The following workshops will be held on Wed., May 16, 2012 at the Oregon Convention Center’s D Series meeting rooms. Times and speakers are subject to change.
Morning workshops are held from 9:00am to 12:30pm. Afternoon workshops are held from 1:30pm to 5:00pm.
HTML 5 Gaming is rapidly evolving and there has never been a better time to give it a try. This workshop focuses on using Impact JS and other libraries and tools to create amazing games in the browser without any plugins. We’ll be taking advantage of the HTML5 Canvas, JavaScript, and modern browsers (Chrome, Safari, FireFox, IE 9+) to deliver fast, fluid games directly in the browser.
Join typography expert Thomas Phinney for an immersive, hands-on workshop on using CSS3 typographic controls to create great web typography, from enabling custom web fonts with @font-face to achieving special effects for titles that rely on CSS alone. A live web site will be provided for each participant to practice and experiment on, along with access to WebINK web fonts.
How you design web pages is changing — rapidly. Styles that once could only be accomplished by kludging together graphics, are now easily achieved using pure code. Part of being a great web designer is understanding the medium you are designing for, recognizing its weaknesses and pushing its strengths. Understanding this balance is also core to creating web sites using the philosophy of progressive enhancement, a web design philosophy that says that pages don’t have to look the same in every browser, they just have to be usable.
It’s time you learned how to design Interactive Web pages leveraging the new CSS3 technologies that will allow designers to quickly add gradients, drop shadows, rounded corners, and variety of static and interactive design styles to their Web pages.
Responsive Web Design focuses on the display of web content, but the reality is that devices are much more than displays. In this workshop for both developers and designers, novices and pros, you'll come away with a solid understanding of how to create a product that makes full use of all of the capabilities of a device, from its screen to its accelerometer, and everything in between.
Regardless of our best laid plans it's often the ideas and events that we least expect that end up mattering to us most. This has never been more true than in today's chaotic, highly uncertain world. Serendipity--looking for one thing and finding another--is increasingly recognized as an organizing principle of personal creativity, adaptive teams, and discovery in user experiences. Yet how can we plan for something that by definition is unpredictable? How can we prepare for the unpreparable?
In this Workshop, Aaron Gustafson will teach you everything you need to know about modern web design with progressive enhancement. Whether you are a novice or an experienced professional, you will walk away from this workshop with a greater understanding of what progressive enhancement is and how to implement this philosophy in your own work.
During the course of the workshop, Aaron will mentor you on best practices as you work together to build a web page from the content out.
Websites used to be simple: you’d write some HTML, style it with CSS, add behavior with JavaScript and you’d be done. But as of 2012, each of those three steps has become orders of magnitude more complicated, demanding far more extensive knowledge on your part—enough to confuse the heck out of anyone! Learn how to get started with modern web development: the tools, the libraries, the new development principles and design techniques.
Custom hardware for custom projects used to be expensive and deeply technical. Thanks in large part to the commoditization of sensors, and the movement of open source, all you need these days is an idea and the will to experiment. If you can plug-and-play, then you can be a Maker. In this half-day session, you will get a gentle introduction to the world of custom hardware projects with the open source electronics prototyping platform, Arduino. Join Adobe Evangelist, Kevin Hoyt on a guided tour of how to get setup, build your first Arduino program, interact with electrical sensors, and connect to your web-based applications. Along the way, get the inspiration flowing with coverage of several custom projects.
SciFi and other speculative interfaces can unlock possibilities for new interactions in any product or service. This workshop will quickly share lessons culled from imaginative interfaces unconstrained from traditional constraints, with examples, and prompts attendees to brainstorm around these lessons to unlock new aspects of their existing projects. Then, attendees will develop their own projects using these inspirations.
All levels of experience can benefit from this unique perspective and gain valuable insights. Likewise, any product or service interface can be enhanced with these lessons.
Today’s web is being overrun by mobile devices. iPhone. iPad. Blackberry. Windows Phone 7. Symbian. WebOS. There’s too many to keep up with and that’s before you talk about the fragmention mess called Android. How do you take your current web design and development chops and uplevel them to face the neverending onslaught of new phones, tablets and devices–this so called zombie apocalypse of devices?
You’ll leave the workshop armed with the skills you need to build mobile web sites and knowledge needed to face any new form factors that may yet come. From small to large screens, from mobile phones to Internet-connected refrigerators, you’ll be ready to handle anything.
Entering its 12th year, the Portland event kicks off with studio tours, parties and networking events on Tuesday, followed by one day of workshops and two full day of sessions, panels and keynotes.
