Fourth Stop on the Experience Makers Tour! - Steven Hoober (May 18th)

Experience it: Wednesday, May 18th at Speak Easy featuring Steven Hoober of 4ourthMobile as seen at MWUX, UXPA, SXSW, and beyond

The talk will cover designing great touchscreen mobile experiences:
• Background on peoples' behavior using mobile devices
• Ten guidelines for designing on mobile or tablet interfaces
• Real world examples of poor and great mobile experiences

This is our fourth stop on the 2016 Experience Makers Tour!

Join us for a tour around the greater Indianapolis area to explore and learn what products and services are being designed right here in your own backyard and what companies are shaping experience design in Indiana. Fourth stop, Steven Hoober at the Speak Easy!

Meet our guest speaker:

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Steven Hoober, @shoobe01

Founder/Author/Mobile Strategist

Organization: 4ourth Mobile

About Steven: Steven Hoober wrote the book (http://4ourth.com/wiki/) on mobile design patterns, and is best known for his ongoing research into how people really use touchscreen phones and tablets (http://4ourth.com/Touch). He is a reformed unicorn who has been a DBA and a FED but has focused on designing for mobile and multi-channel products since 1999, designing the first Google mobile search, the first mobile app store (for Sprint), mobile browsers including parts of the Samsung one you might be using right now, websites like Weather.com and Lowe's home improvement, and apps for companies like Hallmark, US Bank and Cummins diesel.

Steven maintains a repository of mobile design and development information including all the content from the O'Reilly book Designing Mobile Interfaces (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449394639/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=4ourthmobile-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=1449394639) at the 4ourth Mobile Patterns Wiki (http://4ourth.com/wiki), regularly writes for UX Matters (http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/mt-ftsearch.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&limit=20&search=steven+hoober) magazine, and UX Magazine (https://uxmag.com/contributors/steven-hoober), among other writing (http://4ourth.com/wiki/Mentions%2C%20Reviews%20%26%20Other%20Writing) and speaking (http://4ourth.com/wiki/Speaking).

Agenda

• 6:30-7:00 Hangout & Mingle
• 7:00-7:30 Short presentation on designing for fingers, touch and people
• 7:30-8:30 Workshop: make your current mobile app or website more touch friendly, then share your designs
• 8:30-8:40 Coming Up Next Month

Refreshments

Snacks and beverages courtesy of Experience Makers

Location

Speak Easy

5255 Winthrop Ave, Indianapolis, IN 46220 (https://www.google.com/maps/place/5255+Winthrop+Ave,+Indianapolis,+IN+46220/@39.8488856,-86.1433419,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x886b53cee933553d:0x592bafa82301436d!8m2!3d39.8488815!4d-86.1411532)

Please note: The building is located in Broad Ripple on Winthrop Avenue. The main entrance to Speak Easy is on the west side of the building on Winthrop.

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