Grant Skinner
Bio
Grant Skinner is an internationally recognized leader in the field of interactive development.
His body of work spans experimental interaction, applications, games, websites, installations, embedded devices, and mobile, with a recent focus on projects that span multiple environments.
Grant fuses his experience with design, user experience, development, and business with a driving creativity to produce projects that push the boundaries of interactive technologies.
While building gskinner.com into a leading interactive production shop, Grant has worked with a wide range of high calibre clients including Google, Microsoft, Adobe, AOL, BBC, Salesforce, Nissan, GE, EA, CNN, and DirectTV.
Most recently, Grant has been working on bringing Flash-like interactive experiences to the open web via tools & libraries such as CreateJS, Zoe, and the Flash Pro Toolkit For CreateJS.
Session
ADHD FTW, LOL!
How do you leverage a short attention span or fragmented work day into creative output? Grant will share a diverse range of work he's built in small sprints of focused, inspired development.
This includes experiments, physical computing, mobile, multi-screen, tools, games, and libraries for Flash, AIR, HTML5, and Android. He'll discuss his strategies for wrangling a wandering mind and arranging an overloaded schedule to produce radical new... that cat video is friggin' hilarious!
