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Missed some of our #uotablettalk guest speaker recaps? Read them all here.

On Thursday May 24, Adobe Certified Instructor Martha Leinroth Skyped in to OR to talk about her work as a Print and Digital Publishing Consultant at Time, Inc. In 2010 she served on the team that developed Time’s first digital magazine for the iPad and in 2011 assisted Time in creating iPad and Android-based tablet versions of their umbrella publications.

Check out our Storify article to get the full scoop, including tweets from the Q&A session.

On Tuesday May 22, famed interactive designers and self-proclaimed 'digital dandies' Kirk and Nate Mueller Skyped in from New York to OR Magazine for 'virtual tea' as part of our 'Tablet Talk' guest speaker series. We were extremely charmed, to say the least. The Brothers Mueller were part of a small creative team that helped launched the first iPad edition of Martha Stewart Living (Boundless Beauty) which featured a stop-motion cover. The issue won the Tablet App of the Year from the Society of Publication Designers and the cover was named one of the top 10 magazine covers of the year by Time, Inc. Recently, the Brothers helped Newsweek launch its new iPad app.

Check out our Storify article to get the full scoop, including tweets from the Q&A session.

On Thursday May 10, interactive designer Johannes Henseler Skyped in to OR from Düsseldorf, Germany to talk about his work as part of our Tablet Talk guest speaker series. Henseler currently runs Secrets & Happiness of Digital Publishing, a blog dedicated to exploring digital publishing from an editorial design perspective. In 2011, he published Done Magazine for the iPad, which won a 2011 Adobe MAX Award in the competition's digital publishing category.

You can also find him on Vimeo. Check out our Storify article to get the full scoop, including tweets from the Q&A session.

We're currently hosting 'Tablet Talk,' a guest speaker Q&A series that aims to spark conversations between students and mobile publishing professionals about designing and conceptualizing interactive stories and features for mobile devices. 

Watch this video to see how Communications Manager Maya Lazaro is using various social media platforms to engage with guest speakers and promote the series.

Look for the hashtag #uotablettalk to follow the conversations on Twitter.

On Tuesday May 8, lainformacion.com Digital Narratives Director Chiqui Esteban Skyped in from Madrid, Spain to talk to our class about creating interactive stories as part of our 'Tablet Talk' guest speaker series. As Digital Narratives Director at lainformacion.com, Esteban is responsible for creating stories using infographics, video, text, and whatever other means he feels appropriate. In the past he has has done iPad app consulting work for Le Monde, Paris Match, Elle á Table, Corriere della Sera, Gazetta dello Sport, and the International Herald Tribune. He has also made interactive graphics for Univision and CNN en Español.

Check out our Storify article to get the full scoop, including tweets from the Q&A session.

On Thursday May 22, brothers Kirk and Nate Mueller will be Skyping in to OR as part of our 'Tablet Talk' guest speaker series to talk about their work designing interactive apps for tablet devices. The Brothers Mueller were part of a small creative team that helped launched the first iPad edition of Martha Stewart Living (Boundless Beauty) which featured a stop-motion cover. The issue won the Tablet App of the Year from the Society of Publication Designers and the cover was named one of the top 10 magazine covers of the year by Time, Inc. Recently The Brothers helped Newsweek launch its new iPad app.

To learn more about Kirk and Nate Mueller, visit their website.

On Thursday May 3, Alessandro Bonora of bigFIG Skyped in from the company's production office in Cape Town, Africa to talk to our class about the joys and challenges of designing interactive publications.

bigFIG is an interactive design and publishing firm based out of London. The company strongly believes that digital publishing is the future of media, and is responsible for creating Safari Interactive Travel Magazine for Africa Geographic, as well as PLANET Digimag for WWF International. As bigFIG's Art Director, Bonora had a lot of advice about workflow and incorporating advertising content into publications.

Below are screen grabs from Safari's latest issue. Check out our Storify article to get the full scoop, including tweets from the Q&A session.