This Month’s Founders Drinks is on Usability, Design, and Monetization of Mobile Apps

Last month's Founders Drinks: We talk about how founders can use social media for user acquisition

Update: Lichi Wu, director of biz dev at Chalkboard, will take Bernard’s place. Made changes to Chris Ismael’s profile. Unfortunately, Alvin Yap can’t join us for the session. But we’ll have a friend from DeNA joining us at Founders Drinks.

Mobile is huge. We all know that, and that is why we wanted this month’s Founders Drinks to focus on mobile apps — particularly on usability, design, and monetization. These are the elements (trade-offs) which start-ups going on mobile have to balance.

The topic is pretty big, so we decided to drop the start-up sharing session to allow more time to expand the panel discussion. Depending on the questions asked by our audience, the discussions will focus on the following topics:

• Mobile design and its relationship with user experience

• Mobile app design and usability across different platforms and geographical locations

• Trends in mobile (i.e Augmented reality as a feature)

• Panelists’ experience in the mobile industry

• Various ways to monetize your apps

On a related note, Stanford University has an interesting lecture video on these topics. You can watch it here.

Our Panelists

Together with our pals at e27, we have brought together thought leaders from across the mobile space to discuss these topics. They are, in alphabetical order:

• Alfred Siew, Founder of Techgoondu and UNWIRED Conference

• Alvin Yap, Founder of TMG who recently raised SGD$1 million from One97 Mobility Fund