I will be presenting at Flash Forward 2006, Seattle on Flash Lite design and all the cool new features of Flash Lite 2.0 (which is available in the Adobe Lab). I have become one of those mobile geeks that I have long feared becoming. I have multiple phones because of how they use Flash differently. My IPaq runs Flash, I have a U10 just because it runs Flash. I’ve been strongly considering getting a leapPad. You get the idea.

I will be bringing my gadgets to show how the device itself is the moving target for development. Flash does an amazing job of unifying devices so that you can do single SWF development, but how you interact with your divide still has a really strong impact on your overall application. I will talk about UI strategies for designing for multiple devices, and how to avoid some of the pitfalls of moving from web-based application design to devices.

As I ramble on, I will also talk about some of the new features made available in Flash Lite 2.0 and why they are so important to designing an application well for mobile devices. Most Flash developers I know won’t touch Flash Lite because of the Flash 4 syntax. Now that that is no longer an obstacle, hopefully the floodgates will open and we will see a lot more development in this space.

In addition to speaking, I was very pleased to be selected as a judge for this conference’s Flash Film Festival. I was a second round judge, so my work is already done, but I hope that you will go to the film festival site and participate in the people’s choice vote.