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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><h1 style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; "><h1 style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; ">MacTechGroup</h1><p style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 16px; ">The MacTechGroup holds meetings for Macintosh programmers on the first Wednesday of each month at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.</p><h3 style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 14px; text-align: center; ">Next Meeting:<br>Oct 6 2010 7:00 PM Building E51 Room 315 MIT Sloan School (Note: we are in room 315 at least until Jan.)</h3><h2 style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; "><br></h2><h2 style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Topic: Designing Tapworthy iPhone Apps</span></font></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Speaker: Josh Clark</span></font></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></span></b></span></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3500BC" face="Arial" size="4"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; ">Tapworthy apps cope with small screens and fleeting user attention to make every pixel count, every tap rewarding. Josh will share some ideas to help you: capture the elusive ingredients of irresistible mobile interfaces; craft comfortable ergonomics for fingers and thumbs; dodge the usability gotchas of handheld devices; and turn tiny-touchscreen constraints to your advantage. Along the way, you'll get behind-the-scenes glimpses into the design process of popular apps including Facebook, Twitterrific, USA Today, Things, and others.</span></b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal;"><div style="text-align: left;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Verdana, sans-serif" size="4"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; ">My bio:</span></b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; ">Josh Clark is a designer, developer, and author specializing in iPhone and iPad user experience. He's author of the O'Reilly books "Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps" and "Best iPhone Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders." Josh's outfit Global Moxie offers workshops and consulting services to help creative companies build tapworthy iPhone apps and effective websites.</span></b></div></span></font></span></font></h2><div style="font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Arial; color: rgb(53, 0, 188); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><h1 style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; "><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div></span></b></span></font></span></font></div></span></h1></span></span></div></span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Helvetica; "><div>************************<br>You can get a map showing building E51 at<br><<a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?oldstate=2&off.x=4620&off">http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?oldstate=2&off.x=4620&off</a>.<span></span>y=1640&hi=bldg_e51&zoom.x=89&zoom.y=38><br><br><br>The MacTechGrp always meets the first Wednesday of the month. (Sometimes I screw up the date of the notice, but it's always the first Wednesday)<br><br>You can get more information on the MacTechGrp and directions at <a href="http://www.mactechgroup.org/">http://www.mactechgroup.org</a>. Sometimes even the meeting announcements are up to date.<br><br>To contact the unindicted co-conspirator irresponsible for this group,<br>email <a href="mailto:owen@clipboardinc.net">owen@clipboardinc.net</a><br><br></div></span></font></div></span></h1></span></div>
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