Interactive design is not just a passive experience, but must be one that draws in and engages your audience - repurposing complex information and ideas into intuitive layouts and mechanisms that excites audiences. Incorporating best practices and techniques in immersive graphic design, motion design, navigation, and user experience, this master class focuses on helping you build magnetic experiences audiences tell their friends about, and go viral.

In this video you will learn a versatile method for cropping images in Adobe Illustrator CS6 and CS5. Using opacity masks allows you to retain the area of the image you cropped out, modify the clipping path later, and use complex blending modes, transparencies, and knockout groups.

See how InDesign CC is faster, better, and sharper, with under-the-hood improvements and native 64-bit support that makes working on even the most complex documents speedier. And discover how new features make it easier to produce high-quality EPUB files, giving you greater control over the table of contents and CSS export, and making CSS editing simpler.

It's the end of hard matte lines. Keep the details when separating complicated foreground elements like frizzy hair or motion-blurred edges from complex backgrounds. This means you can create natural-looking composites without keying specially shot footage.

See how you can create complex organic designs quickly by painting with a brush made from a photo in Illustrator CC.

Rufus Deuchler, Adobe worldwide evangelist, shows you how to create complex organic designs quickly by painting with a brush made from a photo in Illustrator CC.

Featurette: Wow your audience with sight and sound. Export your content in full high-definition video and audio — even from complex timelines or script-driven animations — all without dropping frames.

Join James Williamson, senior author at lynda.com, for an exploration of how the robust tools and support for HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery in Adobe Dreamweaver make it easy to develop compelling user interfaces that work seamlessly across devices and screen sizes. During this session, you'll learn how to:• Start with clean, accessible code and progressively enhance your interfaces• Take advantage of jQuery integration in Dreamweaver• Use CSS3 support in Dreamweaver to rapidly build complex styles• Add interactivity through CSS and jQuery• Design interfaces that guide users through the experience

Learn how to use Adobe Creative Suite and Creative Cloud along with Adobe's enterprise content management solution, Adobe CQ, to design for the enterprise. Enterprise doesn't need to be scary for web designers, conjuring up images of ugly websites, greenscreens, and complex CRM systems. Over the years, these systems have changed, and many have moved to web-based solutions. In this session, you'll learn:• The basics of Adobe CQ and Adobe's ECM solution• How to work with Creative Suite tools to develop and edit assets for use with Adobe CQ and Adobe CQ Digital Asset Management (DAM)• How to utilize the creative workflow, leverage Adobe Creative Cloud, and create and edit assets stored in CQ DAM

Join Stephen Gates, Vice President and Creative Director of Global Brand Design at Starwood Hotels and Resorts, and Stephen Santiago, Director of Mobile & API at Starwood Hotels and Resorts, to learn the design and development secrets behind building Starwood's mobile roadmap. See how Starwood continues to launch award-winning, multiplatform mobile apps and mobile websites.The session will cover:• How to create a successful roadmap for mobile apps and mobile websites• Techniques for getting buy-in on your mobile roadmap at your company• Design and development insights learned from creating complex iOS and Android apps for smartphones and tablets, including the creation of Starwood's pioneering state-aware UI design concept• Insights learned from Starwood's work to completely redesign its mobile websites for nine brands in nine languages