MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE

Lauren Liss is a professor in the Interactive Arts and Media Department. She teaches interface design, interaction theory, user experience and usability, and collaborative development. She also runs an interaction design company, *goodspark, which focuses on content management systems and usability analysis for small businesses, with a specialization in women-owned businesses and creative firms.

Liss received her Masters in Education, Learning Design and Leadership, New Learning, from the University of Illinois, where she studied knowledge acquisition and educational theory through the lens of usability and technology.

Course: UX/UI Design Essentials

Austin McCasland is a VR/AR product designer and UX developer based out of San Francisco. He espouses a design-focused approach to VR/AR development and believes that having a solid process for creating products can give anyone superpowers. Most recently, Austin designed, developed and released a mobile AR application (Paint Space AR) which was named one of the best iOS apps of 2017 by Apple. In his spare time you can find Austin in the woodshop, playing video games or hunting down good music.

Austin’s undergraduate degree is in interactive sculptural new media, and he has a Masters degree in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University.

Austin’s Work:
https://yvr.design/sharing-vr-creations-with-the-world-db3e7d12b34
https://yvr.design/creating-a-great-ar-painting-experience-paint-space-edc1b7ec43a4
http://www.austastic.com/

Course: Developing Augmented and Virtual Reality Apps

Matthew Steinke is an artist, musician, designer and developer. Over the past two decades, he has produced interactive content for Atmosphere Proximity, RGA, Viacom, Ogilvy, The Girl Scouts of America, The Fun Fun Fun Fest, Charles Schwab and Cramer Krasselt among others. His professional practice reflects his broad experience in a variety of roles including programmer, animator, designer, engineer and project manager.

Steinke has also produced several experimental media artworks involving robotic musical instruments for installations and performances for which he has toured across Europe, Canada and the US. His personal work and research explores the intersection of artificial intelligence, psychology and narrative as a way to generate new forms of machine behavior for musical expression.

Course: App Design with Swift Programming