Chapter Meeting

Next Meeting: Tuesday January 10, 2011

Speaker: Joe Welinske

Developing User Interface Text and Web-based Content in SmartPhone Applications

iPhone, Android, and Blackberry. Oh my! Smartphones have created a huge new software market: the mobile app. and effective user assistance plays an important role in supporting successful mobile apps.

This presentation will help you understand the basics of mobile application creation. We will explore how the reduced screen real estate of mobile devices makes choosing the right words critical to the usability of the app. We will look at some of the different web content delivery methods for various mobile platforms. By understanding how application creation is done, you can do much of the design work on your own without the need for programming resources.

This session will cover iPhone/iPad and Android but can be generalized to other mobile platforms. This session is technical in nature but does not require any experience with programming.

Presentation topics will include:
- Selecting the right words for clear communication structions for difficult concepts
- Determining how much text to use within the limited screen real estate available
- Effectively displaying content developed for a desktop on the mobile device
- Understanding the vocabulary used by mobile app developers
- How to prototype with the iPhone SDK and simulator

Joe Welinske is the president of WritersUA (formerly WinWriters), a company devoted to providing training and information for user assistance professionals. Joe has been involved with software documentation development since 1984. He is currently working on designing Help for a range of iPhone applications, where his focus is on features that are not easily discovered. He'll share his experiences in this session.

Location:

Embassy Suites Los Angeles International Airport/South
1440 East Imperial Avenue
El Segundo, California  90245
310-640-3600  

Parking: Free parking in the garage below.

Schedule:
6:00 p.m.: Networking and check-in
6:30 p.m.: Dinner
7:00 p.m.: Business meeting
7:15 p.m.: Presentation

Reservations:

You can save $5 off the event price by reserving by the deadline. The deadline for the reservation discount is the Sunday before the event. Even if the discount deadline has passed, please reserve anyway so we can save space and food for you. Please make your reservation via email: treasurerlastc@yahoo.com. Include all the names of those reserving and contact information for you. For other information, contact Pam Wilkes or Betsy Suttle, Programs VPs, at programs@lastc.org