Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2011 about Interaction Design and User Experience on Monday 14th March

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• Game On: 7 Design Patterns For User Engagement

  by Nadya Direkova

  How do you drive up user engagement? What game-like design patterns get your users to complete the sign-up, bring friends and come back? This session will expose the design patterns of engagement and incentives, including relevant metrics. Led by Nadya Direkova, Sr. Designer at Google and game designer, it will teach useful techniques that can drive up - and keep - your user base. You will leave with an arsenal of 7 design patterns to: design effective sign-up sessions and tutorials, promote virality, invite return visits, and apply game mechanics beyond points and bagdes. About the speaker: Nadya Direkova is Google’s local search designer and a game mechanics consultant - helping millions of users find knowledge and fun. She comes from the world of game design, having created fun games for Leapfrog and Backbone. She’s taught design at M.I.T. and spoken at IXDA’09 and SXSW’10.

  LEVEL: Intermediate

  • Game Design
  • Games
  • Interaction Design
  • User Experience

  At 12:30pm to 1:30pm, Monday 14th March

  In Ballroom C, Austin Convention Center

• Interactive Patterns in the Mobile Space

  by Barbara Ballard

  This panel will discuss how companies can create best mobile mobile user interfaces, avoiding many of the pitfalls of poor design. Mobile user interfaces are not just squished down to fit the small screen, but require an understanding and application of technologies, users, and contexts of use to create the best possible interaction. Core principles for designing mobile interfaces will be discussed, as well as design patterns for use in mobile web sites and applications.

  LEVEL: Intermediate

  • Interaction Design
  • Mobile
  • User Experience
  • User Interface

  At 5:00pm to 5:15pm, Monday 14th March

  In Ballroom E, Austin Convention Center

• Our Devices: How Smart is too Smart?

  by Genevieve Bell

  We won't quote Moore's Law to you, but we can all agree that technology is evolving at a rapid clip, maybe doubling its efficiency something like every two years (okay we couldn't resist). As these newly-evolved smart devices hit the market, consumers are changing with them. We become more social, more chatty, more plugged in as a result. We have a wealth of information at our fingertips and we're able to access it faster with smaller and smaller devices. How is all of this information, accessibility and speed changing us? Are consumers doubling our intelligence every two years?

  As an Intel Fellow and Director of Interaction & Experience Research for Intel Corporation, Genevieve Bell currently leads an R&D team of social scientists, interaction designers, human factors engineers, and a range of technology researchers to create the next generation of compelling user experiences across a range of internet-connected devices, platforms, and services. She will drive user-centered experience and design across the computing continuum.

  LEVEL: Intermediate

  • Interaction Design
  • User Experience

  At 5:00pm to 6:00pm, Monday 14th March

  In Salon H, Hilton Austin Downtown