On Tuesday, November 8th, we featured Ivo Gabrowitsch, Nadine Roßa and Javier Diaz, plus a lightning talk on Usability Testing by Jan-C. Borchardt.

• Ivo Gabrowitsch: App Fonts – The New Web Fonts

  Though we’ve barely even had time to get used to Webfonts, the next big challenge is already looming on the horizon for font users and manufacturers: fonts for apps and mobile devices. As with Webfonts, which have already become practically indispensable, there are a myriad of special considerations involved, including technical matters and, more importantly, legal issues. This presentation aims to sensitize both developers and graphic designers to this dicey topic and to introduce possibilities for secure embedding of mobile fonts.

  Ivo Gabrowitsch is the Marketing Director of the FontFont typeface library. He was responsible for the development and introduction of the unique ‘Web FontFonts’ concept onto the market. The gratuated engineer in print and media technology studied at Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin and used to work as a media designer.

  • fontfont.com
  • @gabrowitsch

• Nadine Roßa: How to Launch a Business Website

  When starting a consulting/agency business, there are a few things to do: Find a beautiful office, hire kick-ass developers and brilliant designers, and … get your own web site online.

  The latter seems easy at first but can be the greatest challenge of all as we noticed when founding LAUNCH/CO. In this talk we’ll talk about the ever-lasting process of launching our own website and what we’ve learned.

  Nadine Roßa is a designer, illustrator and a co-founder of LAUNCH/CO together with Jan Schulz-Hofen.

  • launchco.com
  • @nadrosia

• Javier Diaz: So … What Did We Learn? A Retrospective on Design

  As mid-life crisis hit Javi hard on the head and fellow designers & friends kept on asking him the same questions about improving their technique or getting better at designing, He started wondering: “What did I learn those years that could be helpful for others? What kind of advice would I give myself as a designer if I was travelling 10 years back in time?”

  Now relocated to Berlin and looking to take the next step in his career, Javier Diaz was working in Spain as UI / UX designer for Tuenti and was the main designer for the Unhosted project in the first stages.

  • edokoa.com
  • @edokoa

On Tuesday, October 11th, we will feature Caitlin Winner, Marco Hamersma and Malte Müller. Additionally we will hear lightning talks by Benjamin Kampmann and Patrick Hüsler.
You found a cool new tool, technology or case that fits into the web design or frontend category? Share it with us. You are always welcome to take a slot for a lightning talk. The location remains unchanged and is hosted by the co.up co-working space providing chairs and drinks for cheap.

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• Caitlin Winner: Painting and the Art of App Design

  … including the Horror of a Blank Canvas; Pierro della Francesca Applies for the App Store; The Golden Ratio and the Amen Rainbow.

  Caitlin Winner is the co-founder of Amen, a platform for expressing the extra ordinary. She graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in Economics and Studio Art and has worked at the MIT Media Lab, Plum and Nokia.

  • Amen
  • @caitlinwinner

• Marco Hamersma

  Although we spend lots of time and money on designing our interfaces, we don't always pay the same kind of attention to sounds. Marco's talk is about finding out when to use sound and what sounds are good to use in your interface.

  Marco is a developer and UX designer currently working as an intern at SoundCloud.

  • Soundcloud
  • @marcohamersma

• Malte Müller: Changing tires on a moving truck: Agile interface design

  Agile development has long become the standard way of creating web applications. Still, many teams struggle to integrate interface design and other visual disciplines into their workflow. For the past five months, we have been one of them. As we developed a web application from ground up, we had to figure out how to keep developers and designers in sync – without slowing down the project. In this talk we'd like to share our learnings on how to set up and run a successful team with a maximum of agility – under real-world conditions. Hop the truck and keep your wrenches ready.

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  Malte is an experienced web designer and co-anchorfounder of We Are Fellows, a Hamburg-based creative studio specializing in brand direction and digital design.

  • We Are Fellows
  • @electricgecko

The up.front summer break is over! On our September meetup we will have Gernot Poetsch, Max Fellmuth and Tim Lucas. Lightning talk by Georgi Kobilarov.
You found a cool new tool, technology or case that fits into the web design or frontend category? Share it with us. You are always welcome to take a slot for a lightning talk. The location remains unchanged and is hosted by the co.up co-working space providing chairs and drinks for cheap.

Follow us on Twitter for updates and RSVP on Facebook or Plancast.

• Gernot Poetsch: Designing for Magical Devices

  Gernot will talk about how we approach developing iOS and Mac applications and about our experience founding a company around it. There will be some practical design tips, too.

  Gernot is Developer and CEO at nxtbgthng GmbH, developing Mac and iOS Applications for clients such as SoundCloud.

  • nxtbgthng
  • @gernot

• Max Fellmuth: Branding in App Design

  Every company thinks about how to present their app. But is it more important to present the company’s style or to make an app that looks good on its platform? Is it more important to have a light blue status bar or to have one that doesn’t break your own guidelines. That’s what Max Fellmuth wants to discuss with you. Max spends his whole day doing UI design (and school) and will give some insights to good and also bad branding in apps.

  Max Fellmuth is a 15 year old User Interface designer from Berlin. Currently he’s working on Pistachio, a service to get more social in real life.

  • maxfellmuth.com
  • @maxfell

• Tim Lucas: CSS3 with Railscamp Tee v7

  The world’s most over-the-top tshirt order form, featuring: HTML5 audio, animation, webfonts, and -webkit trickery.

  Designer / coder / pedaller / climber. Recently relocated from Sydney to Berlin.

  • http://toolmantim.com
  • @toolmantim