2:00 PM
to 3:00 PM
The UX of Mobile
99 schedule::attendees
Location
Ballroom B
eventtype Panel, Interactive
Speaker/Artist(s) Info Barbara Ballard, Tom Limongello, Scott Jenson, Kyle Outlaw
event::about The term 'user experience' used to be an afterthought in mobile application design. The iPhone changed all that and has set a new benchmark for user experience on mobile devices. This panel will serve as a primer for anyone interested in learning how to apply UX principles to the creation of...
event::tags Design & Development
3:30 PM
to 4:30 PM
Long Distance UX
55 schedule::attendees
Location
Ballroom B
eventtype Panel, Interactive
Speaker/Artist(s) Info Alex Cook, Lisa Kamm
event::about Collaboration is key to the UX process, but it becomes increasingly difficult across locations. Working remotely with engineers, product managers and other UX'ers is challenging. Learn how members of the Google UX team work with other offices and team members domestically and internationally to create the best user experiences possible.
event::tags Design & Development
5:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
Time + Social + Location. What's Next In Mobile Experiences?
97 schedule::attendees
Location
Ballroom B
eventtype Panel, Interactive
Speaker/Artist(s) Info Naveen Selvadurai, Josh Babetski, Greg Cypes
event::about As more devices become location aware, social uses will continue to evolve beyond just who and what, to WHEN. Adding the temporal dimension creates new opportunities for social interaction. Learn about ways to leverage and use technology to add features at the intersection of temporal, social, and location.
event::tags Design & Development
9:30 AM
to 10:30 AM
Web Fonts: The Time Has Come
87 schedule::attendees
Location
Ballroom B
eventtype Panel, Interactive
Speaker/Artist(s) Info Stephen Coles, Roger Black, Jeffrey Veen, Bert Bos, David Berlow
event::about After 15 years of contenting ourselves with system fonts, or image type, the planets are now in line for getting real fonts on the web. Some solutions are already working, and a cross-platform standard is emerging. Here web designer and type designers mix it up on how the font hurdles is...
event::tags Design & Development
11:00 AM
to 12:00 PM
Pen & Paper Tools to Get From Research to Design
44 schedule::attendees
Location
Ballroom B
eventtype Panel, Interactive
Speaker/Artist(s) Info Kate Rutter
event::about In the world of user experience, learning about your customers is key to making great stuff. But design research reports are dense and boring. Unlock the power of sketching and pen and paper tools to create research outputs that are vibrant, sticky and that reflect personality, human perspective and that move...
event::tags Design & Development
12:30 PM
to 1:30 PM
Designing the First Fifteen Minutes
101 schedule::attendees
Location
Ballroom B
eventtype Panel, Interactive
Speaker/Artist(s) Info Daniel Burka, Rob Goodlatte
event::about That user who just signed up is about to bail. And a thousand other people just stopped in but didn't even bother to register. Your product is great, but your users don't stay long enough to find that out. The first fifteen minutes of your product are the most important. Learn...
event::tags Design & Development
3:30 PM
to 4:30 PM
Drupal in the Cloud!
17 schedule::attendees
Location
Ballroom B
eventtype Panel, Interactive
Speaker/Artist(s) Info Josh Koenig
event::about In the summer of 2009, Chapter Three launched Pantheon, an open-source cloud hosting initiative for the Drupal development community. In this talk, CTO Josh Koenig dissects "The Cloud" as a concept, gives a tour of the marketplace for cloud services, and digs into what it takes to build a application on...
event::tags Design & Development
5:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
Engines of Sociality: 2010 and Beyond
15 schedule::attendees
Location
Ballroom B
eventtype Panel, Interactive
Speaker/Artist(s) Info Erik Lumer
event::about The explosion of the real-time web enables an unprecedented level of social interaction and information exchange. Yet tools have been lacking to effectively separate signal from noise and help users keep up with the sheer volume of real-time sources. The dominant web search paradigms are largely inadequate for this new medium....
event::tags Design & Development
9:30 AM
to 10:30 AM
Beyond LAMP: Scaling Websites Past MySQL
43 schedule::attendees
Location
Ballroom B
eventtype Panel, Interactive
Speaker/Artist(s) Info Serkan Piantino, Alan Schaaf, Kevin Weil, Christopher Slowe, Jason Kincaid
event::about Most startups begin with a basic LAMP stack (on PHP or Python) and then add database replication and memcache as they grow. But then what? There's a big gap between these out-of-the-box solutions and what it takes to run something bigger.
event::tags Design & Development
11:00 AM
to 12:00 PM
Drink Tea: Designing with Middle Eastern Customers
6 schedule::attendees
Location
Ballroom B
eventtype Panel, Interactive
Speaker/Artist(s) Info Kate Walser
event::about Your next customer could be in the Middle East. Countries like Iraq, UAE, and Jordan and their US divisions are looking to US firms for design and branding help. Find out how cultural differences impact the design process and learn how to create a respectful and productive relationship and design a...
event::tags Design & Development
12:30 PM
to 1:30 PM
Persuasive Design: Encouraging Your Users To Do What You Want Them To!
76 schedule::attendees
Location
Ballroom B
eventtype Panel, Interactive
Speaker/Artist(s) Info Andy Budd
event::about So you've designed a great product, fixed a stack of usability problems and spent a fortune on marketing. The only problem is, people aren't using it. In this session you will learn how to get your users to do what you want them to through good design, human psychology and a...
event::tags Design & Development
3:30 PM
to 4:30 PM
Experimental Design: Your User Interface Is Your Laboratory
64 schedule::attendees
Location
Ballroom B
eventtype Panel, Interactive
Speaker/Artist(s) Info Kevin Hale, Mike McDerment, Victoria Ransom, Ben Tilly
event::about We all know that great designs can only come from the genius of great designers. Except that is complete crap. Great designs come from extensive user testing and making tons of iterations. Learn how the best-designed web apps extensively iterate and test their user interfaces to find what truly works.
event::tags Design & Development
5:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
Improving Social Media With Live Streaming Video
21 schedule::attendees
Location
Ballroom B
eventtype Panel, Interactive
Speaker/Artist(s) Info Brad Hunstable
event::about In an age where everyone from Cash Money Records to Pepsi to the U.S. Army is touting the value of social media, where do streaming video services fit in? The answer lies in the power of live. Learn about some of the incredible results that have been achieved by employing live...
event::tags Design & Development
9:30 AM
to 10:30 AM
Managing Your Content Management System
33 schedule::attendees
Location
Ballroom B
eventtype Panel, Interactive
Speaker/Artist(s) Info Alex Will, Henry Erskine Crum
event::about An effective content management system is a must for any content-based web service. This technical session will discuss elements of designing and building a custom CMS that leverages technology and existing web data from sources such as Flickr and Wikipedia to automate research and increase time spent writing original content.
event::tags Design & Development
11:00 AM
to 12:00 PM
R.I.P. Content Management System
42 schedule::attendees
Location
Ballroom B
eventtype Panel, Interactive
Speaker/Artist(s) Info Dries Buytaert
event::about The medium is the message. On the web, the medium is community. This shift has made legacy CMS products as outdated as scribes and printing presses. Open source technologies are disrupting this market and moving into mainstream enterprises. Join Drupal founder Dries Buytaert as he discuss how social publishing will bring...
event::tags Design & Development
12:30 PM
to 1:30 PM
ExpressionEngine 2.0: Total Domination!
32 schedule::attendees
Location
Ballroom B
eventtype Panel, Interactive
Speaker/Artist(s) Info Brian Warren, Jenn Lukas, Kenny Meyers, Mark Huot, Ryan Irelan
event::about ExpressionEngine is growing in popularity and with the release of 2.0, it's power has expanded to the stratosphere. Powering great websites such as Change.gov, A List Apart, and Campaign Monitor, it represents an amazing way to build websites and publish content. Join us as 5 experts give best practices from a...
event::tags Design & Development
3:30 PM
to 4:30 PM
Mobile Development with the Flash Platform: iPhone and More
13 schedule::attendees
Location
Ballroom B
5:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
Web Education Rocks: 2010 WaSP InterAct Annual Meeting
18 schedule::attendees
Location
Ballroom B
eventtype Panel, Interactive
Speaker/Artist(s) Info Leslie Jensen-Inman, Jeffrey Brown, Glenda Sims
event::tags Design & Development
9:30 AM
to 10:30 AM
Do Evolutions In Design Thinking Promote Innovation?
18 schedule::attendees
Location
Ballroom B
eventtype Panel, Interactive
Speaker/Artist(s) Info Carola Thompson, Kevin Kearney, Nicky Smyth, Jim Nieters
event::about This panel highlights the evolution of User Experience as a discipline, and analyzes how different tactics and strategies introduced by experience organizations impact companies' innovation pipelines. Panelists compare global experiences across industries, and debate which factors promote innovation, versus which do not. Some factors widely considered valuable apparently deliver little value....
event::tags Design & Development
11:00 AM
to 12:00 PM
No Straight Lines: Straight Line Thinking Stops Here
12 schedule::attendees
Location
Ballroom B
eventtype Panel, Interactive
Speaker/Artist(s) Info Alan Moore
event::about ''I needs we, to truly be I,'' wrote Carl Jung, and that is why we as a species are on a quest to rediscover our role in society. Humanity, deconstructed, over the last 50 years, to the point of deconstruction is deploying technologies of cooperation to regain its true identity. The...
event::tags Design & Development
12:30 PM
to 1:30 PM
Swarming Plato's Cave: Rethinking Digital Fantasies
10 schedule::attendees
Location
Ballroom B
eventtype Panel, Interactive
Speaker/Artist(s) Info William Burdette, Timothy Schultz, John Jones, Henri Mazza, Amanda French
event::about Technology has always been packaged with promises of better democracy, media, education, minds, and bodies. An intellectual tradition, from Plato onward, questions whether technology can actually deliver on these promises. Working from--and questioning--this tradition, we will examine how material technology is inextricable from fantasies of an ideal world.
event::tags Design & Development
3:30 PM
to 4:30 PM
Cracking the Books ' User-Generated Content in Education
7 schedule::attendees
Location
Ballroom B
eventtype Panel, Interactive
Speaker/Artist(s) Info Clyde Boyer, Ron Reed, Anita Givens, Margarita Pinkos
event::about "Age considers; youth ventures." This aphorism has never seemed more real than in a typical U.S. public school classroom: the students are operating on several levels simultaneously in media-saturated environments, while classroom teachers and publishers all seem to be standing on the sidelines, trying to catch up.
event::tags Design & Development
5:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
Here Be Dragons ' Open Source Textbooks in K-12
6 schedule::attendees
Location
Ballroom B
eventtype Panel, Interactive
Speaker/Artist(s) Info Keith Mitchell, Hugh Norwood, Joel Thierstein, Tom Burnett
event::about For decades, large publishing companies have œowned the content we were taught, and in so doing structured the way teachers and schools delivered education. As Open Source publishing development expands moves, we are left with many questions about what students should be taught and how.
event::tags Design & Development
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