Chris Jenkins
Chris Jenkins is Head of Interaction Design at Tribal DDB London. He is responsible for the Flex development team that relaunched Volkswagen UK earlier this year and for other clients including Guinness, Hasbro, Philips and many more. Chris trained in classical graphic design, interaction design and is a self taught programmer. He has been working with Flex since the launch of Flex 2 in 2006 and has developed a number of Flex applications including the Volkswagen site, a content management system and a flight mapping tool currently being used in over a dozen countries.

Chris is a great believer in solid development standards, design patterns and in never being satisfied with your work. He never, ever, wants to return to ActionScript 2.

Session: Styling Skinning and Designer/Developer Workflow.
Flex has long been trumpeted as being easy to style and customise, but how easy really is it? What's it like when a designer and developer meet? Do tools exist to help make their lives easier? In this session we will review the major routes to styling and skinning a Flex application, from Flex 2 to Flex 4, we will assess the benefits of each and look to the future to see how and where things might get easier.