Creative Collaboration: Building Web Apps Together
Room A
Tuesday, March 11th
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
The all-knowledgable webmaster is long gone, replaced by groups of specialists. When they work well together awesome things happen. When they don’t the results are ugly, insecure, inaccessible and slow, assuming they launch at all. What’s the magic that […]
Tuesday Keynote: Jane McGonigal
Room A
Tuesday, March 11th
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
 Jane McGonigal  Creative Dir,  Avant GameÂ
Jane McGonigal
Start with a video trailer of The Lost Ring ARG.
“Please, I need your help - I can’t do this alone”
[the standard call to action of an ARG these days]
So I wanted to start with that […]
The Web That Wasn’t
Room 19AB
Monday, March 10th
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Alex Wright Information Architect, The New York Times
AW: Gonna talk about a lot of early precursors to the web, different versions of hypertext, early thining that went on around how networked information systems. It’s itneresting - not just histrorically, but also […]
From Frustration to Elation: Getting Emotional by Design
Room B
Sunday, March 9th
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Dan Rubin Black Seagull/Sidebar Creative
Eris Stassi  Interaction Designer,  Apple
Didier Hilhorst  Interaction Designer,  IDEO
[Best slides so far and typography]
ES: Introduction - this icon was put together by someone on my team. So you have an attachment […]
The Science of Designing Interactions
Room C
Sunday, March 9th
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Andreas Weigend Principal, People & Data
Ming Yeow Ng Discoverio
AW: Goals of today’s session - want to show you situations where design itneractions can be crucial, show examples of underlying patterns extracted and then will work with the audience and […]
Here’s a quick pick list of the panels that look interesting today:
10am panels:
Everyone’s A Design Critic at Room A, Level 1 with Jason Santa Maria and Rob Weychert
Scope Creep and Other Villains at Room 6, Level 3 with James Archer
Wireframing in a Web 2.0 World at Room B, Level 1 with James Box and […]
What Teens Want Online & On Their Phones
John Davison Pres, What They Like
Anastasia Goodstein Publisher, Ypulse
Saturday, 10am, March 8 2008, Room 9, Level 3
AG: [short intro about what ypulse.com does] Really excited to be here this morning, we have the experts - the teens here today, […]
SXSW 2008: Edit Me! How Gamers are Adopting the Wiki Way
Pribul, Shelton, Burba and McKee.
McKee - from Inside view. Social community.
How many people are in marketing? Web dev? Game development? [It’s not that full an audience, and it’s only the first day. Most people are probably recovering from Ironworks]
Trying to gauge some audience expectations: better […]
 The swag this year really hasn’t been good at all: most of what came in the Interactive and Film bags has gone straight in the recycling bin and, horror of horrors, there aren’t even any good stickers. Or pens.
O’Reilly win the Best Swag award though, thanks to this wonderful thing:
How great is that? Total win.
I’ve been invited to take part in a panel for next year’s SXSW, Stories, Games and Your Brand by my good friend Rachel Clarke, of Behind the Buzz.
Here’s the blurb for the panel:
A look at how interactive gaming, storytelling and puzzles can engage users with your brand. Movie and TV producers are increasingly using these […]
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