Joey and Yuri Go to China

Shanghai.

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:37:44 -0400

Shanghai.

Bullet train to Shanghai. Our last full day in China.

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:35:03 -0400

Bullet train to Shanghai. Our last full day in China.

Morning fog.

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:48:29 -0400

Morning fog.

Day 1 Recap

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:59:21 -0400

The first full day of the quick course was absolutely fantastic. Everyone is eager to learn and the questions are great.

Yuri kicked things off with a high-level view of the state of mobile setting the course for the weekend. It was a good lesson in presentation translating but Lily, our guide and translator, was awesome.

I followed up with my presentation on “What Works for Mobile,” which covered content in the mobile space and how design carries from product to product. We rounded out the afternoon talking about finding the mobile strategy that works for you and an informal Q&A session.

Now that we have the lectures out of the way it’s on to the tech portion. We’ll discuss resources and mobile frameworks with examples for tomorrow’s sessions, which is really today for us. Then, we will finish the course by building a Web app live while collaborating with the audience. We’ve never coded live before like this so hopefully we can actually do this stuff.

Until tomorrow.

Joey and Yuri, go to China

Never worked with a backdrop before. We might try to smuggle it...

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:41:10 -0400

Never worked with a backdrop before. We might try to smuggle it home.

The presentation room. Right before kick off.

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:39:28 -0400

The presentation room. Right before kick off.

Jet lagged glamour shots.

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:38:12 -0400

Jet lagged glamour shots.

Garden view of our hotel. It was overcast and rainy for the...

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:34:04 -0400

Garden view of our hotel. It was overcast and rainy for the first course day. More to come…

The grand ceiling of the conference hotel. Absolutely stunning...

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:32:01 -0400

The grand ceiling of the conference hotel. Absolutely stunning resort. Hallways feel a bit like “The Shining” though.

More welcoming.

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:30:20 -0400

More welcoming.

We were greeted by SND posters everywhere. Awesome welcome.

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:29:05 -0400

We were greeted by SND posters everywhere. Awesome welcome.

After 17 hours in the air Yuri fit right in with the locals on...

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:25:45 -0400

After 17 hours in the air Yuri fit right in with the locals on the Shanghai subway.

Joey and Yuri go to China

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:11:14 -0400

In the next few hours @yurivictor and I (@josephjames) will board a Boeing 747-400 to Shanghai.

You can follow what unfolds here.

Operatives: @yurivictor, @josephjames
Location: Shanghai/Hangzhou, China
Mission: International mobile design, UX

- Joey and Yuri, go to China