Web SIG

Designing for Small Screens

When

Tuesday, October 1, 2002

Materials presented at this meeting:

Marc Rettig's Presentation (pdf)

Games, training, interactive communication and more are heading for handhelds. What are the best ways to design for these small screens? What issues must be faced? What trends are being set?

Please join us as three panelists show examples of their work and discuss the issues that must be faced when designing for this new media.

Marc Rettig consults in ethnographic research, interaction design, and product innovation. And he teaches those subjects in public forums, universities (Institute of Design at IIT and Carnegie Mellon University), and in corporations. His career has spanned more than twenty years of design, development and influence in consultancies, corporations, publishers, and start-ups. Marc's experience with small-screen devices ranges from research into their context of use to prototyping techniques and process issues. At Carnegie Mellon, Marc worked with graduate students creating innovations in "invisible technology" for art museums. As chief experience officer at HannaHodge and Director of User Experience at Cambridge Technology Partners, Marc investigated patterns in people's use of personal communication devices. As principal conceptual designer of products for dka, a Chicago-based Web start-up, he invented numerous interface and product concepts for Web publishing. Marc also served as a design lead in Andersen Consulting's advanced technologies group. Marc is active on corporate and organizational advisory boards, and contributed to the formative stages of the AIGA Experience Design SIG. (www.marcrettig.com)

Scott Corley has been working in the video game industry since 1993. After six years of Playstation and Nintendo development, Scott succumbed to the lure of the small screen and founded Red Mercury, LLC to create and publish Palm OS games. Red Mercury currently has five games available for Palm OS. (http://red-mercury.com)

Daren Carstens founded Carstens Studios, Inc, where he authors, designs, programs and develops educational products for kids (www.matharena.com), and creates shockwave interactive experiences for various Web sites. He has worked in K-12 educational publishing for 12 years, and his work has received many awards. Daren will share the work he is currently doing on a series of postage stamp-sized puzzles and games. (www.carstensstudios.com)

Illinois Institute of Art
350 N. Orleans, Room 124
5:30-6:30: Networking, light buffet
6:30-8:15: Scott, Marc and Daren
8:15-8:45: Q&A, networking
Admission: AMC members and students FREE; non-members $10.

About the Web SIG

The Web SIG is held on the first Tuesday of every month. Please forward your meeting ideas and questions regarding this SIG to chair Harvey Tillis at Harvey@tillis.com.

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