A Conference about building the Web
July 29, 2011 | Indianapolis, IN | Awesome
Speakers
Ethan Marcotte
The Responsive Web Designer's Workflow
There’s been a lot of great discussion about responsive web design: merging media queries and flexible, grid-based layouts to create more adaptive, universal designs. But how does a responsive approach affect our design workflow? And when is responsive design right for your project? We’ll look at sites and strategies to try and answer these questions, and learn to become more responsive designers.
Ethan Marcotte is an independent designer/developer who is passionate about beautiful design, elegant code, and the intersection of the two. Formerly an interactive design director at Happy Cog, his clientele has included New York Magazine, Stanford University, and the World Wide Web Consortium.
Ethan coined the term "responsive web design" to describe a new way of designing for the ever-changing Web and, if given the chance, will natter on excitedly about it—he even went so far as to write a book on the topic. He's a popular and experienced speaker, having been featured at An Event Apart, Future of Web Design, AIGA's In Control, and South by Southwest, and co-hosts the Handcrafted CSS seminar series with Dan Cederholm.
Ethan lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and would like to be an unstoppable robot ninja when he grows up. Beep.
Yehuda Katz
Yehuda Katz is a member of the SproutCore, Ruby on Rails and jQuery Core Teams; during the daytime, he works as Chief Technologist at Strobe. Yehuda is the co-author of the best-selling jQuery in Action, the upcoming Rails 3 in Action, and is a contributor to Ruby in Practice. He spends most of his time hacking on open source—his main projects, along with others, like Thor, Handlebars and Janus—or traveling the world doing evangelism work.
Neven Mrgan
Bit Depth
At my dayjob, I design Mac software UI/UX, websites, T-shirts, and office signage. In my spare time, I’ve designed 8-bit games. I think every creative professional would benefit from fully executing projects of different complexity, history, and purpose.
Neven Mrgan is a designer at Panic, where he works on anything from software UI to door signage. In his spare time he is one half of Big Bucket Software, whose hit game The Incident you may have played last year. He's a fan of nice people, pixel graphics, and interesting food. Neven lives in Portland and likes it very much there.
Jan Cavan
Design Roadmap
How do you make sure that in every project you are moving in the right direction? How can project success be achieved? This talk will explore the designer's work process and recommend tools that will help make you create a proper design roadmap to ensure you are taking the best route.
Jan Cavan is a designer, front end developer and illustrator whose work has been featured in various online publications, books and magazines worldwide. She is the UI Designer at SendGrid and occasionally freelances as Dawghouse Design Studio, which doubles as a design blog dedicated to offering tutorials, articles and providing inspiration to the design community.
She has always been drawing since she was little but thinking that this wasn't a practical route to take upon entering college, she took up and graduated from a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, but soon after realized that her love for art and design was her real true calling.
Faruk Ateş
Faruk Ateş does creative things on the Web, like Modernizr: an open source library that helps you take advantage of cutting-edge features in HTML5 and CSS3 today. Now the Product Designer at Apture, Faruk previously did a three year stint as a UI Engineer at Apple where he helped to bring cutting-edge web development techniques to the Online Store and MobileMe.
Faruk has written for many publications both online and in print, and speaks all around the world about web standards, best practices and designing for the Web of tomorrow.
Leah Culver
Leah Culver is the co-founder and CEO of Convore, a real-time group communication application. Leah was formerly a co-founder and the lead developer of the social network and micro-blogging website Pownce, which was acquired by Six Apart in November 2008. She has co-authored both the OAuth and OEmbed open API specifications. Leah promotes open source, APIs, and the Django web framework on her blog at leahculver.com. In her free time she likes to play around with new technology and try new restaurants near her home in San Francisco.
Brad Colbow
Mobile Design, Thinking Beyond Apple
Going from a point and click desktop interface to a mobile touch interface dramatically effects how consumers interact with applications and web sites. Much has been written recently about Apple's human interface guidelines but what do Google, HP, BlackBerry and Microsoft have to say about designing for their mobile operating systems?
Brad Colbow is the Art Director at Sideways, a company creating an HTML based publishing platform that re-imagines what the next generation of books and magazines will look like on mobile devices. Brad is an award-winning web designer, best known for his comics that are published monthly in .Net magazine (Practical Web Design here in the US) and "The Brads" a weekly strip found on his personal website. His work has appeared on the New York Time's website, CNET, Smashing Magazine and elsewhere.
Location
The Harrison Center for the Arts
Located downtown at 16th and Delaware Street, The Harrison Center is a former church turned public art gallery with plenty of space, a great atmosphere and a lot of visual inspiration. We'll be mingling among some great artwork from local artists, and sessions will be held in galleries that are as intimate as they are relaxed.
Staying Near the Harrison Center
Check out airbnb for some unique places nearby. If that's not your style there are several Marriott, Hyatt, Hilton and Omni Severin properties.
Schedule
| Times | Courtyard | Gym | Gallery 2 | The Underground |
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| 9am |
Registration 9:00am - 10:00am |
Harvest Hack Lounge 9:00am - 9:00pm |
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| 10am | nothing scheduled |
Faruk Ateş 10:10am - 11:00am |
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| 11am | nothing scheduled |
Yehuda Katz 11:10am - 12:00pm |
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| 12pm | nothing scheduled |
Jan Cavan 12:10pm - 1:00pm |
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| 1pm |
Lunch 1:00pm - 2:10pm |
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| 2pm | nothing scheduled |
Neven Mrgan 2:10pm - 3:00pm |
Harvest Hack Lounge 9:00am - 9:00pm |
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| 3pm | nothing scheduled |
Leah Culver 3:10pm - 4:00pm |
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| 4pm | nothing scheduled |
Brad Colbow 4:30pm - 5:20pmEthan Marcotte 5:30pm - 6:20pm |
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| 9pm | nothing scheduled | nothing scheduled | nothing scheduled |
TypeKit After Party 9:00pm - ? |
| 10pm | ||||
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