Archive from March, 2009
journey to the center of design
jared spool is my cruise director.
It’s time to retire the dogma of user-centered design. Instead, we should focus on informed design and build a reward system based on informed measurements: vision, feedback, and culture (three core UX attributes).
- Presenter
- Jared freakin’ Spool, UIE
- Date
- Sunday, March 15
- Sites
- UIE
- brain sparks
- putting a ring on it
version control: no more save as…
Version control can save your life and make you happy.
- Presenters
- Matt Mullenweg – Automattic/WordPress
- Karen Nguyen – Yahoo!
- Zach Nies – Rally Software Development
- Joe Pezzillo – joepezzillo.com, @metafy
- Derek Scruggs – SurveyGizmo
- Date
- Sunday, March 15
- Sites
- phpadvent article
- trac
- cornerstone
- versions
- Beanstalk
- mecurial
microformats: a quiet revolution
If you use large sites like Google, Yahoo!, or Microsoft, you’re using microformats. If you use twitter or WordPress, you’re using microformats. So there is a lot of life to the use of microformats. Even past the death of a site that uses microformats: the use of microformats helps that information be archived elsewhere.
- Presenters
- Tantek Çelik – tantek.com
- Karsten Januszewski – Microsoft
- Glenn Jones – Madgex
- Jeremy Keith – Clearleft Ltd
- Date
- Saturday, March 14
- Sites
- microformats wiki
- oomph project
- huffduffer
- madgex: the lab
- google social graph API
- yahoo query language
try making yourself more interesting
Does this matter? If this product/site went away, would you care? Would your users care? Keep yourself interesting by experimenting without boundaries while planning your commitment.
- Presenters
- Brian Oberkirch, small good thing
- DL Byron, textura design
- Amit Gupta, photojojo
- Kristina Halvorson, Brain Traffic
- Lane Becker, Get Satisfaction / Adaptive Path
- Date
- Friday, March 13
- Site
- podcast
ooooh! that’s clever!
Sharing secrets: hiding things in plain sight generates a special connection between the site and its audience generates delight and generates a desire to share the secret.
everything you know about web design is wrong
When you should get design involved? At the beginning along with everything else. You can’t compartmentalize anymore (marketing, business, design, tech; design: interaction, information, visual, info architecture). You can teach in compartments, but you can’t work in compartments. Education has to start out compartmentalized but with a goal to aggregate (inter-disciplinary capstone projects planned from the very first freshman class). You get people to swing back and forth from being the expert to being the smart guy in the room.
i feel mature.
this is my third sxsw. i’m a veteran. i’ve tried thinking about what i am here to do. yes, it’s always been a place where i refresh my professional side. i learn all the things that i should be focusing on for the next year. that’s still going to happen. but this year seems different. i’ve started down a road with some peers in little rock that i think will be quite innovative and successful. those people are here with me at sxsw, and i’ll be learning from them as much as i’ll be learning from the panelists.
i’m here for ideas. i’m here to really connect with my peers and professional counterparts. i’m here to make the most of it.