Join Facebook's Product Design Manager for the new Facebook Home product as he shares how he and his team use Quartz Composer, Apple's freely available graphics tool, to design highly-interactive mobile applications. This class will be a 1 hour lecture on Quartz Composer (QC) followed by a 1 hour interactive workshop where you will make your own first composition.
Student Takeaways: Understand what Quartz Composer is, why it's useful, and how to use it to design interactions See some examples of projects Facebook has designed with Quartz Composer Make a basic composition on your own in a workshop format Feel inspired and empowered to think about expressiveness when you design
This is a class ideal for current or aspiring User Experience (UX) Designers, designers at start-ups, and web designers. An understanding of user experience or web design is suggested but not required.
Required class materials / software: – Students need to bring their laptops (Mac is required)
– Students need to download and install Quartz Composer and Kineme plugins:
Sign up for a free Apple Developer account at http://developer.apple.com
Download and install the "Graphics Tools for Xcode" package from http://www.developer.apple.com/downloads
Download and install the KinemeCore, DataTools and FileTools custom plugins from http://www.kineme.net
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