Events matching tag "design"
Friday, March 7
Ushahidi is from Kenya; we know how hard it can be to get connected. Those who lack connectivity are at a disadvantage to their more connected peers. Yet the equipment used to connect in Kenya or India is the same as tha…
Intermediate
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Erik Hersman, Juliana Rotich, Reg Orton
'Press start to begin' is the message gamers have been greeted with since the early days of interactive entertainment. Hitting that start button is typically the player’s first interaction with a game after putting in th…
Intermediate
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David Sinclair, Michael Dunn, Richard Garriott de Cayeux, Ron Burke
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:…
Intermediate
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Aaron Smith, Christine Jones, Michele Silvestri
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…
Intermediate
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Carol Gibson, Susan Hewitt
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:…
Intermediate
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Toby Barlow
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
Poster Designer meet up will consist of local and international artists and designers getting together to hang out and network. Designers of all mediums and skill level are encouraged to attend. Free screen printed poste…
Beginner
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Bobby Dixon
Saturday, March 8
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
Just as we took our cues from MBAs and the military in casting the ideal CEO of the 20th century, we can look to design - in its broadest form - to model our future leader, the DEO. DEOs look at every business challenge …
Beginner
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Christopher Ireland, Maria Giudice
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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Leah McDougald
What’s it like to develop both digital and paper-based games and what does each have to teach you about the other? Designing interactions and creating rich game spaces is a complicated affair. This panel of indie game de…
Intermediate
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Adam Saltsman, George Royer
Behavior change is hard. Doctors, trainers and clinicians have struggled for years to get people to take their medication, track what they eat, and increase their physical activity. And it's failed. While behavior chang…
Intermediate
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Andrew Rosenthal, Elliot Cohen, Ryan Panchadsaram, Yifan Zhang
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
Immersive experiences were invented in the theater where performers and set designers transport audiences to different times and places. Merging theater with 3D technology extends the experience by removing constraints o…
Beginner
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Benoît Marini
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
As designers, we use UX and information architecture to take messy systems and turn them into organized, pleasant experiences. I don't know about you, but my house (and life in general) could certainly use a bit of that…
Intermediate
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Alexis Duffy, Aynne Valencia, Jenny Tsai, Sandra Lloyd
There are concepts found within architecture and industrial design, fields that have exists for hundreds of years, that carry over to the relatively still fetal stage of interaction design. Considering and looking into t…
Intermediate
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Michael Senkow
When no one knows who you are, you can finally be yourself. That's the promise of Secret, a fast-growing anonymous sharing app. In this discussion, Secret's co-founder David Byttow and TechCrunch's Josh Constine will exp…
Intermediate
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David Byttow, Josh Constine
Following the success of the Design and Science: More than a Pretty Picture panel at SXSW 2013, we hope to continue the conversation about the creative side of discovery and the new approaches to communicating science t…
Intermediate
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Felice Frankel, Jennifer Jongsma
Sunday, March 9
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…
Intermediate
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Bushra Mahmood
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
The future of libraries is here for the making. Library Machines is the time and space to get folks together to imagine, design and market new Library Machines. What’s a Library Machine? They follow a little formula, …
Intermediate
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Jeff Goldenson, Sidsel Bech-Petersen
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…
Intermediate
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Gadi Amit
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 …
Intermediate
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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
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…
Intermediate
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John Battelle, Sundar Pichai
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 …
Intermediate
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Julia Hu, Matt Rolandson, Michael Gough, Robert Brunner
Who gives a f*ck about techies? We don’t. We prefer to consider those at the fringes of life. Yes, we’re talking about incapacitation and death. It’s not fun. It’s not sexy. And it certainly won’t inspire the next wave o…
Intermediate
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Evan Carroll, Virginia Ingram
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…
Intermediate
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Alfred Lui
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 Holt
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…
Intermediate
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Joel Beukelman
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…
Intermediate
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Brad Nunnally
The Title Design Program will start with a presentation from Art of the Title's Senior Editor Will Perkins and Managing Editor Lola Landekic on the history of title design in Hollywood, the emergence of title's in video …
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…
Beginner
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Peter Skillman
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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Jesús Gorriti
Monday, March 10
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…
Intermediate
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Michael Boeke
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…
Intermediate
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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/IAP18106 D…
Intermediate
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Chelsey Delaney, Chris Trew
I've worked for a lot of idiot managers in my career. And then, one day, after I had become a manager, it dawned on me: Now I'm the idiot! Most of my career has been an exercise in “trial by fire” and this process worked…
Beginner
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Russ Unger
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…
Intermediate
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Ben Balter, Danny Chapman, Jessica Teal, Julie Herron
Since the 1980s Roy Peter Clark and Mario Garcia -- an influential writing coach and world-class designer -- have collaborated on a creative concept called WED, an acronym that stands for the marriage of Writing, Editin…
Advanced
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Mario Garcia, Roy Peter Clark
Beauty, periphery and meaning are three of the principles that will facilitate the adoption of wearable technology devices, according to Artefact designer and wearable tech expert Jennifer Darmour. But how do you apply t…
Advanced
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Jennifer Darmour
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…
Beginner
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Rick Mason
Digital devices and social media sites give us dozens of ways to become more informed, to express ourselves, to have our voices heard as part of the national discussion. Yet while we embrace these new channels, the colle…
Beginner
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Rob Girling
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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Clay Crenshaw
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…
Intermediate
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Ted Boda
Being a creative and working day in, day out at an agency can be a lot like being on the run from hordes of ravenous flesh-eating zombies. Do you have what it takes to survive either? Drawing on the rich tapestry of sur…
Intermediate
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William Colgrove
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
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
At Upworthy, Eli Pariser has designed a hella fast growing news site, using careful curation, point of view and crafty headline arts to engage people in serious news. We'll talk about the nature of viralness, feedback a…
Intermediate
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David Carr, Eli Pariser
Tuesday, March 11
ATTENTION: This workshop is FULL. If you do not have a CONFIRMED seat, you will not be able to get in as space is very limited. Those with a confirmed seat must arrive by 9:25am or their seat will go to someone waiting o…
Intermediate
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Alex Cuthbert
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
As designers, whether we’re creating packaging, products, or places, we usually think first of human purpose and pleasure. Nature’s elegance inspires us with beautiful forms, folds, spirals, patterns, shapes, layers, ma…
Intermediate
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Jane Fulton Suri, Tim McGee
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
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 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
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
Wednesday, March 12
Audience members submit their websites and then each site's design, organization, content and functionality will be assessed. How does the website fit with the artist's overall online strategy, and how successfully does …
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Andrew Salmon, Brian Felsen, David Dufresne, Emily White, Michael Schneider
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