Tjeed Hoek I actually ended up in this session by chance. My original choose “Designing Social Media Interfaces” was scheduled for this room, but was canceled. But, no regrets. Tjeed seems like an interesting speaker (just look at that dreamy photo :) FrogDesign Tjeed works at frog design. Started as a typical physical design company […]

Andy Baio Trip back to 1996 (Mr T ate my balls website). Creator just thought it was funny at the time. Linked to yahoo, that at the time had a list of 300 “ate my balls” pages” New kind of ingenious stupidity – welcome to the meme. Not a huge leap to this! 18M Americans […]

Christopher Schmitt Wait I have his book! CSS cookbook Expectations limit design Browsers limit design (each has its own internal stylesheet) Then a great story about an interview with Apple and a “hard” question. It all boils down to designing the American flag with CSS (which was something he had, by chance, done previously). Semantic […]

Gene smith nForm (user expert consultant ) blogger author. Voodoo Donuts = donut porn When was metadata invented? As soon as or before the first data. Even culture that never developed written language still used matadata – Incas Railroads in 1900s drove advancements in metadata. Filing cabnets virtical filing and tabs really changes record keeping […]

Lynne d Johnson Introductions…. Lynne is the Lynne is the Senior Editor and Community Director for FastCompany.com. She has written for vibe and is always part of SXSW. She starts by noting that the keynote is at the end of the day where everyone is tired and saturated – “so I better be exciting!” People […]

James Keller & Sean Cowne A new approach to web design. It all starts with a quiz: Product demo – best UI? animaion + 100 words text animation + voice and 100 words (my guess) animation + voice … but they won’t tell us until end… Some Definitions IA (information architecture) – is the art […]

Marshall Kirkpatrick http://marshallk.com/ Recommendations: Blog search: Ask.com – uses bloglines to filter out spam. Sets up bookmarklet to blog search. News Search: topix.net, yahoo news, as well as dilicio.us popular items Web Results: live.com (search sucks, but does publish newly found pages) Twitter: Summize.com Big proponent to over subscribing to feeds. Argues that is better […]

Dave McFarland Introduction: Many websites (including macworld) Many Books (missing mauals) Teaches at PSU What is Javascript? Starts with what is Javascript? Interactivity! Shows great examples: Apple, twistori … JS is About: selecting page elements manipulating page elements Uses stripped table as an example. Shows some code, but quickly jumps to JQuery (the JS library) […]

This is a bit random, but I love it. I was searching for some information about Edward Tufte and ran across this discussion on his personal web site. Scroll way down to see the image. In addition the page title is “Ask E.T.” which made me chuckle. It’s been a long day…

This weekend was beautiful. The temperatures in the valley peaked Saturday close to 100. This is considered surprisingly hot for the Portland area. It is even more surprising when you consider that less then a moth ago it was still threatening to snow. The long winter and quick warm up has caused the rivers to […]