UX Magazine put together a list of UX & UX related talks and presentations for this year’s SXSW Interaction conference.
I am really, really, really hoping to make it, but time is running out and I’m getting a sinking feeling.
Well, if you go, and have an interest in UX, please rub it in my face (and tell me all about it).
Friday, March 11
2:00 PM
- Web 3.0 and Human Computation: Ancient Mayan Legacy – Javier Gramajo-Lopez
3:30 PM
- The Accidental Writer: Great Web Copy for Everyone – Melanie Seibert
- App, Shmapp, Tell Me What Works Across Platforms! – Aaron Forth
- Do Agencies Need to Think Like Software Companies? – Panel discussion
- The Potential of Augmented Reality for Education – Panel discussion
5:00 PM
- Games User Research: Oh no! You’re Doing It Wrong! – Panel discussion
- Not My Job: The Ultimate Content Strategy Smackdown – Panel discussion, including UX Magazine contributor Kristina Halvorson
Saturday, March 12
9:30 AM
- Data-Driven Government: Improving the Citizen Experience – Panel discussion
- Designing Stuff Kids Will Use and Love – Panel discussion
- How Print Design is the Future of Interaction – Mike Kruzeniski
- How Progress Bars Change the Way We Live – Evan Jones
- iPad Design Headaches (2 Tablets, Call in the Morning) – Josh Clark
- Stop Listening to Your Customers – Mark Trammell and UX Magazine contributor Nate Bolt
11:00 AM
- Believe Me or Your Own Eyes: Eye-Tracking Entertainment – Panel discussion
- Inclusive Mobility – Making Mobile Apps Accessible – Becky Gibson
- What Comic Books Can Teach Mobile Application Designers – Anjuan Simmons
- Your Mom Has an iPad: Designing for Boomers – John McRee
12:30 PM
- Communicating with Everyone: Improving Accessibility of Information Products – Brenda Huettner
- Guerrilla Research Methods – UX Magazine contributor Todd Zaki Warfel
- Inclusive Design: Creating Beautiful, Usable & Accessible Websites – Ian Pouncey and Sandi Wassmer
- Ordering Disorder: Grid Design for the New World – Khoi Vinh
- Technical vs. Creative? Ridiculous! Quality Requires Both – John Davis
- Time Traveling: Interfaces for Geotemporal Visualization – Panel discussion
12:45 PM
3:30
- The Behavior Change Checklist. Down With Gamefication – UX Magazine contributor Aza Raskin
- Behind the Curtain: Secrets of Mobile Application Wizardry – Paul Gelb
- Changing the Web Accessibility Game Plan – Jared Smith
- Design Across Disciplines – Matthew Robbins and UX Magazine contributor Elaine Wherry
- Semantically Yours: Dating Tips for the Semantic Web – Christine Connors
- Social Media Data Visualization: Mapping the World’s Conversations – Panel discussion
5:00 PM
- Augmented Reality for Marketers: Future of Consumer Interactions – John Havens and Lynne D. Johnson
- Metrics-Driven Design – Joshua Porter
Sunday, March 13
9:30 AM
- Can The Internet Make Us Happy? – Panel discussion
- Creative and Effective Leadership in Design Environments – Sarah B. Nelson
- Mobilizing Performance from Search – Rich Devine
- The Music of Interaction Design – Cennyd Bowles and James Box
11:00 AM
- App Savvy – Think First, Code Later – Panel discussion
- Designing iPad Interfaces – New Navigation Schemas – Lynn Teo
- Dork Intervention: Bringing Design to Agile- Karl Nieberding and Kris Corzine
- Finding Music With Pictures: Data Visualization for Discovery – Paul Lamere
- People as Peripherals: The Future of Gesture Interface – Lee Shupp
- Secret Revealed: How to be Successful (with Accessibility) – Desiree Sturdevant and Shawn Henry
- UX Research & Web Analytics: X-Ray Insights – Austin Govella, Fred Beecher, and Louis Rosenfeld
12:30 PM
- The Art of Enchantment – Guy Kawasaki
- Design-Driven Innovation: How Designers Facilitate the Dialog – Carola Thompson and Jim Nieters
- Fail Big, Fail Often: How Fear Limits Creativity – Panel discussion
- The Future of Touch User Interface Design – Amish Patel and Kay Hofmeester
- Health: Is There Really an App for That? – Panel discussion
- No Excuse: Web Designers Who Can’t Code – Panel discussion
- Non-Visual Augmented Reality and the Evaporation of the Interface – Aaron Parecki and Amber Case
- The Untapped iPad Market: Is Your Site POUR? – Glenda Watson Hyatt and Karen Tsang
3:30 PM
- Clients Are Not the Target Audience. Users Are – Anton Repponen and Jonathan Bowden
- Do Tablets Dream of Electric News? – Erin Sparling and Jennifer Brook
- People Like You and I: Driving People-powered Web Discovery – Seth Sternberg
4:30 PM
- Interactive Branding and the Built Environment – Jamie Monberg
5:00 PM
- Apps vs. Mobile Web: Which to Reach Consumers? – Patrick Mork
- Cure for the Common Font – Panel discussion
- Diving Deep: Best Practices For Interviewing Users – Steve Portigal
- Fun With The Lights Off: Interactivity Without Graphics – Panel discussion
- Jeffrey Zeldman’s Awesome Internet Design Panel – Panel discussion
- Recommendation Engines: Going Beyond the Social Graph – Panel discussion
- Where Web Typography Goes To Next – Richard Rutter
Monday, March 14
9:30 AM
- Can The Games Industry Learn From Web UX – Panel discussion
- Conserve Code: Storyboard Experiences with Customers First – Joseph O’Sullivan and Rachel Evans
- How to Personalize Without Being Creepy – Panel discussion
- Touching Stories: Designing Digital Magazines for the iPad – Matthew Carlson and Matthew Davis
11:00 AM
- 5 Steps to Bulletproof UX Strategy – Robert Hoekman, Jr.
- Cross-Platform Multi-Screen Development – Panel discussion including UX Magazine contributor Andre Charland
11:30 AM
- 3 Screens, 1 Cloud: Creating Optimal Connected Experiences – DeVaris Brown
11:45 AM
- Designing Video-Rich Websites For All Three Screens – Jesse Streb
12:00 PM
- How Small Screens are Making iTV Big – Colombene Jenner
12:30 PM
- Comedic Communication: Developing User-centered Humor Design – Panel discussion
- Designing a Seamless Web to Mobile Experience – Omar Green
- Game On: 7 Design Patterns For User Engagement – Nadya Direkova
- Interactive Narratives: Creating the Future of Storytelling – Panel discussion
- Personalized Interfaces and the Arrival of Smart TV – David Maher Roberts
- Thunder in the Clouds – Michael Cote and Parker Harris
3:30 PM
- Behavior Design: Stop Being Neutral, Start Influencing Decisions – Brad Nunnally, Chris Risdon, and Nicholas J. Disabato
- Critical Thinking for UX Designers (Or Anyone, Really) – Christina Wodtke and UX Magazine contributor Russ Unger
- Having Fun Yet? 10 Usability Heuristics For Games – Corey Chandler and John-Mark Josling
- Kiosks, Mobile and the Evolving Retail Experience – FK Funderburke and Hilding Anderson
- Moving the Web onto Mobile Devices – Panel discussion
- Voting: The 233-Year-Old Design Problem – Panel discussion including UX Magazine contributor Dana Chisnell
5:00 PM
- Anatomy of a Design Decision – Jared Spool
- Design Intersection – Cultural Sustainability and Civic Engagement – Beth Ferguson and Mouna Andraos
- DIY Diplomacy: Designing Collaborative Gov – Panel discussion
- Interactive Patterns in the Mobile Space – Barbara Ballard
- OAuth, OpenID, Facebook Connect: Authentication Design Best Practices – James Reffell
- Our Devices: How Smart is too Smart? – Genevieve Bell
- Understanding Humans: New Psychology and the Social Web – Gavin Bell and Jyri Engestrom
5:30 PM
- The Intersection Between Mobile and TV – Craig Negoescu
5:45 PM
- Designing for iPhone – whurley Hurley
Tuesday, March 15
9:30 AM
- Accessibility for the Visually Impaired: Groundbreaking New Technologies – Genevieve Wilkins and Michael Cooper
- Innovating & Developing with Libraries, Archives & Museums – Panel discussion
- Long After the Thrill: Sustaining Passionate Users – UX Magazine contributor Stephen Anderson
- Made It So (Interface Makers in Movies) – Panel discussion
11:00 AM
- Can Design and Technology Fix America’s Education Problem? – Dennis Littky, Steven Tomilson, and UX Magazine contributor Jon Kolko
- Designing Ideas, Not Objects – Rober Brunner
12:30 PM
- Gamestorming – Dave Gray, James Macanufo, and Sunni Brown
- Real Tech Rockstars: Engineers or Designers? – Aaron Patzer, Jason Putorti, and Jessi Hempel
3:30 PM
- Adaptive Path: 10 Years Of Making Things Awesome-r – Peter Merholz, Jesse James Garrett, and Lara Kirkwood-Datta
- Creation, Curation, and the Ethics of Content Strategy – Margot Bloomstein
- Lean UX: Getting Out of the Deliverables Business – Jeff Gothelf
5:00 PM
- Curb Your Experience: Pushing the UX to Extreme – Jenine Lurie
- Steve Krug Explains It All for You – Steve Krug
