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• iPad Design Headaches (Take 2 Tablets, Call Me in the Morning)

  by Josh Clark

  The iPad and its entourage of Android tablets have introduced a new style of computing, confronting designers with unfamiliar aches and pains. Learn the symptoms (and fixes) for a range of new-to-the-world iPad interface ailments, including Greedy Pixel Syndrome, the dreaded Frankeninterface, and the "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" bait and switch. Explore practical techniques and eye-opening gotchas of tablet interface design, all grounded in the ergonomics, context, psychology, and nascent culture of these new devices (both iOS and Android). The presentation inoculates you against common problems with close-up looks at successful iPad apps from early sketches to final design. Genial bedside manner is administered by Josh Clark, author of the O'Reilly books "Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps" and "Best iPhone Apps: A Guide for Discriminating Downloaders."

  LEVEL: Advanced

  • Design
  • iPad
  • Mobile
  • Tablets
  • User Experience

  At 9:30am to 10:30am, Saturday 12th March

  In Salon J, Hilton Austin Downtown

  Coverage write-up note write-up liveblog slide deck write-up write-up write-up photo sketch note

• Mistakes I Made Building Netflix for the iPhone

  by Kent Brewster

  A funny thing happened last spring: Netflix let me build the front end for their iPhone product. Yeah. Me. The punk-rock-API guy.

  The initial conversation went something like this:

  Netflix: "It's five weeks to WWDC. We've got Mobile Safari, our open APIs, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."

  Me: "Hit it."

  LEVEL: Advanced

  • iPhone
  • Mobile

  At 12:30pm to 1:30pm, Saturday 12th March

  In Salon J, Hilton Austin Downtown

  Coverage write-up slide deck