2015 Schedule
Interactive: March 13–17  •  Film: March 13–21  •  Music: March 17–22

Complete event listing for

Design and Development

 

Friday, March 13

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Designing for Trust
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon D
Friday, March 13 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Psychological Architectures for Persuasive Tech
Workshop
JW Marriott Salon F
Friday, March 13 11:00AM - 1:30PM
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Revamping Photoshop for Screen Design
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon E
Friday, March 13 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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CSS as a Service: Maintaining Style
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon B
Friday, March 13 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Customizable Interactive SVG Graphics for the Web
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon D
Friday, March 13 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Moving from Graphic Design to 3D Object Design
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon E
Friday, March 13 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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The Myth of Reducing Friction in Your Product
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon A
Friday, March 13 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Failure as a Creative Catalyst
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon E
Friday, March 13 2:00PM - 3:00PM
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How Beautiful Tools Make Sense of Complex Data
Solo / Dual / Panel
ACL Live at the Moody Theater ACL Live
Friday, March 13 3:30PM - 4:30PM
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How to Be a More Inefficient Designer
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon E
Friday, March 13 3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Modern Web Accessibility Workshop
Workshop
JW Marriott Salon H
Friday, March 13 3:30PM - 6:00PM
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No, I will (Probably) Not Redesign Your Website
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon D
Friday, March 13 3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Sails.js: Rags to...Open Source
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon B
Friday, March 13 3:30PM - 4:30PM
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UX and The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon A
Friday, March 13 3:30PM - 4:30PM
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How Kids Changed the Way We Design for Adults
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon D
Friday, March 13 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Mentor Session: Nicholas Kim
Mentor Session
Courtyard Marriott Brazos I
Friday, March 13 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Mentor Session: Rachel Reinitz
Mentor Session
Courtyard Marriott Brazos II
Friday, March 13 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Understanding Ember.js
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon B
Friday, March 13 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Well-Designed: Creating Empathy-Driven Products
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon A
Friday, March 13 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide
Book Reading
Austin Convention Center Ballroom G
Friday, March 13 5:30PM - 5:50PM

Saturday, March 14

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Beyond Pixels: User Experience Is Your Product
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon B
Saturday, March 14 9:30AM - 10:30AM
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Build Right: Frontend Testing
Workshop
JW Marriott Room 303-304
Saturday, March 14 9:30AM - 1:30PM
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Building Location-Aware Apps Using Open Source
Workshop
JW Marriott Salon F
Saturday, March 14 9:30AM - 1:30PM
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Designers and Content Creators: Make Love Not War
Core Conversation
JW Marriott Salon C
Saturday, March 14 9:30AM - 10:30AM
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The Evolution of the Web
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon E
Saturday, March 14 9:30AM - 10:30AM
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Information Architecture Essentials
Workshop
JW Marriott Room 307
Saturday, March 14 9:30AM - 6:00PM
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Making the Future: 3D Printing Workshop
Workshop
JW Marriott Room 301-302
Saturday, March 14 9:30AM - 1:30PM
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Netflix Shares a Decade of A/B Test Learning
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon D
Saturday, March 14 9:30AM - 10:30AM
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OAuth2: The Swiss-Army Framework
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon A
Saturday, March 14 9:30AM - 10:30AM
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Engineering the Future of Awesome on Any Device
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon B
Saturday, March 14 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Going from Design to Code without Going insane
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon E
Saturday, March 14 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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The Power of Disposable Design
Future15
Austin Convention Center Ballroom C
Saturday, March 14 11:00AM - 11:15AM
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Rapid Iteration On Mobile
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon A
Saturday, March 14 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Screw Fuck No, Say Shit Yeah!
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon D
Saturday, March 14 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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UX Prototyping: New Mediums For Designers
Core Conversation
JW Marriott Salon C
Saturday, March 14 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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I Made 180 Websites in 180 Days
Future15
Austin Convention Center Ballroom C
Saturday, March 14 11:15AM - 11:30AM
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This Is Your Brain On Visual Data
Future15
Austin Convention Center Ballroom C
Saturday, March 14 11:30AM - 11:45AM
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Think Outside the Font: How Typefaces Influence
Future15
Austin Convention Center Ballroom C
Saturday, March 14 11:45AM - 12:00PM
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Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions
Book Reading
Austin Convention Center Ballroom G
Saturday, March 14 12:00PM - 12:20PM
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Designing for the Mind
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon B
Saturday, March 14 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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A Frank Lloyd Wright Approach To Digital Design
Future15
Austin Convention Center Ballroom C
Saturday, March 14 12:30PM - 12:45PM
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Is Your Responsive Design Responsive Enough?
Core Conversation
JW Marriott Salon C
Saturday, March 14 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Mentor Session: Shay Howe
Mentor Session
Courtyard Marriott Brazos III
Saturday, March 14 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Start with the Things, Not the Internet
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon D
Saturday, March 14 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Story Structure Secrets
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon E
Saturday, March 14 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Tap, Swipe, Book: Designing for Mobile
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon A
Saturday, March 14 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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How Software Design Can Reduce Energy Consumption
Future15
Austin Convention Center Ballroom C
Saturday, March 14 12:45PM - 1:00PM
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The Medium Is the Deliverable
Future15
Austin Convention Center Ballroom C
Saturday, March 14 1:00PM - 1:15PM
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Design for Fingers, Thumbs and People
Future15
Austin Convention Center Ballroom C
Saturday, March 14 1:15PM - 1:30PM
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Make Social Media POP! with Video
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon E
Saturday, March 14 2:00PM - 3:00PM
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Big Picture Testing: Beyond The One-Off Result
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon B
Saturday, March 14 3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Creating Connections Through Serendipitous Design
Core Conversation
JW Marriott Salon C
Saturday, March 14 3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Design Sprints at Google: UX Methods and Mindset
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon D
Saturday, March 14 3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Designing UI in Keynote for Web and Mobile Apps
Workshop
JW Marriott Salon H
Saturday, March 14 3:30PM - 6:00PM
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Mentor Session: Jason Bender
Mentor Session
Courtyard Marriott Brazos I
Saturday, March 14 3:30PM - 4:30PM
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The More You Node
Workshop
JW Marriott Room 303-304
Saturday, March 14 3:30PM - 6:00PM
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Promoting Your Creative Work on the Web
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon E
Saturday, March 14 3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Using Touch in Creative Design of an Experience
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon A
Saturday, March 14 3:30PM - 4:30PM
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UX and Content Strategy Mindshare Meet Up
Meet Up
JW Marriott Room 502-503
Saturday, March 14 3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Consumer Data: The Good, the Bad, the Not-So-Ugly
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon D
Saturday, March 14 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Designing for Professional Users: A New UX Playbook
Core Conversation
JW Marriott Salon C
Saturday, March 14 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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From Digital Sharecropping to Data Emancipation
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon B
Saturday, March 14 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Green Screen UX: Designing For Context
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon A
Saturday, March 14 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Mentor Session: Andrew Eisenberg
Mentor Session
Courtyard Marriott Brazos I
Saturday, March 14 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Mentor Session: April Chang
Mentor Session
Courtyard Marriott Brazos I
Saturday, March 14 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Mentor Session: Jeff Zwerner
Mentor Session
Courtyard Marriott Brazos II
Saturday, March 14 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Mentor Session: Nathan Hanners
Mentor Session
Courtyard Marriott Brazos III
Saturday, March 14 5:00PM - 6:00PM

Sunday, March 15

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Five Tips to Be a Design’s Surrogate, Not Parent
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon B
Sunday, March 15 9:30AM - 10:30AM
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Inclusive UX in a Rapid Development World
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon D
Sunday, March 15 9:30AM - 10:30AM
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See What I Mean:The Language of the Body
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon A
Sunday, March 15 9:30AM - 10:30AM
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Style Frameworks: Creating Collaborative Standards
Core Conversation
JW Marriott Salon C
Sunday, March 15 9:30AM - 10:30AM
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Beyond The Shelf: Power of Intelligent Packaging
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon A
Sunday, March 15 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Building Responsive Websites Without Code
Workshop
JW Marriott Room 303-304
Sunday, March 15 11:00AM - 1:30PM
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Creative Listening Workshop
Workshop
JW Marriott Room 301-302
Sunday, March 15 11:00AM - 1:30PM
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Designing the UI for the Internet of Things
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon B
Sunday, March 15 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Humanizing Data: Bridging UX Research and Analytics
Core Conversation
JW Marriott Salon C
Sunday, March 15 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Mentor Session: John Goff
Mentor Session
Courtyard Marriott Brazos III
Sunday, March 15 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Mentor Session: Rob Corradi
Mentor Session
Courtyard Marriott Brazos III
Sunday, March 15 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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The Principles of UX Choreography
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon D
Sunday, March 15 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Behind the Wireframe: UX Leadership Secrets
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon B
Sunday, March 15 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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DesignOps Skunkworks: Shoes for the Cobbler’s Kids
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon A
Sunday, March 15 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Discuss Design Without Losing Your Mind
Core Conversation
JW Marriott Salon C
Sunday, March 15 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Magical UX and the Internet of Things
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon D
Sunday, March 15 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Mentor Session: Andre Briggs
Mentor Session
Courtyard Marriott Brazos I
Sunday, March 15 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Mentor Session: Navin Prasad
Mentor Session
Courtyard Marriott Brazos II
Sunday, March 15 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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UX and Data Meet Up
Meet Up
JW Marriott Room 509
Sunday, March 15 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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At a Glance: How Does Type Impact Your Daily Life?
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon D
Sunday, March 15 3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Collaborative Sketching: Jumpstart Your Design!
Workshop
JW Marriott Room 301-302
Sunday, March 15 3:30PM - 6:00PM
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Inclusive AppRoom: Viewing Apps Through Disability
Workshop
JW Marriott Room 310-311
Sunday, March 15 3:30PM - 6:00PM
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Mentor Session: Jared Schwartz
Mentor Session
Courtyard Marriott Brazos III
Sunday, March 15 3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Need for Speed: Optimizing the User Experience
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon A
Sunday, March 15 3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Socks, WTF? Or, Taking Your Digital Brand Physical
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon B
Sunday, March 15 3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Content First: Practical Joke or Ideal Jumpstart?
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon B
Sunday, March 15 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Design in Tech Report
Featured Session
Austin Convention Center Exhibit Hall 5
Sunday, March 15 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Interconnected: The Future of the Experience Web
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon A
Sunday, March 15 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Letting Go: Building Tech for People
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon D
Sunday, March 15 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Little Kids Are Not Stupid: Give Them Content!
Core Conversation
JW Marriott Salon C
Sunday, March 15 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Meet Up: Pinterest Engineering AMA
Meet Up
JW Marriott Room 502-503
Sunday, March 15 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Mentor Session: Brian Wallace
Mentor Session
Courtyard Marriott Brazos III
Sunday, March 15 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Mentor Session: Lori DeBortoli
Mentor Session
Courtyard Marriott Brazos III
Sunday, March 15 5:00PM - 6:00PM

Monday, March 16

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Death to Passwords: Mobile Security Done Right
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon A
Monday, March 16 9:30AM - 10:30AM
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Intro to Ruby on Rails
Workshop
JW Marriott Room 307
Monday, March 16 9:30AM - 6:00PM
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Leading the Startup UX from 0 to 100 Days
Core Conversation
JW Marriott Salon C
Monday, March 16 9:30AM - 10:30AM
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Mobile: How to Build Beyond the Phone
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon B
Monday, March 16 9:30AM - 10:30AM
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Sketchnoting 101
Workshop
JW Marriott Room 310-311
Monday, March 16 9:30AM - 1:30PM
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Testing JavaScript Applications
Workshop
JW Marriott Salon H
Monday, March 16 9:30AM - 1:30PM
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Web vs Mobile: The Continuous Delivery Difference
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon D
Monday, March 16 9:30AM - 10:30AM
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The Clean Up Crew: Maintaining the Monolith
Core Conversation
JW Marriott Salon C
Monday, March 16 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Data Design: Where Math and Art Collide
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon A
Monday, March 16 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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How Potato Salad Killed/Saved Crowdfunding
Solo / Dual / Panel
Austin Convention Center Next Stage
Monday, March 16 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Scala and Reactive Meet Up
Meet Up
JW Marriott Room 502-503
Monday, March 16 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Secrets to Powerful APIs
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon B
Monday, March 16 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Think Like an Animator: Motion on Android
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon D
Monday, March 16 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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HTML5: Tooling and Techniques Meet Up
Meet Up
JW Marriott Room 502-503
Monday, March 16 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Innovating Development of Cloud, Mobile and Social
Solo / Dual / Panel
Radisson Town Lake Riverside Ballroom
Monday, March 16 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Mentor Session: Simon Erich
Mentor Session
Courtyard Marriott Brazos I
Monday, March 16 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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The Mobile UX Revolution - Magnificent or Meh
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon B
Monday, March 16 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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The Rise of the Creative Economy
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon D
Monday, March 16 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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The Science of Happy Design
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon A
Monday, March 16 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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What Snow White Can Tell You About Your Customers
Core Conversation
JW Marriott Salon C
Monday, March 16 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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A/B Testing at Scale: Minimizing UI Complexity
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon A
Monday, March 16 3:30PM - 4:30PM
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The Best Interface Is No Interface
Book Reading
Austin Convention Center Ballroom G
Monday, March 16 3:30PM - 3:50PM
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Developer Dilemma: DIY Storage or Surrender Data?
Core Conversation
JW Marriott Salon C
Monday, March 16 3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Mentor Session: Rob Edgell
Mentor Session
Courtyard Marriott Brazos II
Monday, March 16 3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Pragmatic Security and Rugged DevOps Workshop
Workshop
JW Marriott Salon G
Monday, March 16 3:30PM - 6:00PM
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Spatially Literate Design: Space, Place, and UX
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon B
Monday, March 16 3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Why Is Spec Creative so Wrong, But Feels so Right?
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon D
Monday, March 16 3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Cognitive Rehab: Designing Past Self-Delusion
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon A
Monday, March 16 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Don't Press That! Preventing the Next Black Hole
Core Conversation
JW Marriott Salon C
Monday, March 16 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Dramatic Readings by Programmers of Bug Reports
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon D
Monday, March 16 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Mentor Session: Tatiana Chapira
Mentor Session
Courtyard Marriott Brazos II
Monday, March 16 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Tools of an Industrial Craftsman
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon B
Monday, March 16 5:00PM - 6:00PM
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What Will You Build with Watson on Bluemix?
Solo / Dual / Panel
Radisson Town Lake Riverside Ballroom
Monday, March 16 5:00PM - 6:00PM

Tuesday, March 17

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$1 Prototype: Modern Approach to Mobile UX Design
Workshop
JW Marriott Salon F
Tuesday, March 17 9:30AM - 1:30PM
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Innovation Principles and Practices
Core Conversation
JW Marriott Salon C
Tuesday, March 17 9:30AM - 10:30AM
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Large Drupal Projects
Workshop
JW Marriott Room 303-304
Tuesday, March 17 9:30AM - 1:30PM
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Learn to Embrace Your Immutable Servers
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon A
Tuesday, March 17 9:30AM - 10:30AM
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Learn To Program: Your First Lines of Code
Workshop
JW Marriott Salon G
Tuesday, March 17 9:30AM - 1:30PM
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Lessons Learned Building Web Apps With Go
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon B
Tuesday, March 17 9:30AM - 10:30AM
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ScaaS & Other Lies: Hacking Big Data on the Web
Workshop
JW Marriott Room 306
Tuesday, March 17 9:30AM - 1:30PM
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What's Before Mobile First?
Workshop
JW Marriott Salon H
Tuesday, March 17 9:30AM - 1:30PM
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Artience: Art and Science in the World of Design
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon B
Tuesday, March 17 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Mentor Session: Pamela Pavliscak
Mentor Session
Courtyard Marriott Brazos II
Tuesday, March 17 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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New Users Matter Too! Designing Better Onboarding
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon D
Tuesday, March 17 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Opening The Door To Open Compute
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon A
Tuesday, March 17 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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The Remaking of Airbnb and Eventbrite
Core Conversation
JW Marriott Salon C
Tuesday, March 17 11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Beacon Technology & the Rise of Hyper Localization
Solo / Dual / Panel
Austin Convention Center Ballroom G
Tuesday, March 17 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Rock That Font Meet Up
Meet Up
JW Marriott Room 501
Tuesday, March 17 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Software Innovation Against the Odds
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott Salon B
Tuesday, March 17 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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"BYOC" With A Pocket Full Of WebSockets
Workshop
JW Marriott Salon H
Tuesday, March 17 3:30PM - 6:00PM
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Decoding Design Feedback & Avoiding UX Quagmires
Workshop
JW Marriott Room 301-302
Tuesday, March 17 3:30PM - 6:00PM
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Rapid On-Boarding: Building Password-less Apps
Workshop
JW Marriott Room 306
Tuesday, March 17 3:30PM - 6:00PM
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Shredding Wires With Rapid UX Prototyping
Workshop
JW Marriott Room 307
Tuesday, March 17 3:30PM - 6:00PM
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Story Mapping Your Product
Workshop
JW Marriott Room 310-311
Tuesday, March 17 3:30PM - 6:00PM
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UI Patterns: Then and Now
Workshop
JW Marriott Salon G
Tuesday, March 17 3:30PM - 6:00PM

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