Zurb Write Up

I went to the Zurb conference in Harrisburg a couple of months ago. I was disappointed that I spent money and wasted time going to this conference. I do not have anything bad to say about the speaker or what he spoke about. However, all of the information that he talked about was completely irrelevant to me. The main thing he talked about was how mobile devices are starting to play a bigger part in our lives so we need to create websites and apps that work well with those devices. He spoke about responsive design which ensures that your design will work everywhere. There are 3 key components to Responsive design. It has to be a flexible, fluid grid, include media styles that flex or scale, and media queries that adapt to the page. This kind of design is pushing the web forward. Designers are struggling with optimization though. Responsive design also is not as fast as native apps. Kelly spoke about mobile one which is a program that where everything is preset for mobile devices. He also described the Zurb design process which includes 5 steps. These steps are define, ideate, prototype, build, and analyze. I thought that the Matt Kelly did a very good job with the presentation and I do believe that people could have really learned from it if the information was relevant to them but I am not quite at the level where I should be attending conferences on this information yet.