It's May and we're off to a whole lot of conferences, all in the USA:

• IA Summit 2016, in Atlanta, Georgia 
  • presenting How Do I Game Design? covering how and why games do what they do
• OSCON 2016, in Austin, Texas
  • presenting, together with Tim Nugent, Swift programming for iOS, OS X, and beyond, covering the latest in Swift
• Write The Docs 2016, in Portland, Oregon
  • presenting, together with Tim Nugent, Code the Docs, looking at live programming and documentation environments

If you're at any of these events, come say hello, email us, or tweet us @thesecretlab!

We've been at YOW! Connected in Melbourne this week. It's been pretty awesome, and we've met lots of cool people doing awesome things with mobile and IoT. We gave two presentations!

The first was the latest update to our How Do I Game Design? session, covering just enough game design theory to make you dangerous. You can watch a video of this session from OSCON 2015:

The second was called Watch This Face, and covered the philosophical design differences between Android Wear and Apple's watchOS. You can grab the slides from Speaker Deck:

And, because apparently we can't get by without giving a plug for our books, don't forget to check out our new books; you can get them for 50% off with code WKIOS9.

We've spent the last week at O'Reilly Media's fantastic OSCON conference, in Portland, Oregon. We presented a whole bunch of talks, ranging from Swift programming to Kerbal Space Program. Friends of ours, and other interesting people, also presented great stuff. Our talks were:

• Programming with Swift – Github Repository (presented by us, together with Tim Nugent)
• Cross-device, cross-platform: Designing for the entire mobile universe (Mobile Design Tutorial) – Wireframes, and Slides (presented by Paris, together with Christopher Neugebauer)
• How Do I Game Design? – Slides (presented by us, together with Tim Nugent)
• The Mün and Back: A Kerbal Tale – Slides (presented by us, together with Tim Nugent, Alasdair Allan, and Paul Fenwick)

And great talks by our friends, and other interesting people, included:

• Rolling dice alone: Board games with remote friends – Slides (presented by Tim Nugent)
• High adventures in sniffing my own metadata – Slides (presented by Josh Deprez)
• Test-driven Repair – Slides (presented by Christopher Neugebauer)
• Internet archive: Universal access. Open APIs (presented by VM Brasseur and Alexis Rossi)
• The Future is Awesome (presented by Paul Fenwick)
• Situation Normal, Everything Must Change (presented by Simon Wardley)

We also did a book signing (or two), which was as strange-but-awesome experience as ever. We're looking forward to OSCON in Amsterdam! Our photos from OSCON 2015 in Portland are on Flickr.

At OSCON this year, @chrisjrn, @desplesda and I presented a 3-hour tutorial on "Android-Fu: Awesome Apps for Ice Cream Sandwich and Beyond". We had a great turn out, and it was a lot of fun to present at OSCON for the second year in a row (last year we presented the well received Android for people who hate phones, a similar topic in a similar style).

You can also find the code from the activity on GitHub, as well as the final binary (APK) for installation on your Android 4.0+ device.

We hope you enjoyed it! Please get in touch if you have any questions or feedback!