Raj Lal

Nokia Inc.

  • Mountain View CA

Digital Product Leader, Designer, Developer, Author, Technology Evangelist

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Biography

Raj Lal is an internationally recognized digital product leader who has designed and contributed to software used by millions of people. Raj is the author of four popular books (Windows Gadget, Web Widget, Smartphone web development & Fun with Silverlight) in addition to many articles about web, digital product design and strategy. He is also a consistently top-rated speaker at conferences and companies around the world. With over a decade of experience in software industry, Raj enjoys taking an objective approach to developing applications and makes extra effort to simplify complex topics. He has a master’s degree in Computer Science and holds MCSD & MCAD titles. He lives in Mountain View, California

His presentations can be found at Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/rajeshlal/presentations
and Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/user2529827

Industry Expertise

Computer Software
Internet
Design

Areas of Expertise

Accessibility
Html5
Mobile

Accomplishments

Patent: Creating a User Interface for a Touchscreen Digital Photoframe

2011-07-25

A digital picture frame has a frame bounding a touch screen that presents a user interface having first and second arcs of selector elements. The first are of selector elements is manipulable to establish an input genre root, and the second arc is manipulable to select an input branching from a genre root selected using an element in the first group. http://www.slideshare.net/rajeshlal/two-thumbs-user-interface

Design Patent: Honeycomb Design

2011-06-20

http://www.slideshare.net/rajeshlal/honeycomb-user-interface-design

Code Project MVP

2008-01-04

How do you feel to be among the chosen 40 in a four million membered developer community codeproject.com ? In one word, elated. Having your name beside legends like Michael Dunn, Christian Graus, Nishant Sivakumar, Colin Angus Mackay, Marc Clifton, DavidCrow and others is an honour for a life time.

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Education

Lamar University

MS

Computer Science

2008

Nagpur University

Bachelors

Computer Science

2000

Affiliations

  • W3C
  • CodeProject
  • MSDN
  • ACM

Event Appearances

Accessible Design with HTML5

HTML5DevConf.com  San Francisco

2012-05-21

Developing Apps for Nokia Windows Phone

VSLive Conference   New York

2012-05-15

Upgrade Your Website to HTML5

VSLive Conference   New York

2012-05-15

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Sample Talks

Developing Accessible Apps and Website for Mobile devices

Accessibility on Mobile devices

What Accessibility means in a Mobile device and how to develop your app and web pages to make it more accessible on mobile devices. Learn how to create an interface which supports people with disabilities, and know why its a good business decision. An accessible application gives maximum reach to your information, functionality and benefits. The four major disabilities that effect user capabilities are visual, hearing, mobility (difficulty in using the mouse), a

Style

Availability

  • Keynote
  • Moderator
  • Panelist
  • Workshop Leader
  • Host/MC
  • Author Appearance
  • Corporate Training

Fees

$0 to $50001*Will consider certain engagements for no fee