I Owe My Soul to the Company Store

Imagine a world in which the make of car you drove determined which store you could drive to. You can only drive to one store, and you can only buy things from that store. To get things from a different store, you'd have to buy a new car or wait until a version was available in your store. So you hop in your Honda and head to the Honda store to buy bananas, a new sweater, and a new set of golf clubs for your dad.

The bananas are great, but the only sweater is mauve and your dad drives a Toyota, so he can't use those golf clubs. He needs Toyota-enabled golf clubs.

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The 5 Principles of Adaptive Design, Public Speaking, and the Importance of Meetups

Future Insights Live, Vegas is only 2 months away (where has the time gone?) And in the run up to the event we are continuing to chat with our speakers, bringing you a bit of insight into who they are, what they do and what you can expect from their session. 

This week, we are lucky enough to hear from Brad Frost. Brad is a mobile web strategist and front-end designer and is located in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. He is the creator of This Is Responsive, a collection of patterns, resources and news to help people create great responsive web experiences. He also created Mobile Web Best Practices, a resource site that lays out considerations for creating great mobile web experiences. He runs a responsive web design newsletter and also curates WTF Mobile Web, a site that teaches by example what not to do when working with the mobile web. He is passionate about mobile and is constantly tweeting and writing about it.

With such a busy schedule, we appreciate Brad taking the time out to chat. Read the interview after the jump.

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Dave Shea: Closing Keynote at Future Insights Live

We are very happy to announce that Dave Shea will be our closing keynote at Future Insights Live, Vegas 2013. Not only that but Dave will also be presenting a second session on our Mobile track. Welcome to the show Dave!

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CSS Selectors, Mobile Myths and Android Images

With the re-launch of the Future Insights Live site well and truly under way, we are continuing to confirm top-rate speakers and content. Whether you're a designer, developer or entrepreneur - there really is something for everyone.

I am happy to announce that we have 3 new speakers joining us on our Mobile and Front-end Dev Tracks. Please say a big hello and welcome to:

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Android leads rise in mobile ads

Android devices now account for more mobile advertising impressions than any other type of device, according to a new report from Opera Software. While iOS devices still own almost 42% of the revenues associated with mobile advertising, Android's strong growth throughout 2012 make it the top mobile OS for advertising impressions. 

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Introducing our brand new Advisory Panel for 2013

As Conference Producers at Future Insights we want to continue to produce top rate shows that you, the audience, want to attend. Conferences that deliver inspiring speakers, presenting future focused sessions with topics you can take away and implement into your own projects. That is why we will be doing more this year and in the future to produce awesome content, as well as give you that all important value for money. 

One of the ways we're tackling this is by appointing our brand new Advisory Panel. We've partnered up with some of the web industry's leading professionals. Speakers and creatives who will help us make our events the best they can be. We will be working together over the coming months to form cutting-edge topics across all of our events in 2013 and beyond, starting with Future Insights Live, Vegas! We are pleased to welcome;

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How to build a great UX team with Cameron Moll

We are super happy to welcome the fantastic Cameron Moll to our Future Insights Live Keynote stage! 

Cameron is a designer, speaker, author and the founder of Authentic Jobs, a targeted destination for web professionals and the companies seeking to hire them. He is also the artist behind a unique series of letterpress type posters that re-imagine buildings as if constructed entirely of type. Go check out Cameron's personal website, "a compendium of design, HTML5/CSS3, DSLR video, Apple, mobile, and other miscellaneous banter".

Using research and case studies from several companies, Cameron will discuss How to Build a Great UX team. He'll go through the key stages and give insight into how you can implement it at work. It is sure to be a truly informative and inspirational session. 

Super Early Birds are on sale for just 2 more weeks, saving you $200. Take a look at who else will be joining us and book your ticket today. 

Welcoming Robin Christopherson to FILive!

We're happy to announce that the ever popular Robin Christopherson will be joining us on stage at Future Insights Live.

Robin is Head of Digital Inclusion at AbilityNet, leading a team that is globally acclaimed as experts in accessibility auditing, disabled user testing and designing attractive websites that are both accessible and easy to use by all. Despite being blind, Robin uses a computer very effectively by relying on speech output to access the full range of mainstream software including email and the internet. He has a first-hand appreciation of the importance of good web design practice to accessibility. We were fortunate enough to interview Robin back in September 2012 on Why Accessibility is Good Business. 

Robin is back this year with a brand new session, to once again thoroughly and wonderfully blast away any preconceptions you may have about the potential of technology to be used by everybody regardless of environment or ability. As Robin says "from AI to robots, from apps to wearables, tech is truly transforming lives".

For your chance to see Robin in action, along with a whole host of other speakers and content, make sure you sign up by February 1st to save yourself $200. Register today.  

What's on offer at Future Insights Live?

With the launch of Future Insights Live last week and the announcement of some of our excellent speakers, we're working hard to culminate the perfect content for the show. We'll be releasing the full schedule early in 2013 but in the meantime you can take a look at what we have in store with our full day workshops - plus 3 day, 5 track conference. There really is something for everyone on your team!

Our tracks include...

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Future Insights Live 2013 - Call for Speakers

Our biggest conference, Future Insights Live is back and will be returning to the MGM Grand, Las Vegas on April 28 - May 2, 2013. We already have some amazing speakers lined up and now we want to hear from you!

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