Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2008 schedule

Wednesday 23rd April 2008

• Polite, Pertinent, and... Pretty: Designing for the New-wave of Personal Informatics

  by Tom Coates and Matt Jones

  There’s an explosion in “personal informatics:” services that surface information about you and your network to your advantage. Matt Jones and Tom Coates will examine how great UX design can maximize the benefits to all.

  The speakers will also draw on many other applications, devices, and services from the cutting edge of personal informatics, to identify patterns and principles that work for power-users and newbies alike.

  Privacy is often, quite rightly, the first concern of users, designers, and developers—but Jones will argue that some other Ps: Pertinence, Politeness and, yes… Prettiness, are equally important for the adoption and success of such services.

  The multidisciplinary nature of creating great user experiences is taken to extremes in the nascent area of personal informatics and they'll touch on information visualization, user-centered service-design, copywriting, geo-location, wayfinding, design for mobile, ubiquitous computing, video-games, “spimes,” industrial design, and even urban planning before we’re done.

  • Design
  • Life Instrumentation
  • Personal Informatics
  • Privacy
  • Quantified Self

  At 9:40am to 10:30am, Wednesday 23rd April

  Coverage slide deck write-up write-up

• Opening Welcome

  by Jennifer Pahlka and brady forrest

  At 4:00pm to 4:10pm, Wednesday 23rd April

Thursday 24th April 2008

• Designing for a Web of Data

  by Tom Coates

  Design patterns for brochureware and editorial sites are well-established. In fact, they’re so simple and formulaic that even waterfall development processes can churn them out. A producer has an idea, a designer mocks it up in Photoshop, and then client-side types and engineers go all agile on its ass.

  But what happens when you’re pushing into web apps or social media? What happens when an absence of hierarchy makes left-hand navigation redundant? What do you do when design practice blurs into URLs and data structures, and where your service breaks the frame of the browser and start appearing in hardware, in desktop applications, or on other people’s sites?

  In this session, Tom Coates will talk about new literacies that designers need to build things that are native to a web of data, the blurring and interplay between designers and developers, and what it means to rapidly iterate in small multidisciplinary teams to find the heart and soul of a new concept.

  • Design
  • Geolocation
  • Internet of Things
  • navigation
  • Web of Data

  At 11:00am to 11:40am, Thursday 24th April

Unscheduled

• Here Comes Everybody

  by Clay Shirky

  • Wisdom of Crowds
  Coverage video