Archive from March, 2009

putting a ring on jared spool

jared spool and i pointing to our ring fingers


jared spool

Originally uploaded by seagreenme

If you were there, you understand. If you weren’t there, feel free to add your own captions to this photo of jared spool and me. Jared is the founding principal of User Interface Engineering (UIE), and gives a damn good presentation. lessig, eat your heart out.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Presenter
Paul Annett, clearleft
@nicepaul
Date
Friday, March 13
Sites
podcast
clearleft

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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.

Presenter
dan willis, sapient
@uxcranks
Date
Friday, March 13
Site
podcast
ux crank
the pdf
Books Mentioned
the experience economy. pine, gilmore.

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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.

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