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Secret Lab's Paris Buttfield Addison on Mobile UI, Wearables, and Apple Swift

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From OSCON 2015 in Portland, and interview with Secret Lab Pty. Ltd.'s official Mobile Nerd.

About Paris Buttfield Addison:
Paris Buttfield-Addison is co-founder of Secret Lab Pty. Ltd., leading production and design efforts in the mobile game and app development space. A frequent speaker at conferences, workshops and training sessions, Paris enjoys discussing engineering, product development, design and other facets of the mobile and game development worlds. Recent conferences include Apple Australia’s /dev/world/2012 in Melbourne (and 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), a keynote at CreateWorld Brisbane 2010 (and a speaker in 2009 and 2011), IxDA’s Interaction 11 in Boulder (March 2011), XMediaLab Location-Based Services in Malmo, Sweden (January 2011), a tutorial and a session at OSCON 2011 and OSCON 2012, linux.conf.au, and many others.

Paris is the co-author of the books iPhone and iPad Game Development For Dummies and Unity Mobile Game Development For Dummies. The books cover game development on mobile platforms such as the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Android devices in languages/frameworks such as Objective-C, CocoaTouch, Open GL ES, Unity, C#, and JavaScript. They also cover game design techniques, principles, and patterns. Recently, Paris released Learning Cocoa with Objective-C Third Edition for O’Reilly, covering iPhone and Mac development.

Paris is a highly experienced software developer, product, and project manager. Key experiences include Objective-C/Cocoa on the Macintosh and iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad platforms, Java on Blackberry, and Google Android and C# on Windows Mobile. Open GL ES and Unity are also favourites.

Paris recently spent two years leading Meebo Inc.’s mobile strategy; Meebo was one of the world’s fastest-growing consumer internet companies, and was acquired by Google in 2012. Paris is currently working on his next book, also with O’Reilly, whilst working towards the completion of his PhD in human-computer interaction, focusing on the iPad.

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