FOWD NY: Web and mobile fun in the Big Apple.
Last week I was in New York, speaking at the Future of Web Design conference, where I presented the second day opening keynote and taught a new one-day workshop on iPhone Design & Development.
I attended both days of the conference and loved the other sessions as well as the venue, and, of course, New York, where we got to see Driving Miss Daisy with James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave, eat at Bubba Gump's overlooking Times Square (what an experience), and enjoy the culinary delights of the excellent The National restaurant (where we had the most amazing Branzino), and knock back a couple of espresso martini's at the W Hotel (they serve the best ones I've had anywhere).
I was also elated that my keynote got some rave reviews. So, as usual, here's a compilation before they get lost forever in the bowels of my Twitter stream (yummy analogy, I know!)
. @aral is an awesome presenter."we try to inject our humanity in to our communications online" #fowd
.@aral is awesome http://twitpic.com/37dh7b
.@aral is presenting - great start to day 2!
Wow this presentation was so worth walking 10 blocks in the drizzle. "Design is not a democracy" -@aral #fowd
Enjoying a very insightful & creative talk about UX design from @aral. Terrific start to the day. #fowd
Entirely mesmerized by @aral's talk. Such enthusiasm you just want to run and make people's life simpler. #FOWD
Feeling wired. Not sure if it's because of the two cups of coffee I sucked down or because I just saw @aral present @fowd. Awesome.
Fantastic presentation from @aral about experience design. Perfect way to start the morning.
Really great and energetic session by @aral to start day 2 of #fowd! You can always tell when a speaker is truly passionate about the topic.
Agreed! RT @UXZombie: RT @ryangiglio: Wow, really amazing and inspiring talk by @aral. He was every bit as great as I heard. #FOWD
The best so far, and that's saying a lot. RT @antcolangelo: Absolutely amazing talk by @aral to start the day!
aral's talk was AWESOME! RT @jasongraphix: "I look at Clippy & see Steve Balmer starring back at me in paperclip form." - @aral #fowd
At #FOWD #NY really enjoyed @aral's talk on creating delightful user experience. A really engaging talk and seemingly super nice chap
@aral Hi, I am Sarah I was at the FOWD today and was so impress by your presentation. Great Job and vending machine was a good one lol!
“@spnaaeng: #FOWD inspiring talk from @aral, bringing more joy and delight to user experience” I agree :-)
todays opening session on experience design by @aral was compelling. find myself more and more fascinated by UX design. #fowd
todays opening session on experience design by @aral was compelling. find myself more and more fascinated by UX design. #fowd
@aral your talk was phenomenal one of the best so far. Wish you had longer.
@aral was a great talk! Looking forward to workshop even more now!!
@aral You had one of the best presentations I've seen this year. Great presence, witty jokes and a well communicated topic #cheers #fowd
@aral No problem! Amazing presentation this morning at #fowd. Well worth the trip from DC if just for that alone.
@FOWD Favorite part has been listening to @aarron and @aral speak about emotion and experience in design
Favorite thing about #fowd: @aarron Arron Walter, @beep Ethan Marcotte & @aral Aral Balkan. Very inspiring speakers! @FOWD #posterwin
Another day of great speakers at the Future of Web Design conference, especially enjoyed @aral ..looking forwarded iPhone/iOS Dev tomorrow
@fowd highlight definitely hearing @Aral speak. Such passion! #fowd #posterwin
Great presentations on design at day 2 of Future of Web Design #fowd - especially enjoyed @aral - iPhone dev class tomorrow! Thanks @fowd
@aral Hey Aral, it was really funny, it kept me and my art director laughing the whole time : )
I think next year I have to drop the cash on an @aral workshop just to hear the man teach more. Highlight of #FOWD for me.
Really enjoyed the entire #FOWD event! Glad to have met a lot of people. Enjoyed all talks especially @aral's! He rocked.
If you ever have the op to hear @aarron or @aral speak, it's a MUST. Totally pleased with #FOWD this year. It totally rocked.
@Malarkey @aral had an INCREDIBLE talk on Experience Design at #FOWD. If you're interested I'll get you a copy. Gave clarity to "UX Design".
And here is some feedback from my new one-day iPhone Design & Development workshop that I taught at FOWD NY.
The course covered design principles and limitations and compared and contrasted development using just web technologies, web technologies using a framework (JQTouch), web technologies wrapped in a native wrapper (via Phonegap), JavaScript used to create native apps with native components (via NimbleKit), other third-party technologies (Corona and Unity3D), and native development with Objective-C/Cocoa Touch.
The goal of the workshop was to give an overview of designing for the iPhone and to empower students to make the right decision about which – out of a handful of carefully selected – technologies (or combinations of technologies) to use when building their next iPhone app.
Created my first iPhone app - very basic - but loving this and soaking up great teaching from @aral - can't wait for pt2 ...starting now!
This is awesome! I'm learning bits of JavaScript in this iPhone/iPad workshop at #fowd with @aral, + that MAMP install. #awesomesauce
@aral 's workshop just made my head really hurt.
Wow, a full day with @aral and getting started with iPhone app designing and development. A lot of things in my head now!
Thank-you all again for your lovely, kind words about my talks. It really does mean a lot for me that you enjoyed them.
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by Jen Wilhelm on 2010-11-23 23:30:24