First Three An Event Apart Workshops of 2014 Posted
An Event Apart is proud to announce our first three workshops of 2014: Mobile Design Now, led by Luke Wroblewski, at An Event Apart Atlanta on February 19, and An Event Apart Boston on April 30; and Designing For Touch, led by Josh Clark, at An Event Apart Seattle on April 2, 2014.
Mobile Design Now
An Event Apart Atlanta: February 19, 2014 An Event Apart Boston: April 30, 2014
“Mobile Design Now” will not only illuminate the mobile opportunity, it will provide practical advice on how to take advantage of it. You'll learn to:
- Avoid desktop tendencies that result in poor mobile experiences
- Design for how people actually use mobile devices
- Work with native and web design conventions
- Optimize designs for small screens
- Take advantage of mobile capabilities
- Start from the mobile experience and extend outward
Session leader Luke Wroblewski is a master designer and teacher, and a leading figure in web and multi-device design. This all-new workshop delivers the most important information designers need to get the mobile experience right—and does it with Luke's patented mix of entertaining examples and analysis, plus data you can bring back to the boss.
Designing For Touch
An Event Apart Seattle: April 2, 2014
“Designing For Touch” takes a heads-down, practical, actionable approach to touchscreen—with working guidelines, rich examples, illuminating exercises, and a busload of new rules that bust the “settled” conventions of the desktop. You'll learn:
- Layout and sizing guidelines for touchscreens on phones and tablets… and desktop, too.
- Emerging gesture conventions and design patterns for both apps and web
- How to make gestures discoverable by educating users with contextual cues
- Techniques for making touch interactions fast and efficient
- How to cope with the reduced real estate left in the wake of giant touch targets
- When the best touch UI is no touch at all; how to use sensors to speed or replace touch input
- Opportunities to push frontiers with entirely new interactions through touch
Josh Clark works on the cutting edge of touchscreen design, and is a gifted and entertaining instructor. He'll show you how to create usable and delightful screen experiences for today's devices and tomorrow's.
Both daylong workshops follow the two-day conference. You can attend just the workshop, just the conference, or save $100 when you purchase a ticket for all three days.