Here’s a longlist of SXSW Interactive proposals we think look intriguing. (Obvious skew toward design and content here). I had a few search woes with the panel picker interface, so these submissions have been panned from an old-fashioned scouring of the list. Apologies if your panel looks good and I missed it—I’ll add gold as it surfaces.
Design-Related
Organizing Disorder: Grid Design for the New World
Khoi Vinh, Subtraction.com
Websites Aren’t Enough: the New Interaction Design
Dan Mall, Big Spaceship
Design, Meet Content: Exploring Content-Driven Design
Matt Brown and Tiffani Jones Brown (that’s us) of thingsthatarebrown and Second and Park
Delightful Experiences: There’s a Mushroom In My Website
Thomas Lewis, Microsoft
One Year Later: The Pepsi Refresh Project
Andrew Katz, Pepsi
Interaction Jones and the Template of Doom
Naz Hamid, Weighshift
Anatomy of a Design Decision
Jared Spool, User Interface Engineering
Content / Content Strategy
The Content Economy and the Webs Rumored Demise
Richard Ziade of Arc90 Inc; Jeff MacIntyre of Predicate LLC; Paul Ford of Harper’s; Jennifer 8 Lee, former journalist for the New York Times; Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper and lead developer at Tumblr
Not My Job: The Ultimate Content Strategy Smackdown
Kristina Halvorson, Brain Traffic
Creation, Content, and the Ethics of Content Strategy
Margot Bloomstein, Appropriate, Inc
The Art & Science of Influential Web Content
Colleen Jones, Content Science
The Five Elements of Hip-Hop/Content Strategy
Ian Alexander, Eat Media LLC
Intrigue Me, Writing Compelling, Credible Content
Stephanie Hay, Stephanie Hay, LLC
The Accidental Writer: Great Web Copy for Everyone
Melanie Seibert, Prose Kiln
15 Slides, Three Writers, Three Ways—One Hour
Michael Lopp of Self, John Gruber of Daringfireball, Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners
Imagining a Nimble Word: Challenging the Publishing Industry
Rachel Lovinger, Razor Fish
Managing Work / The Biz
Your Meetings Suck and It’s Your Fault
Kevin Hoffman, Happy Cog
Breaking Taboos: Pros Get Real About Money Matters
Marc Hemeon, Oakley
Company Culture: It’s All Your Fault
Greg Hoy, Happy Cog
Maintaining Your Humility While Enjoying Your Success
Whitney Hess, Independent Consultant
Making Memories Capturing Your Awkward Social Media Years
Kenny Meyers, Happy Magic Fun Time
Journalism
Predictions and the News: Getting the Future Right
Matt Thompson, NPR
Why Journalists Need to Think Like Geeks
Blake Elskin, The New Yorker
Can Geeks Save Journalism?
Ethan Beard, Facebook.com
Assorted Awesome
Developers: Saving the Web From Your Dick Move
Jenn Lukas, Happy Cog
Rebooting Iceland: Crowdsourcing Innovation in Uncertain Times
Finnur Magnusson, Agora
How to Make A Hit Podcast
Charles Bryant, HowStuffWorks.com
