Date/Time: February 23rd, 2012 at 6:00PM
Location: Southwest Tennessee Community College
5983 Macon Cove
MAC Building - Room 179
Memphis, TN 38134
Presentation - Smart / Responsive Mobile Design
Designing for touch interactions on an ever-growing array of devices and screen sizes can be daunting. We will discuss efficient ways to focus mobile features, tips for designing for touch and approaches to implement a “responsive” design that adapts to any screen size.
Speaker - SHILOH BARNAT > Director of User Experience for Lokion Interactive
Shiloh Barnat leads people-oriented processes to produce more usable interactive products. She brings a deep understanding of user-centered online experience design processes and broad experience with online strategy, audience analysis, user testing, and information architecture.
Shiloh’s web career began in 1995 at the University of San Francisco, where she pioneered distance education by introducing and supporting online certification programs through the College of Professional Studies at McClaren School of Business. Later she applied her growing skills proactively to the nonprofit sector as a technology consultant for
CompuMentor.org, managing their first completely online volunteer mentorship program and conducting technology audits for strategic planning.
Relocating to Memphis in 1999, Shiloh has provided strategy consulting, audience analysis, persona creation, usability consulting and/or direct user testing for FedEx, SkyTel, International Paper, AutoZone, Cellular South, Ducks Unlimited, First Tennessee/First Horizon, Viking Range, Rhodes College, and The Seam.
She has managed information architecture and interface design strategies for numerous Web sites, intranets and extranets as well as CMS implementations, eCommerce systems, online banking, education portals, rich Flash-based demos, and complex applications.
Shiloh holds a BA in Philosophy and Political Science from Tulane University and an MA in Sociology from the University of New Orleans.