For A Global Audience – The Lessons of a Lifetime

Building applications for the enterprise is a complex task, there are many factors to consider. Building for a global enterprise and/or international audience of users is even harder. It takes a lot of planning and design to get it right. This is not a technical deep-dive session. It will present the international best practices and design considerations that many developers [and organizations] miss. Ultimately, this means the finished application is of limited value outside the USA. The remediation costs to address this technical debt can far exceed the initial development costs.

About Andy
Andy Little has been advising global enterprises his entire career on product development and technical strategies. He is passionate about the customer and product experience and has spoken on many related topics in speaking engagements. He is the founder of Perception Bridge, a consulting and advisory company, leveraging this experience and sharing best practices with many companies worldwide (including Xojo, via Geoff Perlman).

Prior to Perception Bridge, Andy held senior executive positions at McGraw-Hill Education (Chief Product Officer), Wolters Kluwer (Chief Technology Officer) and Gartner (Vice President, Strategic Technology Group).

Andy has designed applications worldwide, including re-visioning key Gartner methodologies; Magic Quadrant, Hype Cycle and IT Market Clock. He has designed CODiE award winning technology platforms and brought to market many innovative solutions still used today across the globe.

An interesting fact/hobby/interest that others may not know about you.
I designed the application that builds and displays the Gartner Magic Quadrant

Favorite TV show, band, and/or movie?
X-Files/Any James Bond Movie

If you could survive on only one food or meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Lamb Madras Curry