Nick Finck

UX Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2010
Mar 1st, 2010

Recently Dan Mall asked me if I had a list online of your recommended UX panels to see at SXSW.  What a great idea!  Having previously published a list of UX panels to vote on I thought it would be a good idea to comb through the panels that were already accepted and construct a list of UX sessions at SXSW Interactive. Here is what I came up with. 

Lastly, if you spot me at SXSW be sure to say hello and tell me you are a user experience professional, I have some fliers to give you with discount codes for Rosenfeld Media books, but only to those who are attending SXSW Interactive 2010.  See you in Austin!

Friday, March 12th

2:00 PM

• Workshop: Content Strategy: What’s in it for You? Margot Bloomstein
• History of the Button Bill DeRouchey
• The UX of Mobile Barbara Ballard, Tom Limongello, Scott Jenson, & Kyle Outlaw
• Touch + The Holy Grail of Delight Jonathan Hull, Luke Hamilton, & Steven Dawson

3:30 PM

• A Touchy History of the Future Eris Stassi
• Long Distance UX Alex Cook & Lisa Kamm
• What Are Analytics? A Guide To Practical Data Margaret Francis & Blake Robinson
• Understanding Content: The Stuff We Design For Rachel Lovinger & Karen McGrane

5:00 PM

• Time + Social + Location. What’s Next In Mobile Experiences? Naveen Selvadurai, Josh Babetski, & Greg Cypes

Saturday, March 13th

9:30 AM

• Workshop: Re-Inventing the Wheel: Sketching your own IA Process Christopher Fahey
• Add Some XBOX to Your UX Josh Knowles

11:00 AM

• Workshop: The Right Way to Wireframe, Part 1 Todd Zaki Warfel & Russ Unger
• Workshop: CMS Admin. UX Gateway to Heaven or Hell Jane Wells & Steve Fisher
• iPad: New Opportunities for Content Creators Raven Zachary, Bill Jensen, & Shervin Pishevar
• Pen & Paper Tools to Get From Research to Design Kate Rutter

12:30 PM

• Workshop: The Right Way to Wireframe, Part 2 Fred Beecher & Will Evans
• Design Fiction: Props, Prototypes, Predicaments Communicating New Ideas Julian Bleecker, Jake Dunagan, Sascha Pohflepp, Stuart Candy, & Jennifer Leonard

2:00 PM

• Workshop: The Ten Commandments of User Experience Nick Finck & Raina Van Cleave

3:30 PM

• Workshop: User Experience Design Deliverables: Expert’s Choice Lilia Manguy
• Content Strategy FTW Kristina Halvorson

5:00 PM

• Workshop: UX Process Improved: Integrating User Insight Steve Portigal & Aviva Rosenstein
• Video Game Research: Failing Our Way to Victory Erica Firment

Sunday, March 14th

9:30 AM

• Augmenting Maps with Reality Chris Pendleton, Ryan Sarver, & Laura Diaz
• Social Gaming: Lessons from the Pioneers Sebastien de Halleux, Omar Abdelwahed, Gareth Davis, Eric Todd, & Jon David

11:00 AM

• Gaming the Crowd: Turning Work Into Play Andy Baio

12:30 PM

• Persuasive Design: Encouraging Your Users To Do What You Want Them To! Andy Budd
• Writing Web Content For A Living Erin Anderson, Tiffani Jones, Ian Alexander, & Dan Maccarone

5:00 PM

• Workshop: Product Prototyping with Customers - Rapid Experiments Vidya Dinamani
• Search Patterns: Tangible Futures for Discovery Peter Morville

Monday, March 15th

9:30 AM

• The Art & Science of Seductive Interactions Stephen Anderson

12:30 PM

• Revealing Design Treasures from the Amazon Jared Spool

2:00 PM

• Tapworthy: Designing iPhone Interfaces for Delight and Usability Josh Clark

3:30 PM

• Beyond the Desktop: Embracing New Interaction Paradigms Peter Merholz, Michele Perras, David Merrill, Johnny Lee, & Nathan Moody
• My Three-Year Old Is My Usability Expert Dave Stanton
• Augmented Reality - Gimmicky Trend or Market-Ready Technology? Richard Lent

5:00 PM

• No Touching! Truly Invisible Interfaces Ron Goldin

Tuesday, March 16th

9:30 AM

• Prototyping Web Apps - Nobody Loves a Wireframe Darren Delaye & Michael Leggett
• Do Evolutions In Design Thinking Promote Innovation? Carola Thompson, Kevin Kearney, Nicky Smyth, & Jim Nieters

11:00 AM

• Pervasive Games and Playful Experiences: Rendering the Real World Toby Barnes, Clare Reddington, Nina Steiger, Duncan Speakman, &  Simon Johnson

5:00 PM

• Beyond Scifi: Design For Surfaces and Big Screens Colombene Jenner & Daniel Williams
• The Future of Social Gaming: 2012 and Beyond John Pleasants

This list is vetted to include only sessions at SXSW Interactive 2010 that focus specifically on user experience.  If you fill I missed a session please let me know, but be forewarned your suggestions will be vetted.