Solo / Dual / Panel by Christina Wodtke on Friday 8th March
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 ...
Solo / Dual / Panel by Brendan Wallace, Jeremiah Owyang, Michelle Accardi, Tim Piatenko on Friday 8th March
Is Gamification fulfilling its promise and where is it taking us now? The buzz of gamification is still humming along, mainly because of its tantalizing promise: there are fairly obvious ...
Solo / Dual / Panel by David Merkoski on Saturday 9th March
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 ...
Book Reading by Jason Nunes on Saturday 9th March
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 ...
Solo / Dual / Panel by Thomas Phinney on Saturday 9th March
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 ...
Core Conversation by Frank Moss, Scott Stropkay on Saturday 9th March
Future healthcare innovation success will be defined by the experience delivered to patients, caregivers, and physicians in hospitals, homes and at retail. New technologies such as mobile apps, wearable sensors, ...
At Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol, Capitol View North (map)
Solo / Dual / Panel by Jennifer Jongsma, Joe Hanson on Saturday 9th March
Many people think of science as abstract and numerical. But most of science is remarkably visual. Design plays an important role in science communication, but it's more than just creating ...
At Omni Downtown, Longhorn (map)
Workshops by Joel Beukelman, Ted Boda on Saturday 9th March
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 ...
Future15 by Robert Stribley on Saturday 9th March
One of the greatest lessons we can teach people as experience designers is that everything is not important. It seems an easy lesson to learn, since after all, it's our ...
Solo / Dual / Panel by Henrik Berggren, Jan Senderek, Natalie Downe, Nico Perez on Saturday 9th March
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 ...
Solo / Dual / Panel by Jaime Woo on Saturday 9th March
Grindr, the popular location-based app for men seeking men, started four years ago and now has a user base of five million. The service continues to grow at a rapid ...
Mentor Session by Q Manning on Saturday 9th March
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 ...
At Hilton Garden Inn Austin Downtown, 10th Floor Atrium (map)
Solo / Dual / Panel by Hunter Tura, José Colucci, Matthias Hollwich, Sari Gilman on Saturday 9th March
We are aging but are we aging well? There are currently 17,000 nursing homes in America, and the same number of reasons not to move into them. These facilities could ...
At Omni Downtown, Longhorn (map)
Meet Up on Sunday 10th March
Following the success of our Agency Meet Up in 2012, we are excited to announce another round of SXSW Recruiter Meet Ups now expanding to our four day program! This ...
Future15 by Daniel Buckley on Sunday 10th March
Human beings are advanced dynamic systems. Each of us interfaces with our emotions differently. Consequently, we interface with each other in desirable and undesirable ways through various access points. My ...
Meet Up by Jim Kidwell on Sunday 10th March
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 ...
At Proof Annex (map)
Solo / Dual / Panel by Michael Meyer on Sunday 10th March
The future of telepresence sits at a hybrid intersection of robotics, consumer electronics, medical devices, and even aerospace and housewares -- and the primary driver behind this explosion is design. ...
Featured Session by Mickey McManus on Sunday 10th March
The web is over, it was a cute lab experiment, the sort of toy that Nature watches her children play with and laughs. Six billion mobile devices. Eight? Ten? Cute ...
Solo / Dual / Panel by Jonty Sharples on Sunday 10th March
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 ...
Solo / Dual / Panel by Brian Sullivan on Sunday 10th March
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 ...
Solo / Dual / Panel by Alex Morris on Sunday 10th March
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 ...
At Radisson Hotel & Suites Austin-Town Lake, Town Lake Ballroom (map)
Future15 by Craig Peters on Sunday 10th March
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, ...
Future15 by Steve Simula on Sunday 10th March
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 ...
on Sunday 10th March
SXSW's first live digital design battle featuring celebrity artists with LIVE sounds from world renowned DJ, RAC and complimentary cocktails.
At The Belmont (map)
Solo / Dual / Panel by Alex Breuer, Dan Gardner, Dave Rupert on Monday 11th March
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 ...
Next Stage on Monday 11th March
Bike Hugger's Built is back for SXSW 2013 with another Make and Tell event. This audience favorite features a series of talks by people who create, reveal their design process, ...
Future15 by Carina Ngai on Monday 11th March
The stereotypical product image for seniors entails bigger buttons, bigger text, and bigger screens. When it comes to designing for the elderly, it is not necessary to dumb down technologies. ...
Featured Session by Jared Spool, Leslie Jensen-Inman on Monday 11th March
Empathic. Collaborative. Constructive. Fast. These are just some of the words that today's hiring managers use to describe the new New Hire. As our mediums change, so do our expectations ...
Solo / Dual / Panel by Corey Chandler, Jorge Furuya Mariche on Monday 11th March
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 ...
Meet Up on Monday 11th March
Kicking off the Meet Up Pavilion on March 11th is the second recruiting round of “I Met My Agency @ SXSW” focusing on professional technical designers and innovators. Current agency ...
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