Nick Butcher
Nick is a Android Design/Developer Advocate in Google's London office where he helps designers and developers to create sublime mobile apps. ”
He has been making Android apps for over 5 years and has worked with hundreds of companies to help them to make the most of the platform. Nick is a frequent contributor to the official android developers blog, conference speaker, host of Google Developers shows (Android Design in Action, Android Office Hours, DevBytes), co-author of the 'Android Design for Developers' Udacity course and shares pro-tips on Google+ and Github. Nick has worked on Google apps such as Google I/O and Android Device Manager. Recently Nick has been focused on helping designers and developers to understand and create beautiful material design apps.
Talks I've Given
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Vector Workflows
Featuring Nick Butcher
Vector assets are lightweight and sharp on every screen size but working with them can be complicated. Android doesn’t directly support SVG; potentially leading to conversion and ownership issues. During this talk Nick will share with you what designers and developers need to know about Android’s...
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Animatable
Featuring Nick Butcher
A deep dive on designing and building animations and transitions to bring beautiful, meaningful motion into your apps.
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Meaningful motion
Featuring Nick Butcher and Benjamin Weiss
Material design emphasizes using meaningful motion within your UIs. But when should you use it and how can it be implemented?
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App Clinic (Design Zone - Hyde Park)
Featuring Nick Butcher, Leonie Brewin, Wiebe Elsinga, Mark Allison, Pascal Welsch, Maria Neumayer and Sebastiano Poggi
Find the Design Zone in Hyde Park - the Exhibition Floor @ Droidcon London 2015!
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Coffee Break, Networking, Q&A Clinics, Games and Demos
Featuring Sebastiano Poggi, Maria Neumayer, Pascal Welsch, Mark Allison, Wiebe Elsinga, Leonie Brewin and Nick Butcher
Join us on the exhibition floor over lunch for your chance to chat with leading experts and discuss upcoming trends and technologies. We have an awesome range of clinics taking place across four zones, as well as a number of amazing raffle prizes to give away at sponsor booths.
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Papercraft: Material design & implementation
Featuring Nick Butcher and Chris Baness
A deep dive into the Material design system for both designers and developers. Covering the design principles, applying them to your app and how to build them using the new Andoid-L APIs.
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Excellence in the Android User Experience
Featuring Nick Butcher
Nick Butcher, one of Google's Developer Advocates for Android, will talk about UI for tablet & phone + TV.
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