This year SXSW really came through with some great panels, which sent me home energized and focused, ready to affect change and be a better design. The short list There probably were some really dreadful panels this year too; I just did a good job of sniffing them out so that near everything I saw [...]
“I thought we were in a recession?” I heard as we took our free tee-shirts from the Gowalla Airstream and rounded the corner towards the Pepsi Playland and the new CNN Grill. Yeah, this is not the Austin I remember. This was my fourth SXSW Interactive conference in the past five year, but having missed [...]
This is my first panel submission for SXSW Interactive, and I’d like to quickly sate why I think you should vote for it. Rock Web Form Design like an 80s Hair Band Have you ever listened to some music while your working and found the symphony of ideas. You were just thinking that there were [...]
As an homage to my closing line in the great movie by Tom Crenshaw at SXSWi 08, Selena designed this button (right) of what I have heard called the cutest little poo ever. I also heard it called the best button at South by which made me very proud of my talented designer wife. I [...]
Over the past two SXSWi conferences I have taken copious detailed notes on the laptop, and been uninspired to do much sifting through them once I got home. (I think I made this one blog post). This year, I bought a nice new unlined notebook and pen and went the old-fashioned route of taking notes [...]
If you are on Twitter, you can befriend @SouthByScruvy. Who is this? It’s a virus, both literally and figuratively. Many of us came back from SXSW with a nasty flu-like virus. My friend, Jason, jokingly wrote on Twitter that he’s pretty sure that we all had scurvy. I followed up by confirming that diagnosis, with [...]
The South by Southwest conference in Austin once again proved to be a fantastic opportunity to feel the pulse of the industry and see where the bleeding edge is and how much catching up we have to do. I will happy to discover that this year I didn’t feel at all behind the curve. My [...]
It’s so simple really, and not at all new. It’s the original Facebook model, before it became huge. Twitter is about proximity. Over the past year I have sent about 100 Twitter “tweets”. Over the past week I doubled that. Why? All the people who I am following, and who were following me, were all [...]
For the next four days I will be at the SXSW Web conference in Austin TX. This conference includes four days of 4-5 panels each day plus 1-3 networking events every evening. It is full emersion into the web design world, and I came away from last year’s completely inspired and motivated, loving my craft [...]
