IxDA-SF presents: Motion Design: Storytelling and Wayfinding in Mobile UI Design August 27, 2008

Cooper
100 First Street, 26th Floor
San Francisco, California 94105

We have reached capacity already! If you are "going" and plans change, please change your status so others can attend instead.

Otherwise, we'll see you all next week!! - IxDA-SF

IxDA-SF is pleased to have Punchcut this month sharing their insights on mobile interface design.

DESCRIPTION
Motion design is a key component in emerging device user interfaces. Designers must go beyond the gloss and use motion and animation to guide users through an experience. We will discuss and demonstrate motion design principles that balance utility and dramatic impact to create memorable, playful and usable branded experiences.

Christian will discuss the practical benefits of ways motion can provide meaning. He will discuss and show ways motion helps users create a mental model of a UI, enabling users to better anticipate UI behavior. While motion design has its own practice and considerations, emerging touch UIs have a dependence on motion design to be successful as gestural UIs demand natural motion to reinforce input behaviors like taps, flicks and pinches.

PRESENTER
Christian Robertson, Associate Director of Design, Punchcut

PRESENTER BIO
Christian Robertson is an veteran designer and a solution lead at Punchcut. He defines a project's vision and leads multi-disciplinary teams to help wireless carriers and OEMs get the most from emerging presentation layer technologies. His visual and motion design expertise coupled with real experience bringing device UIs to market means Robertson understands the interplay between what users need and how to design for the constraints of technology to deliver real results.

Christian is also a published type designer, having released several top-selling faces through Veer's Umbrella collection in addition to leading the design of mobile fonts for Punchcut clients.

SCHEDULE
6:30 pm – Socializing with light refreshments and Hiring Salon (employers/recruiters, bring job descriptions to share)
7:00 pm – Presentation

This event is FREE and open to the public.
Brought to you by IxDA-SF and Cooper.

Please RSVP - space is limited to 90!

Official Website: http://www.sf.ixda.org

Added by lenox on August 18, 2008

Comments

KFJ

I plan to attend and sent the link to the Interactive group at Goodby.

diggit

Looks great! I'll be there as will others from Tellme Design

lenox

Wow! Less than 24 hours posted & we have 82 folks going, this is great!

Please RSVP. We will cap at 90.

If you cannot make it, please change your RSVP to "interested" so others can attend.

andrewpeters

I'm curious what other SF firms are focusing on mobile interaction design?

Andrew // http://ueArchitect.com

lenox

I just reopened the guest list. Sorry 'bout that. I thought the 90 cap I set would automatically reopen it for us (hint, hint upcoming!)

See you all there!

g1sh

IxDA events are usually really good. Too bad this one was misleading. It wasn't really about mobile, everything in the presentation was basic knowledge for designing any type of interactions.