Steven Hoober
Strategist, architect, and designer for every screen
Steven Hoober is a mobile strategist, architect, and interaction designer whose 4ourth Mobile helps large companies, mobile service providers and startups understand how to exploit mobile technology to meet the needs of their users, and the goals of their organizations. He has been doing mobile and multi-channel design since 1999, working on almost every type of product, from the earliest mobile app store and the first Google mobile search for Sprint, to mobile browsers, mobile sites like Weather.com and apps for companies like Hallmark, US Bank and Cummins. Steven co-wrote the O'Reilly book Designing Mobile Interfaces, maintains a repository of mobile design and development information at the 4ourth Mobile Patterns Wiki and publishes a regular column on mobile in UX Matters magazine, amongother writing.
Current, Near Future, & Past Events
Before 2010
MobileWidgetCamp, Austin, Texas, 7 September 2008
November KCDesignCore Meeting, JCCC Reginer Campus, 5 November 2009
- Designing for Mobile Devices
- JCCC, 16 November 2009
- Ten things web designers need to know before going mobile
- Design for Mobile 2009, 21 April 2009
Weather Channel Mobile redesign after action report Slideshare
2010
- Design for Mobile 2010, Chicago, Illinois, September 2010
- Designing Device Design Deliverables
"Design for Mobile First" Panel with Scott Jenson & Luke Wroblewski
- User Centered Design, Art Institutes International, 2 November 2010
- Mobile Design in :20 Introduction to mobile for designers
2011
Kansas City UX Show & Tell 22 July 2011
Float Mobile Learning Symposium 10 June 2011, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
Video of presentation in 4 parts
Applying Patterns to Mobile Design, an O'Reilly Webcast 8 November 2011.
MoDevEast 1 December 2011, Gannett Conference Center, Mclean, Virginia
2012
Avoiding the Heuristic Solution, an O'Reilly Webcast 31 Jan 2012.
Agile UX: The What, Why, and How IXDA Toronto, 23 Feb 2012.
User Centered Execution for Mobile UX Designers, an O'Reilly Webcast 29 Feb 2012.
MoDevUX Ritz Carlton Hotel, Tysons Corner, Virginia. 20 April 2012.
D2WC - Designer, Developer, Mobile Workflow Mariott Hotel, Country Club Plaza, Kansas City, Missouri. 16-18 May 2012.
Float Mobile Learning Symposium during Techweek 2012, Chicago Merchandise Mart, 25 June 2012.
Executing for Every Screen, an O'Reilly Webcast 10 July 2012.
2013
Interaction Design BOF Yahoo! (sponsored by BayCHI and IXDA Silicon Valley), Sunnyvale, California, 17 Jan 2013.
MMConf Krakow, Poland, 18-19 April 2013.
The Trouble With All Those Boxes (Slideshare)
MoDevUX Mclean, Virginia, 9-11 May 2013
Workshop: Turning Boxes into Ecosystems: Successful multi-channel, multi-platform, multi-user design Slideshare
How People Really Hold and Touch (their phones) Slideshare
mLearnCon San Jose, California, 18-20 June 2013
- Designing UI and UX for Your Learners and Not for the Device (Panel)
Turning Boxes into Ecosystems: Designing for Ecosystems and People Instead of Screens and Pages Slideshare
How People Really Hold and Touch (their phones) Slideshare
2013 Interagency Mobile Learning Webinar Series, 16-18 July 2013 (Online)
Ask the Mobile Experts: An Interactive Panel Discussion! Video
eLearning Guild - September Online Forum, 19-20 September 2013 (Online)
How People Really Hold and Touch (their phones) Session Recording
DevLearn Mobile Learning Stage, Las Vegas, 23-27 October 2013.
- Presentation
- Panel
MoDev East, Mclean, Virginia, 12 December 2013
- Design for Fingers, Thumbs, and People
2014
Convey UX, 5-7 February, 2014 Seattle, Washington
- Tools for Mobile UX Design (90 min Mini-Workshop)
- How People Really Hold and Touch... their phones (40 min Presentation)
Longer, More Boring Bio
Steven Hoober has been documenting design process for all of his 15 year design career, and entered mobile full time in 2007 when he joined Little Springs Design. His work includes Designing by Drawing, the O'Reilly book Desiging Mobile Interfaces, and an extensive reference mobile resources website to support it. Steven has led projects on security, account management, content distribution, and communications services for numerous products, from construction supplies to hospital recordkeeping.
Steven’s mobile work has included design of browsers, e-readers, search, NFC, mobile banking, data communications, location, and OS overlays. Steven spent eight years at U.S. mobile operator Sprint, and has also worked with AT&T, Qualcomm, Samsung, Skyfire, Bitstream, VivoTech, TA Telecom, The Weather Channel, Omni Symmetry, Thwapr, FaceDial, PillPhone, Copia, IGLTA, St. Luke's Shawnee Mission Medical Center, Lowe's, Hallmark, uClick, Bank Midwest, IBT, Location Sentry, and U.S. Bank.
He consults on UX strategy and design with 4ourth Mobile, and writes a regular column on mobile for UX Matters magazine.
Other Online Resources
Slideshare and YouTube also include items on land navigation and sensors, but just ignore those.
O'Reilly Events then click the Multimedia tab
Other Photos
Mostly for me, in case I need another promotional ones. These are approved by my wife as things where I don't look stupid and am not doing something (mostly: shooting) that would offend most people.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmconf/8746504465/ Up on stage at MM Conf in Krakow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shoobe01/6454896879/ Facebook headline now.