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

Learn techniques for making your images look their best as quickly as possible, including everything from instant optimizing and enhancing to applying custom actions and presets. Jack Davis, award-winning author and Photoshop Hall-of-Famer, is your host for this high-impact session.Davis will demonstrate:• Powerful one-click solutions for on-time, on-budget design and photography• Essential techniques for using Photoshop to create great-looking images for the web and print• How to put Davis' motto into action: "If you do it once, figure out how to never have to do it again!"

Learn how discovering and telling stories that are engaging, uplifting, and inspiring can be the foundation for your designs, and how your designs can bring these stories to life. Jake Lefebure, cofounder of the award-wining D.C. creative firm Design Army, will share how to tell today's stories with tomorrow's technology, taking those stories from print to new media. In this lively, interactive session, you'll learn: • How to capture your ideas in simple drawings• A process for taking those concepts from sketch to design, and then to production• Techniques to leverage your core design skills across new and emerging media

Discover Adobe Story, a writing powerhouse and a fantastic project management tool to use in your next production. Join award-winning scriptwriter Maxim Jago as he takes you on a journey from concept to completion using Adobe Story. In this session, you'll learn:• Important industry-standard layout rules and how Story makes them easy to follow• How to use script metadata to help with pre-production and production• How to integrate scripts into post-production

See how you can transform your images and designs using painting technologies, tools, and techniques in Adobe Photoshop. Jack Davis, award-winning author and Photoshop Hall-of-Famer, will share essential techniques ranging from the slight and subtle to the bold and extreme. In this session, Davis will cover:• The world of painting possibilities in Photoshop• The features and technologies available in the latest version of Photoshop• Killer tips, tricks, and techniques for quickly and easily creating stunning images both from a blank canvas and from an image • New painting ideas that are sure to add to your Photoshop skills• Step-by-step methods for creating amazing images and designs

Check out the awards ceremony from the 2011 MAX conference in Los Angeles CA.

Watch Jack Davis, award-winning author and Photoshop Hall of Famer, as he demonstrates essential techniques for using Adobe Photoshop CS5 to create great-looking images for the web and print. Learn techniques for making images look their best, fast, including everything from instant optimizing and enhancing of images to making Smart Filter recipes, custom actions, and tool presets. Davis's motto: If you do it once, figure out how to never have to do it again! Come learn powerful one-click solutions for on-time, on-budget design and photography.

Learn essential techniques for imitating natural painting effects like impasto oils, translucent watercolors, and textured pastels with the new Mixer Brush in Photoshop CS5. Jack Davis, award-winning artist, author, and Photoshop Hall-of-Famer, will use real-world projects to show how quickly and easily you can enhance and interpret your images and designs — from subtle tweaks to complete expressive transformations. You'll walk away with new painting solutions that are sure to change what you thought was possible in Photoshop and in your own work.

Join Rob Roskin, manager of video delivery for MTV Networks, for a look behind the scenes at what it takes to produce world-class broadcast events like the MTV Video Music Awards and E3. Roskin will have special guest Ben Rolling from AEG Digital Media offer his own lessons from live events like "American Idol," the Grammy Awards, and MAX.

Watch Jack Davis, award-winning author and Photoshop Hall-of-Famer, as he demonstrates essential techniques for using Photoshop CS5 to create great-looking images for the web and print. Learn techniques for making images look their best, fast, including everything from instant optimizing and enhancing of images to making Smart Filter recipes, custom actions, and tool presets. Davis's motto: If you do it once, figure out how to never have to do it again! Come learn powerful one-click solutions for on-time, on-budget design and photography.