An Event Apart Chicago runs from 9:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m. and features six sessions per day. There’s a lot to cover, so the event starts promptly each morning.
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Three Days Of Design, Code, And Content
An Event Apart Chicago features 12 great speakers and sessions. Following the two-day conference comes an intense full-day learning session on Designing Mobile Web Experiences led by Luke Wroblewski (author, Mobile First!, A Book Apart, 2012). You can register just for the two-day conference, or just the full-day learning session on mobile web design, or save $100 when you sign up for all three days.
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Whitney Hess, User Experience Designer
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Luke Wroblewski, Author, Mobile First!
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Ethan Marcotte, Author, Responsive Web Design
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Jared Spool, Founder, User Interface Engineering
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Sarah Parmenter, Founder, You Know Who
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Aarron Walter, Author, Designing for Emotion
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Jeremy Keith,
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Kristina Halvorson, Author, Content Strategy for the Web
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Cindy Li, Product Designer, Yahoo! Applications
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Kevin Hoffman, User Experience Director, Happy Cog
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Eric Meyer, Author, CSS: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition
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Jeffrey Zeldman, Author, Designing With Web Standards, 3rd Edition
Wednesday, August 29
Designing Mobile Web Experiences
Each day, device manufacturers ship more than a million touch-screen phones enabling new ways for people to interact with the Web. But when they get to your website or application, what kind of experience will people with these devices have? Will they be delighted by your mobile web experience or frustrated?
In this full-day session on Web design best practices for mobile devices, Luke will detail how to think about and design for web organization, actions, inputs, and layout on mobile. Through lots of examples, you’ll learn how to:
- Use “content first/navigate second” organizational structures optimized for small screens and mobile use cases
- Design for increasingly prevalent touch interactions with appropriate targets and gestures
- Construct forms and input fields to make input on mobile easier and more pervasive
- Manage layouts across multiple devices with ruthless editing, device experiences, and responsive/flexible designs
- And more!
Armed with these design best practices and principles, you can make sure people have a great mobile web experience whenever they visit your site.
This full-day session follows An Event Apart Chicago and runs 9:00am - 4:00pm on Wednesday, August 29. You can register online and save over $100 when you sign up for both An Event Apart and Designing Mobile Web Experiences.
NOTE: The full-day session on Designing Mobile Web Experiences is not a hands-on learning session or small-group workshop; upwards of 200 people typically attend.
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The Hotel
The Westin Chicago River North has arranged special room rates for An Event Apart attendees: just $249/night plus free internet for the duration of your stay. Call (312) 744-1900 and request the “An Event Apart special rate.” Limited rooms are available at this rate, so don’t delay.
The Westin Chicago River North offers refined accommodations and magnificent views of the Chicago River that will leave you feeling rested and recharged. The hotel is nestled in the heart of the business and theatre districts, trendy restaurants, and art galleries. Guests enjoy scenic views and an ideal location just steps from Michigan Avenue and Millennium Park. This AAA Four Diamond Award winning hotel is a completely smoke-free environment and offers delicious restaurants and a gym. Best of all, it’s the site of the conference. You can walk out of your room and into the show!