Design Coding Panel Discussion
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Designer and client-side coder.
Founded Minnesota's Barcamp and together with Luke Francl put together various events and programs throughout the year aimed at catalyzing tech and design innovation and a startup culture within the state.
Co-Founder of Refactr LLC, a consultancy and product development shop focused on rapidly developing and deploying web and mobile applications.
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Norm Orstad
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Mike Bollinger is a designer, coder, entrepreneur, and explorer. He is founder of Livefront, a mobile software design & development firm, and co-founder of TECHdotMN, a media group covering technology news in Minnesota. Mike has been designing and building mobile and web software for 14 years with clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups. He is an active member of the Minnesota technology community, a regular speaker at local events, and is on the Board of Directors for two non-profit organizations: Cheerful Givers and BizLounge. In his spare time Mike is an avid world traveler, a musician, a photographer, and a super-fast-sailboat-racer-guy.
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Norm Orstad
XTHML & CSS are tools that are just as (more so?) important as Photoshop for today's web designer. Are you a designer looking to improve your marketability? Many of the hottest jobs out there have titles like: 'client-side coder', 'creative tech' and 'AJAX developer'. Come and discuss what designers should incorporate into their bag of tricks, and perhaps what is best left out.
