SXSWi 2011 Panel Roundup

Aug

12

by Tiffani Jones Brown

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