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Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and does not give up easily. From Minsk in Belarus, he studied computer science and mathematics in Germany, discovered the passage a passion for typography, writing and design.

After working as a freelance designer and developer for 6 years, he co-founded Smashing Magazine, a leading online magazine dedicated to design and web development. Vitaly is the author, co-author and editor of all Smashing books. He currently works as editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine in the lovely city of Freiburg, Germany.

WORKSHOP: Responsive Design: Clever Tips, Tricks And Techniques

In this workshop, Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine, will present practical techniques, clever tricks and useful strategies you need to be aware of when working on any responsive design project. The techniques are borrowed from mid-size and large-scale real-life projects, such as large eCommerce projects, online magazines and Web applications.

Τhe day is dedicated to design/UX, the RWD workflow ("designing systems"), content choreography, design patterns, responsive components (tables, calendars, navigations, forms etc.) and delightful UX.

About Vitaly Friedman

Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and does not give up easily. From Minsk in Belarus, he studied computer science and mathematics in Germany, discovered the passage a passion for typography, writing and design.

After working as a freelance designer and developer for 6 years, he co-founded Smashing Magazine, a leading online magazine dedicated to design and web development. Vitaly is the author, co-author and editor of all Smashing books. He currently works as editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine in the lovely city of Freiburg, Germany.

Workshop language: English.

HKI)™ HELLOHIKIMORI™ was founded in 2004 by Nathalie Melato and David Ronhel.

Based in central Paris, on the historical ile de la cité, HKI™ is an independent design studio with cross-discipline expertise in graphic design, digital and motion graphics. The HKI™ team is a group of innovative thinkers who consider each project as a challenge and a playground for collective creativity.

As a member of the Adobe agency partner program, the team’s approach places quality above quantity.

HELLOHIKIMORI™. Create with pride. Design. Colours. Branding & visual interaction.

Having served as both a Designer and a Developer in international publication licensees and globally growing startups, Spiros Martzoukos has a strong experience in building sustainable and scalable digital products. His background includes redesigning the Greek websites of international titles such as Vogue, Men’s Health and Glamour Magazine while overseeing the Front End Development team, from the position of Head of Front End in Liberis Publications, Greece. Immediately after this period, he joined Daily Secret as Head of Design where he oversaw the Design and Front End Development of the platform, email newsletters and marketing material. Daily Secret is a daily email newsletter with the best a city has to offer and currently expands over 30+ cities worldwide.

He currently works as a Web Developer in Edenspiekermann, Berlin, one of the most respectable Design Agencies in Europe with clients such as Volkswagen, City of Amsterdam and Red Bull, pushing the envelope on defining sustainable Front End Development methodologies.

Carlos Ulloa is an interactive designer, co-founder of HelloEnjoy along with his partner Liber Aguilera.

They combine their passion for games with their love of music to create playful interactive experiences. They produce commercial work for a range of clients including Disney, Sony, Samsung, Absolut, Lexus, Infiniti and Peugeot, but they are better known for their own innovative projects using the latest 3D technologies.

Having released HelloRacer (http://helloracer.com) and helloflower (http://helloenjoy.com/helloflower), they recently launched HelloRun (http://hellorun.helloenjoy.com), a hypnotic 3D runner game focused on speed and rhythm, featuring music by indie dance band Du Tonc.

Gui Seiz is the Creative Director at Stinkdigital. A Graphic Design graduate from Falmouth College of Arts - he inexplicably left the surf for the smog, where he toiled for various publishing studios, branding & digital agencies before eventually joining Stinkdigital as Creative Director, where he's remained tightly strapped to the production company through its meteoric rise.

Gui now leads creative efforts on projects that range from interactive motion graphics to applications and digital / physical installations for clients including Google, Wrangler, Ray-Ban, Diesel, Adidas & Red Bull Music Academy.

Stinkdigital is an award-winning production agency consisting of interactive creatives, developers, animators, UX designers, interactive producers, content producers and directors who work together as a team to create innovative and engaging interactive experiences. It currently has offices in London, New York and Paris, with Sao Paulo and Berlin soon to follow.

Patrik de Jong is one of the founders and Creative Director of Artificial Rome GmbH, formerly Artificial Duck Studios. Born in 1979 in Bochum, Germany, he started out as an intern by the age of 18 and was dragged along for another 3 years by the new economy hype. Around 2001 Patrik started freelancing at various advertising agencies (W+K, HiRes!, Leo Burnett, Tribal DDB amongst others), studying Communication & Illustration Design in the meantime. In 2004 he co-founded Artificialduck Studios, teaming up with Dirk Hoffmann. Since then, the team has, in successive years, received many awards in prestigious competitions including the Cannes Lions, the Art Directors Club, the Red Dot Award and the New York Festivals.

Vassilis Alexiou is Creative Director in MRM // McCANN ATHENS the Global Digital Agency with 32 offices in 22 countries. He started his career as a designer in 1997 but his passion with Internet showed him that the creative possibilities seemed endless. In 2000 he established em(phaze), one of the first Interactive Digital Studios in Greece.

From 2005 up to now he is working as a Digital Creative Director in one of the leading advertising agencies in Greece among them UpSet (UpSet>Fwd), Cream (Rascal) and MRM // McCANN. His creations have been hosted in Web Design books (TASCHEN) and have been awarded both in Greece (16 Ermis Awards 2 Grand Web Ermis) and abroad (3 sites Favorite Site Of the Day in the FWA.com).

In his spare time he likes to experiment with Internet technologies and create Interactive games, mobile apps & web sites. One of his latest personal creations is the musical site kaseta.co.

In 2012 he joined MRM // McCANN ATHENS as a Creative Director for clients like Coca-Cola , Shell, Q Telecom, Vodafone, Amita Fun, L’Oréal, Nestea, MasterCard, BMW, Gillette and along with his inspiring team delivers superb creative work.

Rick Barraza provides design strategy for Developer Experience & Evangelism at Microsoft. He is passionate about educating, practicing, and collaborating within the community of creative technologists and experience driven development. He speaks frequently on the cultural intersection of computational design and emerging technology.

Monsters are an indie game development studio, founded in May 2012, in Athens, Greece. They strive to create memorable experiences that will grasp your heart and imagination as we open a door to new and mysterious worlds for you to explore. They are currently working on two distinct and exciting IP's that are diametrically different, Hybris and Apocalypse Cow.

Having a modern, (semi)flat structure™, the value collaboration and group effort firmly believing that everyone’s opinion is important (hint: it is also why they usually give talks together). Mutual respect and trust on each other's skills enables Monsters to concentrate on making great games and in consequence they hope to make a great company to work at.

The three Monsters are: Agelos Apostolopoulos, 3D Artist, Alex Maniotis, Game Designer/Animator and John Koumoundouros, Game Designer/Programmer.

WORKSHOP: Mobile Functional Beauty

Friday September 26, 10am - 5pm

Crafting brilliant mobile experiences, goes beyond aesthetics and pixel perfect designs; it necessitates strong understanding of interactive elements, usability patterns, gestures and mobile hardware capabilities. All these, when harmonically blended, may lead to highly emotional and delightful experiences, which will target the hearts and minds of mobile users, and will ultimately keep them engaged in a mobile application.

This workshop will guide you in the process of designing an engaging mobile application. It will help you understand all aspects of elegant and functional mobile design, recognize mobile screen limitations as well as huge hardware opportunities, and take advantage of touch interactions. Moreover, it will provide practical information on core design components of a mobile app, creating an optimised information hierarchy, respecting mobile platforms usage patterns, prototyping and evaluating your designs.

At the end of this workshop, you will be armed with practical essentials to understand how to design intuitive, focused, and aesthetically enchanting mobile interfaces.

About Trebbble

Trebbble is a mobile strategy and development firm, specializing in the delivery of brilliant mobile experiences. Trebbble partners with brands and agencies, advising them on how to get the most out of the thriving mobile landscape, and further implementing successful mobile solutions that entice users and drive engagement with brands, products or services. Founded in 2010, Trebbble has successfully implemented a series of mobile solutions for clients that expand across the US and Europe.

NOTE: It is advised that you bring your laptop to the workshop, but it’s not absolutely necessary.

Workshop language: Greek.

Arseny Vesnin is a founder of Designcollector.net blog - the first Russian and now worldwide blog dedicated to digital culture. Since 2003 it has grown to form a large network of creatives and has become a hub for inspiration on all aspects of creativity. Designcollector Network is also a platform for different artist collaboration including The Digital Decade as well as indie magazine The DCMAG. Arseny published two books on contemporary Russian illustration and was the first Russian Ambassador of Behance Creative Network.

We invited Arseny to reveal top Russian digital start-ups. The idea was to showcase the best independent online creative tools that were recognised widely like Glitche App, SLMMSK, Readymag and others. Video presentation created for Arseny by Nord Collective

WORKSHOP: User Experience Design Thinking

Friday September 26, 10am - 5pm

UX is gaining momentum as we try to develop usable, seamless websites and apps. It’s not the new black; it’s all about satisfying the cat, a.k.a. the user. The workshop will focus on a holistic, user-centric design thinking. We will follow the user through the 5 stages of Travel, on different devices and contexts, via user story mapping, innovation games and gamestorming. Loads of buzzwords (personas, wireframes, information architecture, user testing, UX principles & review) will be demystified.

*Real project included. Device-agnostic approach.

Prereqs and preparation: None. Just bring your creativity and team spirit.

About Travelplanet24

Travelplanet24.com is one of the top five e-commerce companies in Greece, founded in 2005. The company is developing high quality online booking systems as well as innovative web and mobile applications for consumers. Today, the company is among the 3 top online travel agencies in Southeastern Europe and among the 10 largest in Europe. The company operates in more than 30 markets and has offices in Athens, Bucharest and São Paulo.

NOTE: It is advised that you bring your laptop to the workshop, but it’s not absolutely necessary.

Workshop language: Greek.

WORKSHOP: Animate the Web

Friday September 26, 10am - 5pm

The web is an ever-evolving world and web animations have become part of the process and sometimes even a prerequisite. Many websites have some kind of animation, and many more have been created having complex animations in mind. Nowadays animations in websites vary from simple color and position transitions, to very complex animations including user interaction and asynchronous events.

In this workshop we will take a closer look at all kinds of animations, with live code samples, starting from CSS3 animations, pure JavaScript animations and closing with animation plugins. We will talk about the strengths and weaknesses of each solution, we will bust some myths along the way, on what we can and cannot do with animations, and finally we will cover some dos and don'ts for you to keep in mind.

About Tribal Worldwide Athens

We have a digital heart, but we know no boundaries when it comes to communication. Βesides, there is no gap there. No separation. The essence is in the idea, and ideas come in any form and shape. Every day, we face a new challenge. And the secret to success is the ability to change, to perfect and to dare. Even, if it all leads you to a mistake. As long as you keep learning from that.

NOTE: It is advised that you bring your laptop to the workshop, but it’s not absolutely necessary.

Workshop language: Greek.

WORKSHOP: Creating your portfolio. From design to the cloud in 7 clicks!

Friday September 26, 10am - 5pm

Build your personal website: an easy step-by-step guide using Azure Websites! Do you still think about that personal website that you always meant to build but never got the time? Or, if you did get the time… did you find the task much more challenging than you initially thought? If you replied ‘yes’ to any of the two previous questions, this session is for you. Come and follow a step-by-step easy guide to your website using Azure Websites! This is your chance and it’s cost free.

About: Dimitris Koutsanastassis, Partner Business Evangelist @ Microsoft Hellas

After studying Physics and Computer science, Dimitris started working for Acropolis ISP, doing low-level web development. He then worked for Accenture, leading consultant teams in various engagements/projects like Eurobank's Altamira training project, the OTE Corporate billing Operations and the OTE residential core billing Integration. The last 8 years Dimitris works for Microsoft, with his latest position being a Partner Business Evangelist, which effectively means he informs people and companies about Microsoft's Cloud platform, Azure, and whenever necessary guides them through its successful adoption.

About: Isavella Benekou, Audience Marketing Manager / Windows UX Specialist @ Microsoft Hellas

A graphic designer and illustrator in previous life, she abandoned ship to study in the UK audience development, a then obscure-turned-mainstream trade. Starting from non-profit organizations, public arts galleries and key publishing houses, she gradually shifted to working in the City for a major Investment Bank (never say never). Having said that, the last 5 years she is based back in Greece and works for Microsoft Hellas, combining her two trades, doing audience development for all technical audiences while working on familiarizing front end developers and designers with Microsoft’s unpredictably super cool Windows UI.

NOTE: It is advised that you bring your laptop to the workshop, but it’s not absolutely necessary.

Workshop language: Greek.