INDIANAPOLIS - TelAve -- Andromeda Galactic Founder and CTO Martine Dowden will be speaking online with the Southwest Valley .NET User Group on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022. She will be presenting, Moving Beyond Pretty: Making deliberate design choices, where she discusses principles of design and ties this into building software, including user experience and accessibility.

An award-winning CTO, UX/UI designer and developer, international speaker, and author, Martine focuses on web interfaces that are beautiful, functional, and accessible. She approaches user experience from both art and science perspectives, drawing from her degrees in psychology and visual communications. She has worked as a developer, artist, educator, and consultant since 2005. In recognition of her work in the community, she was awarded and still maintains Google Developer Expert (GDE) status and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). In 2015, she published a children's book, Programming Languages ABC++, of which the workbook edition sold over 20,000 copies in 2016. She then went on to write Approachable Accessibility: Planning for Success, which was released in June 2019, and Architecting CSS: The Programmer's Guide to Effective Stylesheets in 2020. Currently, she is the CTO at Andromeda Galactic Solutions where she continues to learn, work on, and share her passion for front end development.

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To learn more about the event, click here: https://www.meetup.com/sevdnug/

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About Southwest Valley .NET User Group (SEVDNUG)
Southwest Valley .NET User Group was established in December 2007 as a hub for .NET developers in Chandler, Gilbert, Tempe, and surrounding areas in Arizona who want to learn and share knowledge about .NET technologies. Join them on the 4th Thursday of each month at 6pm at Gangplank Chandler.

About Andromeda Galactic Solutions
Founded in 2015, Andromeda Galactic Solutions has a mission to facilitate connections between people in an ethical, accessible way, using technology when necessary. The company was created to address community issues through a unique combination of technology and services, believing that sustainable companies should generate net social gain with every product and service offered. You may learn more about Andromeda on their website, AndromedaGalactic.com.