In an increasingly fragmented landscape, how do you navigate through all of the new technology and keep your message from getting lost in a sea of communication? This discussion focuses on ways to utilize emerging techno…

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Aaron Smith, Glenn Stansbury, Maani Safa, Thomas Fellger

Disasters do not discriminate. In 2010 a massive earthquake ravaged the urban fabric of Port au Prince; in 2011 rural fishing villages were flattened by a tsunami in Northern Japan and in 2012 one of the greatest cities …

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Cameron Sinclair

Insights from the Poynter Institute's major study of news and storytelling on tablets. The study explores the way that elements of touch, gesture, interactivity and position come together to create engaging, satisfying j…

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Dave Stanton, Mario Garcia, Sara Quinn

The web world is agog over game design as the next silver bullet, slapping badges and progress bars over every annoying thing they wish users to do. As users tire of everything looking like a game, "gamification" has com…

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Christina Wodtke

The Appys honor extraordinary Applications on all platforms: mobile, social and web-based. The Appy Awards are unbiased to App's format, platform or device; instead we focus on the best apps in a diverse range of categor…

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Steve Smith

Typography on the web is going from strength to strength. All web browsers proudly boast their typographic capabilities as CSS 3 continues to evolve & stabilise. We’ve seen the arrival of some fantastic fonts specificall…

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Richard Rutter

As the number of companies utilizing the cloud, smartphones and API's grow, the demand for skilled programmers is increasing but there is a problem. There aren't enough developers to go around. By 2018, there will be m…

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, Noah Kagan, Sasha Laundy

RSVP Required - All too often writing HTML and CSS is an afterthought. Its the work that happens after design is finalized and the product has been developed. Its a necessary task in the process to building a website. Wr…

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Darby Frey, Shay Howe

RSVP Required - Why doesn’t your software look and work right? Early designs painted an interface paradise filled with exotic features, but something went terribly awry and nothing quite works the way you thought it woul…

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Hendrik Mueller, Ian Gunn, Jonathan Yu, Vance Vagell

RSVP Required - Over half of TV consumers today use their mobile devices while watching TV (Pew Research, http://goo.gl/dkbXf). With the attention shifting away from the big screen, new ways to keep TV viewers engaged ar…

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Horia Ciurdar, Jarek Wilkiewicz, Les Vogel, Ossama Alami

Cleantech is dead. Investors have dropped out and entrepreneurs are more interested in making apps. What happened? Why didn't the same spirit and capital that created the internet grow renewable energy and other "clean t…

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David Merkoski

This book examines the user-centered design process from the perspective of the design student and design professional. It introduces the different UX players, outlines the user-centered design process from user research…

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Jason Nunes

This book examines the user-centered design process from the perspective of the design student and design professional. It introduces the different UX players, outlines the user-centered design process from user research…

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Jason Nunes

The next generation of technology is here: mobile, powerful, versatile, and ubiquitous. User experience has never mattered more. Android has done extensive research and thinking into what good design means in the 21st …

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Helena Roeber, Rachel Garb

Everyday technology is hurtling at warp speed into science fiction. Mobile's at the forefront, but what's next? At the hazy edges of the tech universe, emerging trends hint at the future of connected devices and even a r…

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Josh Clark

A new addition to SXSW Interactive in 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new…

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Brynn Evans

Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, will discuss: "Open Web Platform: Hopes and Fears". Berners-Lee is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the web standards consortium. He is an ad…

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Tim Berners-Lee

Glue. That’s what we are. The glue that holds it all together. Not to be overzealous, but we’re becoming more and more aware of our worth. And other UXers should, too. Back in the days of yesteryear, who knew what UX was…

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Barbara Luciani, Samantha Rosa

Thomas Phinney presents his clues and conclusions from several cases he has been called into as a font detective, including a forged will, a seemingly fake rabbi, and documents about President Bush’s National Guard servi…

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Thomas Phinney

There's a mobile browser war going on, and HTML5, despite being years away from full implementation, is playing an increasingly large role in mobile browsing and its future. But how? What role does it play? Which browser…

Intermediate

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David Dehghan, Jay Sullivan, Mike Taylor, Seth Rosenblatt

Computing has made tremendous progress over the past two decades. However, to this day, users are presented a series of elements and choices for how to navigate a digital environment. This is predominantly driven by the …

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David Holz, Jessica Lessin, Michael Buckwald

Applying Scrum changes the day-to-day reality of agencies dramatically. If done well, it improves output and profitability like crazy. However, for agencies, Scrum dynamics are radically different from in-house design a…

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Pieter Jongerius

Applying Scrum changes the day-to-day reality of agencies dramatically. If done well, it improves output and profitability like crazy. However, for agencies, Scrum dynamics are radically different from in-house design a…

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Pieter Jongerius

Pieter Jongerius will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Get Agile!: Scrum for UX, Design & Development” following his Book Reading session. Pieter Jongerius is a partner at the Dutch design agency Fabr…

RSVP Required - Calling all hackers: Join the Amazon Web Services developer team for a deep dive into building sophisticated web and mobile apps on Amazon Web Services. We’ll discuss best practices for availability, scal…

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Simone Brunozzi

Responsive web design has hit the scene like a bomb, and now designers everywhere are showing off to their bosses and peers by resizing their browser windows. "Look! The site is squishy!" While creating flexible layouts…

Intermediate

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Brad Frost

RSVP Required - I have used Apple's Keynote for mocking up UI while working at Apple and at Netflix. I use Keynote 95% percent of the time and use Photoshop and Illustrator on occasion but only for specific tasks. Keynot…

Intermediate

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Joel Beukelman, Ted Boda

RSVP Required - The user interface is changing. So, lets adapt to those changes. HTML5 makes new and exciting web interfaces possible. We'll look at some examples and do a step-by-step code walkthrough of some of the mos…

Advanced

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Matt Null

Jim Henson started working as a puppeteer in 1954, a fair 40-50 years before many of us even considered User Experience as a career. He did, however, take it upon himself to apply many of the core principals that UX Desi…

Beginner

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Russ Unger

RSVP Required - If you're running a tech start-up, it's essential that you familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of web development. Ultimately knowing how to "talk to the talk" will help you communicate better with…

Beginner

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Ben Sigman, Chris Castiglione

RSVP Required - Extraterrestrial travel is within our (civilian) grasp and it’s time for designers, dreamers, and wannabe astronauts to come together to imagine the future. Using pen and paper, we’ll sketch our ultimate …

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Jill Nussbaum

Chaos is inevitable in any badly designed system. With an increasing number of websites building on real world communities and user generated contributions, the importance of good layout design and quality control cannot…

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Henrik Berggren, Jan Senderek, Natalie Downe, Nico Perez

Executive Creative Director, R/GA Austin. Since arriving in America and R/GA four years ago, Paul has played a key role in marrying the various agency offerings with compelling storytelling. Crafting successful campaign…

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Paul Dery

It says a lot about your company when your CEO is also your Creative Director. Q draws from his expertise in design, film making, and management, honed after 15 years as a leader in the technology industry. His purpose i…

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Q Manning

Anything compelling has to have a human element to it, but humans are inherently complex, and therefore unpredictable. The most successful innovations often seem counter-intuitive when they are introduced, but that's wha…

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Baratunde Thurston, Paul Valerio

Mike Rohde shares the journey of writing and illustrating The Sketchnote Handbook.…

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Mike Rohde

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Mike Rohde

MIKE ROHDE will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “The Sketchnote Handbook” following his Book Reading session. MIKE ROHDE has a passion for simple and usable design solutions. That passion, along with …

The next generation of HTML and CSS offer powerful new features for creating content that is graphically rich. It's never been easier to leverage animation, motion graphics, and sophisticated graphical techniques when bu…

Beginner

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Paul Trani

Brad Nunnally will appear at the SX Bookstore with his co-authors to sign copies of “Designing the Conversation: Techniques for Successful Facilitation”.…

Dan Willis will appear at the SX Bookstore with his co-authors to sign copies of “Designing the Conversation: Techniques for Successful Facilitation”.…

Russ Unger will appear at the SX Bookstore with his co-authors to sign copies of “Designing the Conversation: Techniques for Successful Facilitation”. Russ Unger is a User Experience professional in the Chicago area. He…

Many believe the future of design is in screens. They're wrong. It's time to kill the interface. Because when we think only in screens, we design based upon a model that is inherently unnatural, inhumane, and has diminis…

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Golden Krishna

Responsive design is a rapidly evolving concept, covering a wide range of design and development techniques that vary depending on who you ask and when. In this session we will examine Adobe Edge Reflow, the first compr…

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Alex Morris, Jacob Surber

RSVP Required - Pick an element, any element. Style it. Manipulate it. No IDs. No classes. No jQuery necessary. We’ll learn all the new features of selectors tin CSS and JavaScript hat enable you to select this DOM node,…

Intermediate

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Estelle Weyl, Tab Atkins

RSVP Required - General purpose web frameworks don’t usually make for great tools when trying to build fast and scalable Hypermedia APIs. What we need is a dedicated API framework -- one that natively speaks HTTP, suppor…

Intermediate

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Eric Marden

RSVP Required - You want to write a bunch of mobile applications, but you dread learning the Objective-C of iOS, the flavors of "bastardized Java" for Android and BlackBerry, or the C#/Visual Basic of Windows Phone. Neve…

Intermediate

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David Becher

Mastering RWD is difficult enough, doing it with a WordPress theme and no knowledge its intended use or future content is even harder. In this talk you’ll learn how to create WordPress themes that will maintain their res…

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Jesse Friedman

RSVP Required - Bill will help attendees develop an HTML5 app optimized for mobile devices. HTML5 apps are web apps on steroids, providing awesome touch interactions, hardware-accelerated graphics, and the ability to wo…

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Bill Fisher

RSVP Required - Learn the essential Ruby and Rails needed to transform your designs into working web applications. Doing so will inform your design decisions, improve your ability to collaborate with back-end developers,…

Beginner

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Jeff Cohen, Neal Sales-Griffin, Raghu Betina

Design to support behavior change is getting increased exposure as technology has allowed products and services to have a more pervasive role in people's lives. What impact does the ability to passively collect data and …

Intermediate

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Chris Risdon

Doug Schepers (@shepazu) is a developer and standards expert at W3C, and the W3C Developer Relations Lead. He's particularly interested in webapps, SVG, and education. He has spoken at well-known international conference…

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Doug Schepers

Get together with other typography experts / lovers for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry.…

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Jim Kidwell

The web is not a fixed width. So if the medium is fluid, should the process be fixed? Fireworks and Photoshop are not flexible enough to demonstrate media queries, button and menu states, HTML5 and JavaScript behaviors, …

Intermediate

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Aaron Gustafson, Samantha Warren, Steve Fisher, Yesenia Perez-Cruz

Adobe Creative Cloud has been an exceptional way to deliver the latest in innovation to members as soon as it's developed. And Adobe hasn't slowed down in delivering this innovation. In this session see the latest exclus…

Beginner

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Paul Trani

Our daily lives are peppered with annoyance - someone, somewhere was responsible for designing that annoyance and sending off into the world to flourish and vex. It seems preposterous that so many products and services e…

Beginner

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Jonty Sharples

A new addition to SXSW Interactive in 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new…

Beginner

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Ted Rheingold

RSVP Required - By now you know that Node.js is the most downloaded repository on GitHub, but you are not sure how to get started. How do you set up the servers, what's an optimal development environment, and...what exac…

Intermediate

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Jim Snodgrass

RSVP Required - The wireframing and prototyping techniques, tools and software we use have a legacy problem. Much of it is very button-centric. And many of the great apps, games and experiences we create live on touch de…

Intermediate

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Sara Summers

RSVP Required - Experience design is hard. Design compositions are inconsistent with the final rendered product and interactions are complicated to communicate. As an experience design lead on an HTML/CSS/JS based applic…

Intermediate

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Garth Braithwaite

This panel of designers, consultants and product owners will discuss the challenges they've faced as more of more projects begin incorporating responsive design. These industry leaders will share their perspective on ho…

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Emily Wengert, Jacob Surber, Sophie Shepherd, Trent Walton

Setting up the dev shop at a startup is really hard. As the technical leader of the shop, it feels overwhelming. As the non-technical leader, it's scary because you have no idea if things are being done "right". I will…

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Scott Porad

In the last few years there has been an explosion of build tools to help JavaScript developers create complex applications. Grunt.js, the Rails 3 Asset Pipeline, Smoosh and Browserify are few examples available to organ…

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Ben Alman, Jacob Thornton, Paul Irish, Ryan Stevens

Many product ideas require hardware for sensing, user interaction, etc. Until recently, it has been difficult & expensive to bring the hardware component of a product to market. Developments such as low cost rapid prot…

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Denis Bohm

Storytelling. Creativity. Emotion. These elements have forever been the backbone of marketing. But now, thanks to the digital revolution, the creative industry finds itself balancing two very different approaches. While …

Intermediate

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Matthew Langie

The internet of things (IoT) started off as a crazy scifi dream but its basic building blocks: ultra cheap computing and swarm computation are slowly working their way into existing product categories. This tends to conf…

Intermediate

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Scott Jenson

Content first is fast becoming the favoured mantra of the smart web designer, but yet the industry is struggling to keep up. How do you define, gather and manage real content so your designs better reflect the intent of …

Beginner

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Alex Morris

Leonardo Da Vinci is the archetype of a Rennaisance man--artist, mathematician, sculptor, scientist, writer, and more. As an artist, Leonardo produced a very small sample of great work that included the Mona Lisa and th…

Beginner

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Brian Sullivan

Imagine a developing country where a bandage not only heals a patient’s wound, but also tracks data like bacteria levels and blood pressure with a built-in sensor that can be monitored real-time by a doctor. Visits to th…

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Kerry Mcguire Balanza

Why are maps engaging, emotional? If you think about a significant moment in your life (your first day of school, your wedding day, or your first broken heart), wherever that special moment happened, digital maps can acc…

Beginner

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Brandon Kleinman, Carlos Cuesta

In an increasingly fragmented landscape, how do you navigate through all of the new technology and keep your message from getting lost in a sea of communication? This discussion focuses on ways to utilize emerging techno…

Intermediate

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Glenn Stansbury, Maani Safa, Nicholas Oliver, Thomas Fellger

Doing great design is not enough; we need to *lead* our design efforts. We need to negotiate tradeoffs with business partners, design in the context of other product development processes, and work with business partners…

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Craig Peters

As User Experience professionals continue to tackle the challenges of designing for mobile solutions, the environment of use becomes increasingly important. What do you do when you encounter obstacles to designing an eff…

Intermediate

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Steve Simula

The term “literacy” usually refers to the ability to read and write functionally. The emphasis is on interaction with the written word - taken for granted as the cornerstone of education. But momentum may be building in …

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Erin Abler

RSVP Required - Building fast, scalable systems is about more than just the speed at which a request can be serviced. We must take into account how we scale a system’s throughput, persisted data size, hardware, contribut…

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Andrew Headrick

RSVP Required - User-centered design can be characterized as a multi-stage problem solving process that not only requires designers to analyze and foresee how users are likely to use a product, but also to test the valid…

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Tyler Wilson, Vincent Higgins

RSVP Required - The strategy of responsive design has long since been accepted as the way to deal with creating web sites that appear custom-tailored to any and every device. Media queries, responsive image strategies an…

Advanced

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Erin Sparling, Joe Kendall

Responsive Design has been much vaunted as the way forward for web and mobile publishing design, flexible and affordable. Whilst a few major brands, Boston Globe, Grey Goose, Barak Obama have begun to explore the possibi…

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Alex Breuer, Dan Gardner, Dave Rupert

Interface transitions are the subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) transitions that take place between different points in a user experience. From the subtle effect of a pin dropping onto a map to the infamous Flash-bas…

Intermediate

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Corey Chandler, Jorge Furuya Mariche

Infographics are timeless, but much like web design and development, practitioners must evolve to remain effective. When infographics were first added to the web-based content marketing arsenal, the novelty factor alone …

Intermediate

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Jason Lankow

Infographics are timeless, but much like web design and development, practitioners must evolve to remain effective. When infographics were first added to the web-based content marketing arsenal, the novelty factor alone …

Presenters

Jason Lankow

This panel featuring Peter Hoddie of Marvell, Morgan Knutson of DropBox and Stephen Spencer of MAYA Design will explore the challenges of creating digital devices in a fun way. Rather than sit around and prognosticate on…

Hello Design has been in the digital trenches for over a decade, and from there we've grown to admire great design and how it impacts the world we live in. We'll take designers' questions and challenges, and pair them w…

Beginner

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David Lai

Everyone should be drawing! This session will show why creatives of all types should make drawing a regular part of their daily routine. How the power of the visual image resonates with your audience, and can be leverage…

Beginner

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Von Glitschka

The map as we know it is on its last legs. People are no longer satisfied with a static map that simply tells them what’s nearby. They want a personalized experience -- one that tells them not just what’s around them, bu…

Intermediate

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Anil Dash, Dennis Crowley

Jason Lankow will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling” following his Book Reading session. Jason Lankow is the CEO/Cofounder of Column Five. He is the co-au…

Josh Ritchie will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling”.…

A new addition to SXSW Interactive in 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new…

Beginner

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Ben Brown

OAuth 2 is the latest version of the OAuth standard-- unlocking authorized access to user data from dozens of different APIs like YouTube, Google Apps and Facebook in a way that's easier than ever for developers. OAuth 2…

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Ryan Boyd

Ross Crooks will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling”.…

We know people gather around interests, circumstances and goals they share. But what role does ‘trust’ play in making an online or mobile community 'sticky'? For user experience mavens, engineers, social media innovators…

Intermediate

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Fred J McClimans, Melinda Wittstock

Today’s applications have the opportunity to reach a global audience, upset the status quo and transform entire industries. With the arrival of Amazon Web Services, on-demand access to compute, storage and database resou…

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Werner Vogels

Wear a watch, or glasses? Perhaps you run with a pedometer in your shoe, or a heart rate monitor on your chest? These are all ways we humans have started to augment our senses with wearable technology. These technologi…

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Ahmed Riaz

RSVP Required - Using an API doesn't begin and end with a request and a response. Before third-party developers write a line of code, there's a desire to leverage your product and connect with your users. How you enable …

Advanced

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Brian Smith, Jeremiah Cohick, Neil Mansilla, R. Kevin Nelson

Artificial intelligence has been around for ages, but with the launch of widely dispersed AI technologies like Siri, AI is now fully a part of mainstream technology and for the first time, being used to improve how we in…

Intermediate

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Dror Oren, Lauren Goode, Nadav Gur, Raj Singh

Someone recently said, "All good design is moral design, and only moral design can ever be good." As designers we spend our time thinking about things like usefulness, desirability, learnability, or gamification, and a…

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RJ Owen

A new addition to SXSW Interactive in 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new…

Beginner

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Damon Clinkscales

RSVP Required - Ambitious web applications are about more than your favorite JavaScript framework. You'll need a system of responsive, reliable and malleable components that can scale independently as your user base grow…

Intermediate

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Jonathon Morgan

Online experiences can be fast, efficient, easy, orderly—and sometimes, that's a recipe for disaster. We click confirm too soon, confuse important details, or miss a key feature in a product description. Efficient isn't …

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Margot Bloomstein

Margot Bloomstein will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Content Strategy at Work: Real-world Stories to Strengthen Every Interactive Project” following her Featured session. Margot Bloomstein (@mbloom…

By bringing technology closer, we can get it out of the way. This is what Glass does. It provides an experience to the user that's there when they want it, and unobtrusive when they don't. In doing so, Glass creates a…

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Timothy Jordan

This is the Meet Up for Ruby on Rails developers, to share ideas and meet other developers.…

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David Bluestein II

The open source movement has turned the software development landscape on its head by creating tools that enable the inmates to start running the software asylum. Just as the world changed when social networking tools ma…

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Mik Kersten

Jeff Gothelf will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of “Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience ”.…

RSVP Required - Configuring, deploying, and managing Big Data infrastructure, Hadoop in particular, is time consuming and expensive. Infochimps’ Ironfan is an open source systems configuration suite for the cloud, quick…

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Amanda McGuckin Hager, Nathaniel Eliot, Ryan Miller, Tim Gasper

RSVP Required - BAM! POW! Beloved superhero Daredevil squelches his enemies with speed and precision, completely uninhibited by his blindness. Overcoming adversity, discovering superpowers, and saving the world are commo…

Beginner

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Livia Veneziano, Yvonne So

RSVP Required - Effective mobile design patterns, Agile design principles and practical expert advice: "start with questions and walk away with wireframes": * Create and test paper wireframes for the core pages of your a…

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Greg Nudelman

RSVP Required - The current patchwork of international, national, and state privacy laws is a mystery to developers, especially those at startups with just a few employees. Most simply do what they think makes sense, bu…

Beginner

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Laura Berger, Mark Blafkin, Morgan Reed, Richard Qiu

Kevin Kim will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of “More iOS 6 Development”.…

Connect with a local Austinite to indulge your deepest curiosities about what it means to practice design in the capital city of Texas at frog–one of the world's top design firms. As a ten-year veteran and Senior Interac…

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Stacy Reinhardt

"How do you know this design is better?" This question stumbles even the most seasoned designers. Businesses are recognizing the importance of design and the competitive advantage that taking a design-led approach offers…

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Alfred Lui

Imagine you want to buy a car. A good car that will be fast, reliable and will last a while. So you ask several car shops to send you a 20 page document describing the car and its many benefits, then you base your car pu…

Intermediate

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Crystal Williams, Julienne Vanderziel, Todd Nienkerk, Zach Chandler

Is there something unique about the social sector that leads to an unwillingness to learn from failure? It's well known that failure is sticky; people learn better from stories of failure than they do from success stori…

Beginner

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Ashley Good, Ela Ben-Ur, Jaspal Sandhu, Sean Hewens

Moonshots are seemingly impossible and yet impossibly-important ideas that through science and technology can be brought to reality. Google[x] is a moonshot factory full of optimists who are focused on changing the world…

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Astro Teller

Graphics are key to the user experience of online content, especially now that users are accessing that content on a multitude of devices: smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktops. During this quick session, Christo…

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Christopher Schmitt

Graphics are key to the user experience of online content, especially now that users are accessing that content on a multitude of devices: smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktops. During this quick session, Christo…

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Christopher Schmitt

Christopher Schmitt will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Designing Web and Mobile Graphics: Fundamental concepts for web and interactive projects” following his Book Reading session.…

Anyone can design a gadget that looks pretty, but when it comes down to building a successful product, it’s about so much more than just looks. Companies like Jawbone and Nest are disrupting categories by putting purpose…

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Hosain Rahman, Scott Dadich, Tony Fadell

Augmentation. It’s not just for plastic surgery anymore. Today, companies are exploring the world of augmented reality for customer support, partnering with mobile devices to give computers, printers and other devices mu…

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Ben Johnson, Fulvio Marfoni, John Havens, Wendy Farrell

RSVP Required - Standard ebook publishing requires ramping up on knowledge about various ebook formats, and then becoming familiar with proprietary ebook publishing channels like Kindle, iBooks, etc. Wouldn't it be easie…

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Tessa Silver

RSVP Required - Innovation continues to skyrocket in the mobile space, but many developers don't realize that they're creating apps against a complex -- and often murky -- legal backdrop. This presentation will identify …

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Charles Mudd Jr, Marcia Hofmann

RSVP Required - Mobile devices have changed the way we design and develop products. Every touch and interface design decision has an impact, especially on users with disabilities. We'll talk about how these users interac…

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Victor Tsaran

The UX Awards UX Meetup is an opportunity for User Experience professionals at SXSW Interactive to get together for an informal, relaxing meet -and- greet before ending their SXSW experience! Come meet like-minded UX pra…

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Beverly May