I am happy to announce I will be presenting on the Ionic Framework at this year’s SoCal Code Camp! The event is free and is being held at the University of California, San Diego campus on June 24th. I will have my book to give away as well.
For more details on the event, or to register (or present!), visit http://www.socalcodecamp.com/
I am giving a presentation at the next San Diego JS Monthly Meeting, May 2 @ 7:30 pm. If you have ever been curious about what Ionic is and how it works, this talk is for you.
What is the Ionic Framework? The Ionic Framework combines Google’s Angular with Apache’s Cordova to create fast and beautiful cross-platform mobile apps for iOS and Android (and Electron or Progressive Web Apps). Built atop the web technologies you know and love, this solution can help take your web skills beyond the browser.
In this talk, I will give you an overview of the Ionic Framework, show how to install it, and finally build a quick app and deploy it to both iOS and Android using some of the additional Ionic.io services.
Hope to see you there!
Introduction to Ionic (20 minutes)
Introduction to Angular and TypeScript (30 minutes)
Building your first app (30 minutes)
Break (10 minutes)
Styling your Ionic app (30 minutes)
Ionic Native (30 minutes)
Debugging Ionic applications (20 minutes)
Wrap-up and Q&A (10 minutes)
Building your second app (30 minutes)
Ionic navigation (30 minutes)
Google Maps integration (30 minutes)
Break (10 minutes)
Exploring other Ionic components (30 minutes)
Accelerate your application’s development and features (30 minutes)
Next steps, wrap-up, and Q&A (20 minutes)
On Tuesday, April 21st, I will be leading a hands on session on animating with CSS for the Orange County Multimedia Association. Although our phones and tablets may not be able to run Adobe Flash-based animations, the mobile web is far from static! This presentation is going to explore the use of CSS-based animations as a way to bring motion back into your web design.
We are going to explore using CSS to bring your web-based projects to life. I am also going to demonstrate some additional solutions that you can explore to help bring the web to life!
Details here: http://www.ocmma.org/
I am pleased to be on a panel discussing one of my favorite topics, prototyping! Here are the details about the event:
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
The Creative Group
4225 Executive Square, Suite 300, San Diego, CA
Happy October, UXers! We hope you’re keeping your cool during summer’s last stand, and maybe vacationing someplace where the leaves do that thing that leaves are supposed to do this time of year.
This month, we’re proud to offer up a panel of professional prototypers. These designers do prototyping in their daily work, either as their primary role or a fundamental part of their process. They often work within lean UX teams to design and test in collaboration with more traditional UXers. You’ll get to pick their brains, learn more about prototyping as a methodology and deliverable, and get advice on how to incorporate the practice into your own work.
This idea came from our Intuit lab tour event — which hey, by the way, thanks for attending! — where we heard a lot of feedback from folks who wanted to know more about the UX prototyper role that Intuit hires for. You’re smart cookies to be curious: prototyping is a hot topic these days, steadily gaining traction in design circles, and sometimes even replacing wireframes and mockups as a main deliverable. And since caring for our community is the name of our game, we wanted to throw together a little something to help you learn more about it.
We rounded up an awesome group of designers to make this possible, including:
Hooman Anvar
Principal, Hooman Anvar User Experience Design and Strategy
Adam Armstead
Senior Interaction Designer, Intuit, former Design Manager at TakeLessons
Elina Kim
Experience Design Prototyper, Intuit
Heather Daggett
Senior Experience Design Prototyper, Intuit
Chris Griffith
Staff Engineer, Qualcomm UX
And our shiny new president, Paul Hong, as moderator.
Beverages and light appetizers will be served.
RSVP now to ensure you get to attend!
Park in the 4225 parking structure just across Executive Square from the 4225 building. Your parking will be validated.
I had to miss speaking at the one in San Francisco, but I am back in the saddle to speak at the Los Angeles stop! This is going to be a great event filled with some incredible speakers. Personally, I will be presenting on using PhoneGap Build to quickly build native mobile applications.
The event will be on Saturday, November 15, 2014 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (PST) at the Art Institute of CA-Los Angeles.
For more information, visit the EventBrite page. Hope to see you there!
My first title for lynda.com has been released! It is “Up and Running with PhoneGap Build“. Here is the summary of the course:
See how PhoneGap, an open-source framework, and PhoneGap Build, a service in the Adobe Creative Cloud, allow you to create cross-platform mobile apps using the web technologies you know and love: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This course explores how to use PhoneGap Build to create app-store-ready applications for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. Learn how to build an app from GitHub, Dreamweaver, Edge Code, or even a simple ZIP file; configure icons, splash screens, and other preferences; enable access to camera and location sensor data; and deploy and install your device on your smart phone or tablet.
I am really proud of it and in total awe of what the lynda.com editors can do.
