Buttons Are a Hack: The New Rules of Designing for Touch

UPDATE:

-- To accommodate the significant interest in the event, Apple has moved us to the 1st floor. The space can hold 150-200 people, so chances are that everyone who shows up will be able to get in.

-- The 1st floor space is standing only -- there will be no chairs. Wear your comfy shoes.

-- The meetup starts at 7 pm. Apple will start letting people in at 6 pm. Arrive on the earlier side to get a good spot.

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Get ready for a double dose of awesome in July.

First, we'll be meeting at the Apple Store, West 14th Street, which should be really fun.

Second, our speaker this month is Josh Clark, author of the best iPhone design book on the planet, Tapworthy (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1449381650).

Josh will deliver a fresh new talk, entitled:

Buttons Are a Hack: The New Rules of Designing for Touch

"Fingers and thumbs turn design conventions on their head. Touchscreen interfaces create ergonomic, contextual, and even emotional demands that are unfamiliar to desktop designers. Find out why our beloved desktop windows, buttons, and widgets are weak replacements for manipulating content directly, and learn practical principles for designing mobile interfaces that are both more fun and more intuitive. Along the way, discover why buttons are a hack, how to develop your gesture vocabulary, and why toys and toddlers provide eye-opening lessons in this new style of design."

Here's the one catch about this meetup: events at the Apple Store, West 14th Street are open to the public and first-come, first-serve. Please RSVP like usual, but be aware that for this event, an RSVP does not guarantee admission. The only way to be sure of getting into this meetup is to get there extra early.

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About our speaker:

Josh Clark is a designer specializing in mobile design strategy and user experience. He's author of "Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps" (O'Reilly, 2010) and "Best iPhone Apps" (O'Reilly, 2009). Josh's outfit Global Moxie offers consulting services and workshops to help media companies, design agencies, and creative organizations build tapworthy mobile apps and effective websites.

Before the internet swallowed him up, Josh worked on a slew of national PBS programs at Boston's WGBH. He shared his three words of Russian with Mikhail Gorbachev, strolled the ranch with Nancy Reagan, hobnobbed with Rockefellers, and wrote trivia questions for a primetime game show. In 1996, he created the uberpopular "Couch-to-5K" (C25K) running program, which has helped millions of skeptical would-be exercisers take up jogging. (His motto is the same for fitness as it is for software user experience: no pain, no pain.)

Amazon link for Tapworthy: http://www.amazon.com/dp/144938165