Well, it looks like it’s almost spring time, so that means I get to go to Austin again! This will be my second year going to South By Southwest (SXSW) and I couldn’t be more excited.
After reading all the panel descriptions, I think I’ve come up with a pretty good itinerary. Not to detract from last year, but I think this year’s line up of panels will be better than last years. I’m not really sure if it’s that the panels appeal to me more this year versus last year or perhaps it’s the speakers, I don’t know. Regardless, I’m excited. It certainly doesn’t hurt that my hotel this year won’t be miles away from the convention center like it was last year. I’ll be staying at the Hotel Raddison at Town Lake – a mere six blocks from the convention center.
The following is a tentative listing of what I plan to do during my time In Austin. I’ll update this later to include what parties I plan on attending as well.
- Friday, March 9th
- Arrive: 3:40pm
- Saturday, March 10th
- 10:00 am – A Decade of Style
- 11:30 am -How to Bluff Your Way in Web 2.0
- 2:00 pm – Web App Autopsy
- 3:30 pm – Grids Are Good and How to Design with Them
- 4:05 pm – Ruining the User Experience: When JavaScript and Ajax Go Bad or Web Hacks: Good or Evil (or: Welcome to Web 2.666)
- 5:00 pm – High Class and Low Class Web Design
- Sunday, March 11th
- 10:00 am – Designing for Convergent Devices
- 11:30 am – Design Workflows at Work: How Top Designers Work Their Magic
- 2:00 pm – Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Mobile Web…but Were Afraid to Ask
- 3:30 pm – AJAX of Flash: What’s Right for You?
- 4:05 pm – The Future of JavaScript
- 5:00 pm – Uniting the Holy Trinity of Web Design
- Monday, March 12th
- 10:00 am – Barenaked App: The Figure Behind the Top Web Apps
- 11:30 am – Scaling Your Community
- 2:00 pm – The Growth and Evolution of Microformats
- 3:30 pm – Bullet Tooth Web Design: Plan Your Web Site like Pulling off a Robbery
- 4:05pm – Design Patterns: Defining and Sharing Web Interface Design Languages or Javascript: The Big Picture
- 5:00 pm – Nothing?
- Tuesday, March 13th
- 10:00 am – Browser Wars Retrospective: Past, Present and Future Battlefields
- 11:30 am – After Bust 2.0: Ten Years Later, Where Will We Be?
- 2:00 pm – There’s no Such Thing as the Mobile Web (Or Is There?)
- 3:30 pm – The Truth About Mobile & The Future of Personal Devices
- 4:05 pm – Nothing?
- 5:00 pm – Nothing?
