May 07
Flash Camp Seattle
May 7 — Seattle, WA
Company, User Experience Design, Technology
Flash Camp Seattle Sessions
We will continue to update this page with new information on sessions between now and the event. Check back often for new session listings for Flash Camp Seattle! For information on speakers, visit the Speakers page.
Session: Game Development with Flash
I don’t know about you… but as an enterprise software developer, sometimes I need to take a break from the corporate world and want to develop something fun. In this session Nate Beck will take you through the basics of game development on the Flash Platform. Nate will walk through setting up your development environment, the basics of game development, using the open source PushButton game engine and building a functioning game.
Session: Custom Metadata with Swiz
The latest 1.0 release of the Swiz Framework has introduced the ability to build and use custom metadata processors. In this session you’ll get an intro to the Swiz Framework and what metadata processors are and why you should use them. I’ll take you through the steps of building your own custom metadata processor and show you some great examples of metadata processors that are already available.
Session: HTML5 and Flash: Technology Choices for The Next Era
Anyone working in the web and mobile spaces is aware that HTML, in its latest iteration, make major strides towards being a worthy competitor for Flash as the basis for some applications. What are its advantages? Where does it fall down, when compared to Flash? Where do the two stand in terms of device compatibility and interoperability? What types of apps may be appropriate for one technology over the other? Must one of these technologies lose in order for the other to win? In this session, Jeff Croft will moderate a panel of experts from both the web standards and Flash worlds to discuss these issues and more.
The session will be moderated by Jeff Croft, nGenWorks and panelists include Matt Brown, thingsthatarebrown; Ric Ewing; Jason Hickner, VaryWell; and Martin McClellan, MSNBC.com.Session: Creating Custom Components in Flash and Flex
Speed daily workflow by creating custom, reusable components in Flash Pro. Find out how to use (and reuse) these components in Flash and Flex projects so that they are easy for developers to implement and simple for designers to skin, allowing both sides to get what they want.
Session: Building UX with Adobe, Expression and whatever else gets the job done
Everyone has their Kool-Aid - whether its Apple, Adobe and especially Microsoft…but the true usually is some where in the middle. In this presentation we will talk about that middle ground where some of the best creative agencies live. Using tools like Adobe Illustrator to build better User eXperiences for Silverlight and WPF, from marketing Brand Jordan to retail. When it comes right down to it, its about the UX, not the technology. By using the tools that we are most familiar with, we can do the best job and deliver the best creative UX to our clients.
Session: Flash Builder 4 Service Wizards
Get an overview of the powerful service introspection and code generation wizards in Flash Builder 4. Covered will be a simple REST style call to retrieve and display XML, a SOAP based Web Service client, a simple PHP client, advanced PHP client with data paging enabled, AMF channels to talk to Java classes and Fiber data driven development. Most of the session will be spent in code view and attendees will receive the code from each project plus pointers to where they can download the servers used.
Session: The Art of Storytelling
During this session we will be exploring the UX (User Experience) methodology in a way that will be unique, engaging, and inspiring to a community of developers who seek to understand the sometimes confusing world of the Experience Designer.
Session: It’s A Matter of Trust
People often talk about usability and learnability when discussing web and application development. Things have to be intuitive and familiar to increase conversions and trial… blah blah blah. All of this is really important. But what does it really boil down to? It’s all a matter of trust. Trust between the user and the developer. Between the user and the designer. Ultimately trust is allowing yourself to become vulnerable based on a positive expectation. So how do you build trust? And how do you avoid breaking it? It’s about the promises you make in subtle and obvious ways. In his session Carl will break down key steps to understanding, building and keeping trust with your users. More than that you’ll get to hear from real users what they think when you break that trust. Ouch!