May: Android on the Desktop, and the Latest on Project Phoebe

***We'll be back at American Express, our generous sponsors who make the monthly meetups possible. They have sensitive security procedures so please:

1. enter your FULL NAME on the RSVP question. 2) bring photo ID matching your name, or building security won't allow entrance.

Come as close to 6:30pm as possible, registration closes at 7:30pm.

We're excited to have Mark Murphy (of Commonsware) back for a pre-IO talk, and Liam Spradlin (of touchlab) for updates on Project Phoebe & mutative design. Doors open 6:30pm, talks start at 7pm.

Talks:
Mark Murphy, "Android, the Desktop, and Your App"
In a few weeks, Google will hold their annual I|O conference. Rumors abound that Google will announce some sort of Android-on-the-desktop initiative, offering Android for desktop and notebook form factors. Even if Google doesn't announce anything at I|O, a move to have Android compete with Windows and OS X seems inevitable. This will have impacts on your app, to adapt to non-touchscreen displays, mice- and keyboard-centric user input, resizeable windows, and so on.
In this presentation, we will explore what what user expectations will be for desktop-style Android apps, how Android and your app might deal with those issues, and what else to watch out for with respect to any possible announcements in this space.

Liam Spradlin, "Mutative Design: What it's like to use a mutative interface"
Mutative design is a new methodology that hopes to address the problems inherent in designing for averages. It looks to create interfaces and experiences that are born, live, and evolve according to a user's ongoing realities, providing a no-compromise design that accounts for every user, regardless of vision level, data access, physical ability, or even tech savvy. The first steps in thinking about and experimenting with this methodology were made with the introduction of Project Phoebe in December (hello.phoebe.xyz), and now it's time to take a look at Phoebe's latest steps.
In this talk we'll unpack what it's like to actually use and live with a mutative interface, how mutations may be automatically selected for using aggregated information about various user states, and how to ensure users feel comfortable with an interface that may change and grow as they do.

A big thanks to our sponsor, The American Express Company (https://careers.americanexpress.com/tech/), and David for coordinating with us again.

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