Facebook Presents: Designer's Intro to Quartz Composer and Origami

San Francisco Campus

GA SF
225 Bush Street, 5th Floor (East Entrance)
San Francisco CA 94104

Past Locations for this Workshop

Facebook Presents: Designer's Intro to Quartz Composer and Origami | San Francisco

San Francisco Campus

GA SF
225 Bush Street, 5th Floor (East Entrance)
San Francisco CA 94104

Past Locations for this Workshop

About this workshop

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.

Takeaways

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

Prereqs & Preparation

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:

  1. Sign up for a free Apple Developer account at http://developer.apple.com

  2. Download and install the "Graphics Tools for Xcode" package from http://www.developer.apple.com/downloads

  3. Download and install the KinemeCore, DataTools and FileTools custom plugins from http://www.kineme.net

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