Speakers
Philip Fierlinger
Workshop Fake It, Till You Make It
How do you go from a brilliant idea to a product on the market? First, you fake it. Bring your concept to life quickly and cheaply.
Rapid prototyping is the perfect way to design and pitch your app. This workshop presents a range of realworld prototypes, created for startups and major brands, covering a variety of different methods.
The workshop provides hands-on lessons for building rapid prototypes. Whether your product will be built in HTML, Xcode or any other technology, you’ll learn how to quickly create convincing prototypes using Flash (no experience in Flash necessary).
Flash prototyping is a very simple yet extremely powerful technique that combines the best of paper prototyping, wireframes and HTML prototyping. The method you’ll learn dramatically increases the speed and agility of the design and development cycle, while decreasing documentation to almost zero.
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Bio
Philip Fierlinger is a co-founder and Head of Design at Xero, the popular online accounting platform. Philip oversees the design of all things Xero: product, marketing, branding and overall customer experience. In addition to customers tweeting that Xero makes accounting almost fun, it’s received multiple Webby Awards and funding from Peter Thiel.
In 1994, Philip founded Turntable, a design firm in San Francisco responsible for groundbreaking interactive projects, with a diverse range of technology and rockstar clients including Apple, Palm, Sony, Dreamworks, Tori Amos and Beastie Boys.