Garth Braithwaite on CSS and TopCoat

Adobe XD Designer Garth Braithwaite will present on building beautiful, modern web sites using CSS and TopCoat (http://goo.gl/LRPsG).

What's TopCoat? TopCoat is CSS for clean and fast web apps. It's web components that are high performance, themeable, open-source, and ready for use on desktops and mobile.

Why TopCoat?

• Web Developers: Learn advanced CSS techniques and how to build a CSS framework.

• Mobile Developers: Learn how to use TopCoat in PhoneGap mobile projects.

TopCoat is...

• Soooo Fast! Performance is our #1 goal. Every component we design is benchmarked for performance. You can see our results.

• Components Galore: We have the building blocks to get you up and running fast. Our growing set of components were born from CSS.

• Themeable: Is that even a word? It should be! We love our theme, but we don’t want to hit your brand over the head with it. Just add colors and voila!

• BEM Architecture: We believe CSS is ready for primetime. We are basing our architecture on BEM make your apps faster, less contextual and easier to manage.

• More: topcoat.io (http://goo.gl/LRPsG)

About Garth Braithwaite

Garth Braithwaite is a Senior Experience Designer at Adobe XD. He is currently working on TopCoat, a high performance, open source set of CSS web components. He previously worked on Brackets, an open source code editor built by Adobe. Garth hosts a podcast called Nerd Radio (http://nerdradio.com); speaks at conferences like 360|Flex (http://www.360stack.com) and Adobe Max (http://max.adobe.com); and co-authored The Flex 4 Cookbook (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596805623.do).

Previous to working at Adobe, Garth was the Director of User Experience at Rain, where he worked on projects for clients like Skull Candy and Sony.

Garth is also an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) and an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) for Flex, Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and InDesign.