1st Topic: Dealing with Clients

Speaker: Rina Malonzo

• Listen to client needs – identify the real problem
• Charge with eyes open – learn the product life cycle and the work involved
• Set expections – be realistic, under promise and over deliver
• Build trust – tell the truth, don’t disappear, failure isn’t an option
• Tell clients if they are “wrong” – listen to why they don’t like a design, design for the customer, have an intelligent conversation – don’t simply say “OK”
• Get a downpayment before starting a project
• Get repeat business

Showcasing Your Portfolio

• Show your future – showcase the projects you want to attract
• Show your best works in the first 5 items
• Show at most 20 samples

2nd Topic: PhoneGap

Speaker: Chard Gonzales

PhoneGap is a free and open source framework that allows you to create mobile apps using standardized web APIs for the platforms you care about.

Source: http://phonegap.com/

3rd Topic: RCSS

Speaker: JP De Guzman

RCSS (‘Recess’ / Narcissistic name – ‘Rain CSS’) is a PHP-based CSS Processor. Popularized by known CSS pre-processors such as LESS and SCSS, RCSS aims to bring the joy and fun back in writing CSS with nifty features straight out-of-the-box. Aside from the core feature built under its hood, it can be extended via plugins that anyone can easily write and share.

Source: http://www.raincreativelab.com/rcss/