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Scott Belsky will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality".…
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Scott Belsky
Friday, March 7
Start your morning at SXSW Home Room. Introduced in 2013, Home Room sessions are part SXSW program information, part meet up. Each session is led by two Home Room Leaders who will help you get the most out of your day, …
Beginner
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Alix Morrow, Amanda O'Brien
Start your morning at SXSW Home Room. Introduced in 2013, Home Room sessions are part SXSW program information, part meet up. Each session is led by two Home Room Leaders who will help you get the most out of your day, …
Beginner
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Christopher Walton, Elizabeth Salazar
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP25597 Fo…
Intermediate
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Daniel Wilson
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP25173 Wh…
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Ian Varley
Come learn how Adobe's Innovation Pipeline team goes from just an idea to a functional prototype ready for testing with real users in a matter of weeks for their newest web authoring tools. During this interactive sessio…
Intermediate
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Devin Fernandez, Winsha Chen
Exceptional design doesn't always have to come from the design department. In fact, designers often play by simple guidelines they follow intuitively that anyone can learn. In this session you will learn the techniques d…
Beginner
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Paul Trani
ATTENTION: Priority Seating is available for this session. To take advantage of this opportunity, you will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To get your priority seating, please go here:…
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Aaron Smith, Christine Jones, Michele Silvestri
The web has become a rich creative platform. It's so ubiquitous that it's hard to imagine any game changer not being a part of the web. We're reaching a point where ideas we could only dream of in the past from interacti…
Intermediate
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CJ Gammon
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP24940 Yo…
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Carol Gibson, Susan Hewitt
I'm going to show you how to make your customers happy using techniques that are normally employed by the lowest of the low; con-men, pick-up artists, used car salesmen, and as-seen-on-tv marketers. You'll learn that it'…
Intermediate
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Chris Nodder
User experience has become a ubiquitous buzzword in the tech and design field. Equally as ubiquitous is the association of "user experience" with the title "designer". Which is irritating. This talk is about my journey …
Intermediate
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Morgan Burton
HTML is a powerful platform for weaving a story of data through interactivity and motion. What could otherwise be dry, stale, or rather boring information suddenly becomes vibrant, engaging, and entertaining. Interactive…
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Sarah Hunt
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP22681 So…
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Scott Lenger
As product design, user interfaces and frameworks are all converging to humanize technology and make it all about the complete user experience, valuable, relevant content is the currency of the new digital economy. Users…
Intermediate
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Jon Setzen
The idea of making isn’t just reserved for handmade bikes, artisan pickles, and Arduino helicopters. The future of making is a product of our human needs and the possibilities we create through technology. This is about …
Beginner
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Joie Ito, Tim Brown
Achieving financial bliss, or even organizing everything in one place, is no easy task. There are many obstacles to maintaining stability like: How much am I spending on necessities? What’s the best way to handle debt? A…
Intermediate
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Vince Maniago
Estimating digital & software projects has long been considered a dark art. Many luminaries have written books, articles, blog posts, and rants on the subject. Steve McConnell, the guru of project estimation, has suggest…
Intermediate
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Brett Porter, Deborah Hanamura, Joshua Philips, Trevor Kale
What do iOS, Android, and the Internet all have in common? They were all built using source code editors driven by talented people. It’s often said that the editor is the most powerful tool in the arsenal of a develope…
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Jonathan Dunlap
Chris Nodder will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Evil by Design: Interaction Design to Lead Us into Temptation".……
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Chris Nodder
Saturday, March 8
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP24635 To…
Intermediate
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Tyler Wilson, Vincent Higgins
It's time to slim down our Web and mobile apps. Some features only clutter the interface, distract our users and waste our precious time. The only problem: Which ones can be removed? How do you decide whether a feature b…
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Jeremy Tunnell, Malcolm Ong, Mat Mullen, Matas Petrikas
Start your morning at SXSW Home Room. Introduced in 2013, Home Room sessions are part SXSW program information, part meet up. Each session is led by two Home Room Leaders who will help you get the most out of your day, …
Beginner
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Alix Morrow, Amanda O'Brien
Ocupop has maintained an authority position as a design resource for everyone from the W3C to Google to countless startups; we've navigated hundreds of design reviews while avoiding the bullshit and bastardization most d…
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Michael Nieling
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP23039 Le…
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Arjun Venkataswamy, Mike McGee, Sandor Weisz
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP20614 Yo…
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AJ Self, Darby Frey, Shay Howe
Robots soon will change how we work; how we feed ourselves; how we heal; and how we relate to each other. Few emerging technologies have the power to disrupt our world on quite this scale. But with these enormous opport…
Intermediate
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Carl Bass
User experience (UX) and user interface (UI) designers face the challenge of designing software applications for different screen sizes. Most consumers have smartphones, tablets, and large Smart TVs that allow them to en…
Intermediate
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Ana Karen Ramírez, Anjuan Simmons
ATTENTION: This is a DROP-IN workshop. You may come at any time between 9:30am-6:00pm. Participants will get creative reinterpreting letters inspired by street signs and signage from around the world. Physical play …
Intermediate
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Sarah Hyndman
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP23795 A …
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Aaron Britt, Jacqui Watts, Justin Ferrell, Sean Hewens
As we look at what’s ahead for technology leaders, it’s clear that we’ll need more than good ideas, products and experiences to stay at the forefront. If we want to continue to transform how people look at the world, sim…
Intermediate
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Stephen Kim
Third-party JavaScript widgets (think Facebook Connect or Twitter Widgets) add functionality and enhance user experience, at very little cost to you. Unfortunately, much of the existing third-party JavaScript currently …
Intermediate
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Kent Brewster
There is an ever-increasing number of devices available to us, and an equally large number of ways to interact with them. We want to examine the role of gestures in interaction: how we've moved forward from mice and keyb…
Intermediate
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Allison Sigrist, Amber Heinbockel
What is the future of responsive web design? With screen sizes and shapes evolving by the month, if not the moment (iPad mini, the 13-inch tablet, Google Glass), designers, developers and marketers need to rethink how th…
Intermediate
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Chris Saint-Amant, Kerry Bodine, Mike Norman, Tim Hayden
Watch this fast-paced experiment where four strangers come together to launch a product in an hour. One supercoder will launch the back-end for an e-commerce website. One design guru will bang out stylesheets and logos. …
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Bill Hogan, Jess Morse, Pippin Williamson, Shiloh Daniel
Whether it's Nike+ reminding you to be more active, Mint judging you for going over budget last week, or Gmail telling you which emails are important, every day we're interacting with products and services that attempt t…
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Matt Danna
This talk will break some of the myths regarding pre-processors, and explain how they have help us to be more efficient when coding CSS. There are very influential people in the industry that have put down Sass, Less and…
Intermediate
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Ramon Lapenta
With so much going on at SXSW each day, it’s easy to miss some important bit of information that could end up changing the world. Join SXSW senior staff and special press guests to get their take on the important events,…
Intermediate
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Jeffrey Dachis, Kathleen Maher, Loic Le Meur
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 media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
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John Roa
The UX Meetup is an opportunity for all types of User Experience pros to get together for an informal, relaxing meet -and- greet. Come meet like-minded UX practitioners, designers, testers, researchers, UX-oriented produ…
Intermediate
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Beverly May
Almost everyone and everything has an app now, but whether those apps get traction with users and perform well for developers depends on a special blend of brains (backend functionality) and beauty (UX). As with dating, …
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Ilya Sukhar
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP20591 Th…
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Ian MacDowell, Katrina Bekessy
Gigabit fiber means more than just faster Internet. Low latency, virtual networks and frictionless online experiences enable a new world of possibilities. Next generation Internet applications are challenging from both a…
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Aaron Deacon, Bob Metcalfe, Will Barkis
Animated words and pictures behind touch-sensitive glass is no longer enough to amaze digital natives. Now more than ever, digital installations and other interactive experiences require inspired technological creativity…
Intermediate
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Keith Butters, Toby Boudreaux
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP22152 Th…
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Lindsey Simon, Lorin Beer
API design is an important component of developer experience. REST and Hypermedia introduced Web concepts to API design that made integrations easier than the RPC and SOAP style APIs before them. While useful, the patter…
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Jeremiah Cohick
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 media professional. Please visit this URL t…
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Esther Kuperman
These interactive bilingual (ASL and English) storybook apps for iPad are unique and different from any other storybook apps currently available because they were designed and developed based on research in visual learni…
Intermediate
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Melissa Malzkuhn, Melissa Herzig
The manner in which an API is managed once it is launched is just as critical to its success as the design of the API, and the features it offers. This session will offer a balanced look at the reality of managing a popu…
Intermediate
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Thor Mitchell
Last year, PBS KIDS took on the daunting task of redesigning the brand for the modern media landscape including a complete overhaul of the Webby-award winning PBSKIDS.ORG. During this process, a small internal team took …
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Chris Bishop, Miguel Montanez
The smartphone has changed every element of research over the past few years – from the way consumers want to respond to inquiries (some 40% of research surveys are opened and completed on a mobile device) to the tools a…
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Andrew Campbell
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 media professional. Please visit this URL t…
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Pamela Pavliscak
Mobile apps continue to pour in for games, navigation, education, collaboration, content creation - there seem to be no limits. While mobile apps are easy to develop, they can be challenging to manage, and more difficu…
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Peter Bahrs, Sean Sundberg
Why do we produce charts, infographics, reports or, indeed, any kind of media? We do it to change the world and to influence people. Are you succeeding in doing that in your role? We've chosen the 5 most influential vis…
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Andy Cotgreave
When it started two decades ago, SXSW Interactive was a couple hundred participants and a handful of panel discussions, all crammed into a few rooms at a Hyatt in Austin. Today, it has become a launching pad for startups…
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Baratunde Thurston, Danah Boyd, Gary Vaynerchuk, Guy Kawasaki, Hugh Forrest, Lane Becker, Molly Steenson, Robert Safian
Sunday, March 9
Start your morning at SXSW Home Room. Introduced in 2013, Home Room sessions are part SXSW program information, part meet up. Each session is led by two Home Room Leaders who will help you get the most out of your day, …
Beginner
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Alix Morrow, Amanda O'Brien
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP18081 Ef…
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Greg Nudelman
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP23253 Co…
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Ethan Muller, Jeremy Mack, Rob Tarr
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP17712 Ta…
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Dana Bauer, Everett Toews, Ken Perkins, Kyle Rames
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP27138 At…
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Adrienne Huesca, Joel Yarmon, Leslie Miley, Patrick Murck
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP25753 C…
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Aren Kaser, Sean Murphy, Steve Lowe
When designers share their work under an open license, they invite others to build upon and transform their designs without asking for permission, sometimes even using them commercially. A few years ago, the idea of lett…
Intermediate
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Elliot Harmon, Eric Stover, Scott Belsky, Sofya Polyakov
Designers have a growing toolbox, It used to be that all we needed was a good pen and access to Photoshop. Now, we’re writing code, using a huge suite of tools, and getting our hands dirty in ways we never imagined. One…
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Bushra Mahmood
Why is it important to focus on accessibility on your website? We'll show you how one highly dynamic and video-rich website was brought to life and then adapted for mobile—all while adhering to Section 508 compliance to …
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Jordan Sheckman
Consumer adoption of wearables and mobile sensors is set to skyrocket in 2014 and beyond, with increasingly complex devices bringing about the true realization of ‘the quantified self’. The impact these sensors will have…
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Gadi Amit
1. Collect all the data. 2. Design all the data with integrity. 3. ??? 4. Achieve universal knowledge and understanding. When Edward Tufte tweets mockingly of the leaked NSA slides, he does so as the self-anointed king o…
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Gabriel Schaffzin
How do we design experiences that are intrinsically baked with success? Experiences that force users to learn new tricks and as a by-product modify behavior and become addictive. How do we reward attention rather than de…
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Pete Trainor
In this talk Spencer Hewett will discuss some of his novel approaches to RFID localization that yield 20x increases in accuracy over conventional methods.…
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Spencer Hewett
Every day we are overwhelmed with a barrage of information in the world around us. To make sense of this onslaught of data, we look for patterns, and we make decisions every moment based on the patterns we recognize. Of …
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Robert Stribley
With ABI forecasting that global original equipment manufacturer (OEM) connected car system penetration will increase from 11.4% in 2012 to 60.1% in 2017, automotive manufacturers are under significant pressure to keep p…
Beginner
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Ali Abaye
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 media professional. Please visit this URL t…
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Jason Costa
With continuously changing technology, and fast-paced product cycles, we as designers no longer have the luxury of laboriously debating every pixel. I will be discussing how product design & innovation is tackled at a gl…
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Joel Beukelman
We used to go to our desks to connect to the Internet, now the Internet is in our pockets. Next year, it will be common to access online information on our wrists, from our eyeglasses, and inside our cars. By 2017, 'mobi…
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Alfred Lui
Computing is going through one of the most exciting moments in its history: people are increasingly adopting phones, tablets and newer type of devices. And this spread of technology has the potential to make a positive i…
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John Battelle, Sundar Pichai
The most basic technology and process we use today to fish was introduced 40,000 years ago. While human factors and user experience (UX) are more recent sciences, they are more similar to fishing than you may think. Let…
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Jon Kohrs
Google, Netflix, Square, Adobe. These are companies known for creating incredible software products and services. And yet, they are boldly pushing into new territory by creating hardware. But why? Google’s investment in …
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Julia Hu, Matt Rolandson, Michael Gough, Robert Brunner
Our lives’ are full of choices, and the number of choices we get slammed with every day is overwhelming. Especially as the human experience increasingly moves into the digital space – e.g. digital ads heralding four diff…
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Brad Nunnally
What can 3 billion geotagged Tweets collected over 18 months tell us about the world? We mapped this huge data set, taking a look at Twitter's userbase in incredible detail – revealing demographic, cultural, and social …
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Eric Gundersen, Ian Cairns
Co-authors Brad Nunnally and Russ Unger will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Designing the Conversation: Techniques for Successful Facilitation". Unger will also sign copies of his latest release “Speaker…
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Brad Nunnally, Russ Unger
Digital screens are now as thin as paper, as we often wished for and ultimately expected. These paper-thin displays are referred to as AMOLED and are currently used in some mobile devices and televisions. In this present…
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Brandon Schmittling
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP19077 Th…
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Stephen Wendel
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 media professional. Please visit this URL t…
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Ben Satterfield
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are in their early stages of being developed for delivery of educational content. Current structural limitations inhibit everything from sophisticated game based learning to simple ema…
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Dawn Zimmaro, Donna Kidwell, Janet Walkow, Ross Strader
Today we are still using our mobile devices like the way we used to on old computers with a mouse. We have limited ourselves to only scrolling up, down, left, and right in most of our mobile experiences, when our touch…
Beginner
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Sung Kim
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP19539 Se…
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James Wickett, Karthik Gaekwad, Matt Johansen
Some say responsive web design means a different content strategy between different devices based on the context of use. Others say responsive web design means getting the same content no matter what device and context. …
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Amanda Krauss, Caryn Lusinchi, Chris Wiegman, Hawk Thompson
How you design web pages is changing — rapidly. Part of being a great web designer is understanding the medium you are designing for, recognizing its weaknesses and pushing its strengths. It's no longer enough to show a …
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Jason CranfordTeague
We live in a cross-platform world, with users now expecting the data they create to follow them across various devices, browsers and even offline. Consumers’ data sync demands range from simple needs (i.e. accessing the …
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Leah Culver
Currently, there is a major disconnect between the multi-year development cycles of automakers and consumer expectations for smart devices. Automakers can’t keep pace with the fast-moving software updates brought about b…
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Peter Skillman
This panel looks at a wide range of intersections between interaction design and the performing arts, from narrative to puppetry to dramatic theory. The performing arts may be characterized by the expression of emotion a…
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Allucquere Stone, Brenda Laurel, Emma Westecott, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
We all know the next wave is mobile, it's been beaten into our brains. But, what does a company do when they want to get on that wave, but the core of their business is still on the Web. How do you architect experiences …
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Andrew Vilcsak, Mark Smallcombe, Martin Destagnol, Sean Coady
Monday, March 10
Building advertising campaigns using traditional models doesn’t translate to today’s environment, where success requires listening, agility, and even - shock, horror - accepting failure as a part of the process. Creating…
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Aman Govil, Ben Malbon
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP20315 Th…
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Ben Callahan, Jeremy Loyd
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP17442 …
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Chuck Greb, Matt Smollinger
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP25067 Su…
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Aaron Sedley, Elizabeth Ferrall-Nunge
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP20403 A …
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Abby Kallgren, Dan Abramson, Nate Maggio
Start your morning at SXSW Home Room. Introduced in 2013, Home Room sessions are part SXSW program information, part meet up. Each session is led by two Home Room Leaders who will help you get the most out of your day, …
Beginner
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Alix Morrow, Amanda O'Brien
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP18106 D…
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Chelsey Delaney, Chris Trew
There's untapped magic in the gap between gadgets. Multi-screen design is a preoccupying problem as we try to fit our content into many different screens. But as devices proliferate, the opportunity is less about designi…
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Josh Clark
Let’s face it, as designers we’ve all been guilty of carelessly adopting popular usability and design conventions from time to time. Usually, we get the benefit of someone else’s thoughtfulness and research - no effort r…
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Michael Boeke
Struggling to have the impact you want? Win the hearts of your teammates and stakeholders with this simple recipe for Deep Collaboration! We’ll share the techniques we used to transform naysayers into UX advocates whil…
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Alissa Briggs, Raman Hansi
Greg Nudelman will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Android Design Patterns: Interaction Design Solutions for Developers".……
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Greg Nudelman
Brenda Laurel will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Computers as Theatre (2nd Edition)".……
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Brenda Laurel
User experience design typically focuses on creating meaningful experiences that will affect as many people as possible. Startups covet reaching critical mass; success for larger companies is often measured in tens of mi…
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Joseph Medwid, Kevin McMillin
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 media professional. Please visit this URL t…
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Daniel Harvey
Quality Assurance (QA) has quickly become a required discipline in today's digital world. As agencies strive to produce flawless digital content, they're struggling with how to establish QA teams to support process, and …
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Ben Currie, Jim Spillson, Kt Mcbratney, Michael Morowitz
Dynamic Web Environments, (a term I dubbed last year) are websites that change and mold much like how responsive websites mold to a device, but this time to a users needs. The trick is to change the website to deliver co…
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Jesse Friedman
Nearly everything we do is being mediated by technology, and that has turned us all into "walking data generators" - each individually throwing off exponentially more data than we were a decade ago. How can business owne…
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Rajat Paharia
Rajat Paharia will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Loyalty 3.0: How to Revolutionize Customer and Employee Engagement with Big Data and Gamification".……
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Rajat Paharia
What’s old is new again. Content delivery systems that push static, or ‘flat’ HTML files are back. Jekyll, Middleman, Prose.io, GitHub Pages have led a new wave of sites — particularly in government — that are being depl…
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Ben Balter, Danny Chapman, Jessica Teal, Julie Herron
It's uncomfortable for me to admit this: Analysts aren't paid for the elegance of their Python, the resplendence of their R, or even the complexity of their CSV files. But after years of leading social analytics and rese…
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Eric Swayne
Mobile today means more than handsets in pockets. Welcome to digital ubiquity. Always-on cross-channel services add new dimensions of complexity to the job of user experience strategy and product design. So, yes, “mobi…
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Abi Jones, Christian Crumlish, Paul McAleer
Join leading technology insiders as they share the latest and hottest trends in tech innovation, consumer electronics, services, social media and startups – and unveil a top-level view of what’s coming in the near and lo…
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Gary Shapiro, Kevin O'Malley, Robert Scoble
In today’s mobile-centric world, our lives have been transformed to expect to discover and share almost every aspect of our lives on the go. With these discoveries come personal reactions through photos, videos, social …
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Cameron Clayton, Gary Klassen, Giorgos Zacharia, Tara O'Donnell
What does it mean to collect Art when digital technology has made the cost of copying zero? Is scarcity obsolete? As a creator, how do you assert authenticity when your work can be copied and transmitted thousands of tim…
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Chris Messina
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP24553 Ke…
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Ted Boda
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP20100 It…
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Rick Mason
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP25709 Le…
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J Nathan Matias, Sarah Szalavitz
Web and app developers: Want to make connected, intelligent consumer electronics but aren’t sure where to start? This session’s for you. We’ll share our approach to hardware and software design, and the hard lessons lear…
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Andy Carle, Peter Hoddie
Come meet front-end engineers, designers and other UI enthusiasts from the Chicago HTML5 Meet Up for networking and discussion of the growing ubiquity of the open web. Tablets, smart phones and desktops are just the beg…
Intermediate
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Mattie Langenberg
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP27136 Di…
Beginner
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Mat Hale, Todd Moyer
Customers increasingly expect retailers to understand their preferences so they can deliver personalized service. That’s why people love to shop on Amazon; Amazon uses insights about each customer to provide a seamless, …
Intermediate
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Marc Freed-Finnegan
Recent advances in technology that support the creation of interactive virtual reality, and breakthroughs in the tools of non-invasive human neuroscience have now resulted in a collision of these two exciting worlds. Phi…
Intermediate
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Adam Gazzaley, Philip Rosedale
Stephen Wendel will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Designing for Behavior Change".……
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Stephen Wendel
Come see human-centered design teams led by IDEO.org and the Stanford d.school present their findings from three days of design research, brainstorming, and prototyping during SXSW. Read the workshop description and si…
Randy Krum will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Cool Infographics: Effective Communication with Data Visualization and Design"……
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Randy Krum
UI design practices have evolved over the years. Too much or too little design documentation can create a gap between designers and engineers, but there is an easier way. Today’s solutions allow designers to communicate …
Intermediate
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Brian Peppler, John Goff
Interaction designers the world over often work at their desks solo, headphones on, working deep inside their own head. When they come out of their bubble to show their work, they're often surprised at the response. Coop…
Intermediate
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Christopher Noessel, Suzy Thompson
I’ve been working on product design for big corporations, for small companies and for my own startups. Each time I come to a point where I need to know more about how the users behave. Why are they not using a new featur…
Intermediate
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Tue Andersen
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 media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
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Jon-Eric Steinbomer
Consumers and technology play a major role in the evolution of omni-channel retailing. As retailers and advertisers, we can’t deny shoppers' quest for the best available product at the best possible price. How do you cre…
Beginner
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Ly Tran, Tim Lakin
Love it or hate it, the adult entertainment industry has played a major role in shaping the digital landscape. Porn websites, in particular, have often been at the forefront of meeting the shifting needs of users. These …
Beginner
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Steve Johnson
The Ruby on Rails Meet Up is an opportunity for Rails developers and businesses who use Rails to come together to compare notes on Rails development, how the Rails market is, and what people are developing in Rails.……
Beginner
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David Bluestein II
Join us for food and drink to learn about IBM BlueMix and IBM’s Watson Mobile Developer Challenge while listening to Blues music! Register here: http://bit.ly/1i3eWok…
Tuesday, March 11
You’ve seen them. The blinking, pulsing eyesores. Animations used by developers and designers who think “Because I can” is a good excuse. It’s not. On the web, there should be a reason for everything. Every transition, t…
Intermediate
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Gabe Martin, Robby Grant
Over the past decade the record industry has seen a monumental shift in the way creators make and distribute their product to fans. The same thing is about to happen to the design and manufacturing of all physical goods.…
Advanced
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Zach Kaplan
At its heart, presenting personalized data and experiences for users is simple. But transferring, delivering and serving this data at high scale can become quite challenging. In this session, we will speak about the scal…
Advanced
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Rohan Singh, Sriram Malladi
Have you noticed not much has changed in digital communications standards (e.g., email and IM) in the past decade? Email and other standard digital communication methods haven't kept to meet the needs of 2014 technologie…
Intermediate
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Trevor Linton
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 media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
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Brian Wallace
The Texas Tribune deals with government data ranging from thousands to millions of rows and every data set has one thing in common: there's next to nothing in common. This talk shows you the process for consuming govern…
Beginner
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Travis Swicegood
While talks on theory and the promise of Gamification run rampant, very few of them provide the necessary tools to turn knowledge into action that deliver a strong Return on Investment for companies. As a Gamification Pi…
Advanced
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Yu-kai Chou
Cultural design aesthetics have become less isolated and influence each other to evolve a global design standard as technology spreads. Differences between countries in aesthetics and interactions continue to meld. What …
Beginner
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Elizabeth Jensen
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 media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
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Akil Franklin
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP24483 Do…
Intermediate
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Ed Schipul, Rachel Magario
Typefaces help you share, rant, tweet, post, publish and sell. They are the behind-the-scenes stars that portray your thoughts in visual language. Cast in the wrong role they may underperform or fail at this task yet ma…
Intermediate
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Blair Brown, Steve Matteson
Dogbert says to Diibert: "Information is gushing toward your brain like a firehose aimed at a teacup!" An extremely effective way to make sense of all this information is to find stories in the data and visualize them, w…
Beginner
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Fernanda Viégas, Graham Roberts, Karl Gude, Ronnie Lipton
As responsive design and progressive enhancement become mainstream design practices, the decades old approach of using Adobe Photoshop to comp up page designs for clients is becoming increasingly irrelevant. A quick sear…
Intermediate
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Jeremy Fuksa
Can a great company stay great after losing its visionary leader? For her new book "Haunted Empire," former Wall Street Journal Apple reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane interviewed nearly 200 company insiders, experts and busi…
Intermediate
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Geoffrey Fowler, Yukari Iwatani Kane
The process of designing a great experience and physically building a great experience have begun to merge. This shift radically changes the fundamental roles of designers and technologists. Today, we iteratively build t…
Intermediate
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Jai Dandekar, Randall Elliott
Quips like, “that’s over my head”, “her looks could kill” or “he’s cold-hearted” reveal deep connections between our physical senses and our emotional experiences. Today scientists are discovering new truths about viscer…
Intermediate
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Michael Hendrix
As interaction designers, we design how people spend their time. Judging by the amount of distracted multi-tasking, stress from information overload, and struggle for work-life balance, we're doing a pretty bad job of ke…
Intermediate
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Boaz Gurdin
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP20731 Ma…
Intermediate
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Andrew Sanderson, Denis Bohm
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP23435 Si…
Intermediate
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Brandy Porter, Jeff Heaton
Pablo Picasso was a prolific artist. He produced over 150,000 pieces of art, which equates to delivering seven finished pieces of art each day of his career. Picasso also delivered in different mediums: paintings, scul…
Beginner
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Brian Sullivan, J Schuh
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP25092 Re…
Advanced
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Alec Plumb, Brad Marsh, John Gustafsson, Robert Tomb
What were the top talks, tweets, trends, start-ups and parties? It’s impossible to absorb everything at SXSWi. So we dropped three energetic "beholders" into the field, documented their every move with borderline Orwelli…
Beginner
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Jesse Suchmann
Wave Harder: What happened when we experimented with Motion Computing in a physical retail environment? Utilizing motion computing presents a lot of possibilities at retail, we wanted to explore what technologies to use,…
Advanced
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Juuso Myllyrinne, Steve White
Join representatives from Warner Music, Sony Music, and Microsoft to learn about the new CME media format based on open web standards like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and common media formats like MP3 and h.264. The CME…
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Brad Spahr, Howie Singer, Michael Scherotter, Prabhu Anbananthan
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