NOTE: We've moved to Space with a Soul, thanks to ISITE Design & their open house party!

June in Boston means baseball, and CSNE has a spectacular double header of its own! Karen McGrane, a 15-year industry veteran and managing partner of Bond Art + Science, and Josh Clark, author of Tapworthy and a leading advocate in mobile design strategy, will be in Boston as part of An Event Apart—and they’ve chosen to spend a special evening with Content Strategy New England as well! Join us June 19th for an incredible opportunity as Karen and Josh lay down the wisdom for 30 minutes each.  Don’t miss this chance to hear them in Boston, fresh off their “Small Screens, Big Changes” workshop tour of Europe!

Adapting Ourselves to Adaptive Content
For years, we've been telling designers: the web is not print. You can't have pixel-perfect layouts. You can't determine how your site will look in every browser, on every platform, on every device. We taught designers to cede control, think in systems, embrace web standards. So why are we still letting content authors plan for where their content will "live" on a web page? Why do we give in when they demand a WYSIWYG text editor that works "just like Microsoft Word"? Worst of all, why do we waste time and money creating and recreating content instead of planning for content reuse? What worked for the desktop web simply won't work for mobile. As our design and development processes evolve, our content workflow has to keep up. Karen will talk about how we have to adapt to creating more flexible content.

The Seven Deadly Myths of Mobile
A set of persistent myths are driving the development of mobile experiences that frustrate more than delight. "Info snacking." "The distracted, rushed mobile user." Those behaviors don't always, or even usually, exist, yet too often we design solely for those contexts, creating mobile apps as lite versions of their desktop counterparts. Instead, mobile apps should almost always do MORE than their desktop counterparts. Tapworthy author Josh Clark explains the difficult craft of designing simple interfaces for complex mobile apps, sharing techniques for future-friendly mobile efforts and, along the way, debunking seven stubborn mobile myths.

And thank you to ISITE Design, for sponsoring us to meet at Space with a Soul! This event overlaps with ISITE's open house in their new space--check it out before or after the meetup! RSVP separately: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3472045983/

This event has a $5 fee to offset refreshments and future programming.