Rochelle Benavides will be joining us to talk about the ever popular Zune MixView.  Join us and drink some coolaid - are you a Microsofty, Adobenaught, Java sipper, or something else?  We’d love for you to join us and express your opinions, ideas, and ask many questions.
WHEN
Date: Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm PAC
WHERE
Bellevue Place
10500 NE 8th St.
Bellevue, WA 98004

Yoeun Pen is going a presentation on his experience with adobe tools and technologies, more details as to content to come and check out his blog on

http://www.nationleprechaun.com/

is doing a presentation on Design principals and how to evaluate design.  Scott is a recognized expert in the field and a great guy.  come check out this great presentation.  We have books from O’rielly for review to give out and A-press books  to give a way and more. We are about the User Experience UX and its about high contact, high touch human machine interfaces.

In the new age its all about design, design, design.

We have returned to our Bellevue place location in May (3rd Wed of every month).

This time we will be at:

Meet us in the second floor board room (2nd Floor Boardroom - Near Sunny Teriyaki) , call 253.653.9133 if you get lost or don’t see anyone.

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=47.61753~-122.2004&lvl=13&style=r&sp=aN.47.61791_-122.2003_Bellevue%2520Place_&mkt=en-US&FORM=LLWR

Scott Barnes is doing a presentation on Design principals and how to evaluate design.  Scott is a recognized expert in the field and a great guy.  come check out this great presentation.  We have books from Orielly on design to give a way and more.  In the new age its all about design, design, design.

We have returned to our Bellevue place location in April (3rd Wed of every month).

This time we will be at:

Meet us in the second floor board room (2nd Floor Boardroom - Near Sunny Teriyaki) , call 253.653.9133 if you get lost or don’t see anyone.

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=47.61753~-122.2004&lvl=13&style=r&sp=aN.47.61791_-122.2003_Bellevue%2520Place_&mkt=en-US&FORM=LLWR

http://madowney.com/blog/2009/03/27/microsoft-mix09-recap/

By a flash guy no less

O’Reilly Workshop: Build, Compile, and Run Your iPhone App in 2 Days April 25 & 26, 2009 9am - 5pm Bell Harbor International Conference Center

2211 Alaskan Way Pier 66

Seattle, WA 98121

Register with code “iphonedev” and pay only $300 UG Members save $900.00 off the regular price of $1200.

For more information and to register:

http://youriphoneapp.eventbrite.com

(not combinable with any other discounts)

Learn to build mobile applications for today’s most popular platform:

Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch. In this invitation-only, dynamic two-day workshop, you’ll get up to speed on the basics, including the Cocoa programming environment, Xcode suite of tools, the Objective-C language, and Instruments, a tool to help debug your applications. And then you’ll create not one, but two iPhone applications.

All you need is familiarity with the Mac, basic experience with object-oriented programming (such as Java or Visual Studio), and an understanding of pointers and C syntax. Instructor and knowledgeable iPhone app developer Joe Heck will quickly teach you the rest. What you’ll take away from this workshop is the knowledge to build effective iPhone apps with the same tools Apple uses.

Hope to see everyone at our MIX reloaded meeting this wed.  In the way of news SD2IG has joined INETA (http://www.ineta.org/).  INETA is an international User Group organization that helps provided support to community orgnizations around the world for things like peer based support, educational and promotional support etc..  alas INETA is a MS technology related group but some of us do focus on those technologies. 

Many of us at SD2IG attend a ubber conference called MIX.  MIX is a show in Las Vegas that is for designers and developers.  Granted much of the conference is around WPF/Silverlight and related UX technologies but other topics such as flash are covered with the main point around the next generation User Experience on the web.  Since a large group of us will be at mix this months meeting is the 25th and we will be looking at our favorite or not so favorite bits from mix in Retrospect.  If you don’t get to MIX here is a great chance to get an over view of some of the coolaid coming from MIX.  Come drink some with us :) 

Please Note: Location has changed Back

This change in location is temporary.  We will return to our Bellevue place location in March.

This time we will be at:

Meet us in the second floor board room (2nd Floor Boardroom - Near Sunny Teriyaki) , call 253.653.9133 if you get lost or don’t see anyone.

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=47.61753~-122.2004&lvl=13&style=r&sp=aN.47.61791_-122.2003_Bellevue%2520Place_&mkt=en-US&FORM=LLWR

News at MIX

The discussion continues at www.visitmix.com. MIX09 sessions and keynote recordings have been posted here. Check out and upload MIX09-tagged pictures at flickr. In addition to the bits you received while at MIX, we have several downloads you’ll want to check out here.

At MIX we were part of the Silverlight 3 beta announcement including more than 50 new features and 20 new controls, including support for running Silverlight applications out of the browser, dramatic video quality, performance improvements, and features that dramatically improve developer productivity.

MS also announced the official release of Windows Internet Explorer 8 at MIX09. Microsoft’s most standards compliant browser, Internet Explorer 8 provides enhanced security, performance and includes features such as Accelerators and Web Slices making it easier for developers to reach beyond the page.  (we will see how perf is)

Hope to see you wed.

Wow!  Our 4th meeting.  We almost feel like a real organization!

The February topic was decided: Mobile and Design stories for JavaFX.

Joining us to talk about this topic will be Brent Christian, software engineer from Sun Microsystem.

Please Note: Location has changed

This change in location is temporary.  We will return to our Bellevue place location in March.

This time we will be at:

Meet as by the elevators (2nd floor) to gain access, call 253.653.9133 if you get lost or don’t see anyone.

Our meeting on the 12th was great.  We had to move our location for the next couple months due to issues with Lincon Square so we hope no one got lost although we only moved across the street…  even with that being the case, downtown bellevue can get kind of a maze.

We had two great presentations on iPhone development and designer ‘not’ experiences.   Matt Muller (with www.redbackconsulting.com ) and Devin Brown (www.identitymine.com ) both did great presentations.  The design experience for doing on phone applications turned out to be a huge bust.  The ‘apple’ tools are just not there yet however doing web experiences for the iphone using things like iUI turns out to be kind of cool if one is into HTML/CSS/JavaScript and related.  Both Matt and Devin have blogs and we hope to see up coming blog posts on the content of their presentations.

A few related links to Mobile Device Development include

iPhone http://developer.apple.com/iphone/

Andriod http://code.google.com/android/

JavaFX  http://www.javafx.com/learn/ & http://java.sun.com/javafx/mobile/

Silverlight Mobile http://silverlight.net/learn/mobile.aspx

Flash Lite http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/flashlight.html

Next month we are excited to welcome Brentt Christian from Sun to tell us more about the Designer Developer story around JavaFX and around the mobile story for JavaFX as well which promises pretty cool.  Hope to see you there.

Also a few of the ’softee’s were drinking some Silverlight coolaid as seen in the following:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1757210&l=0eb25&id=721326429

See you next month

Now that we are recovering from the snow and now rain we are planning our next meeting.

Join us for the 3rd meeting of the Seattle Developer Designer Interaction Group and help to steer our vision and purpose. Come join fellow developers and designers who are all working towards the same goal, working together to serve our clients better. Reserve the time now. This months topic is mobile device development.

Please Note: Location has changed

This time we will be at: