There’s been a lot of hype about mobile devices since the debut of the iPhone in 2008. And now that there’s over 200,000 apps for sale in the iTunes App Store, a lot of content providers and Web designers want a piece of the action. But making apps is really technical and requires a lot of programming, right?It can... but it doesn’t have to. In this workshop, you'll learn how to design a mobile app by using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript – and you'll get the code you need to keep working with it and design your own app. In the process, you'll learn that your skills as a standards-based Web designer are much more valuable than you may have realized.This workshop will:Introduce you to the iPhone Developer program.Orient you to Apple's Xcode development software and iPhone Simulator, part of the iPhone SDK.Teach you how to design a mobile application — and give you all of the code to be able to complete one (or more) on your own.Provide an overview of the iTunes Connect Web application for distributing and selling iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad apps.Compare Objective-C code frameworks that exclusively support Apple mobile devices with alternatives that support additional mobile platforms such as Android and Blackberry.Participants of this workshop need to provide their own Macs, and download and install the free iPhone SDK prior to the conference, to fully participate in all aspects of the workshop. The iPhone SDK is a very large file and should not be downloaded at the beginning of the workshop.
Kristofer Layon directs Web design and online collaboration for two senior vice presidents at the University of Minnesota. He is also a co-founder of MinneWebCon, the University of Minnesota's annual Web conference. Kris has been a graphic designer since 1993, a Web designer since 1995, and a mobile application designer since 2009. He has designed over one dozen mobile applications for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, and teaches standards-based app design to Web designers across the country. Kris has a Master of Fine Arts degree in interactive design from the University of Minnesota's College of Design, and gave a social media presentation at HighEdWeb 2009 in Milwaukee.