Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2012 about Apps with slides

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Saturday 10th March 2012

• Responsive Content: Build a Website that Kicks App

  by Hans Sprecher

  Forget apps, .mobi sites, and smoke signals. Here’s a little secret: you can make one website to cater to different devices and contexts. Designing responsive sites is gaining mainstream acceptance—but how do these sites effect your content strategy? Like the design, content is flexible—expanding based on screen resolution and medium to match the user's context. We need techniques to scale content as beautifully and responsively as our designs.

  Responsive content can be used for both good and evil (or at least pleasant and painful user experiences). We'll examine when content should be responsive and when it shouldn't be.

  Finally, the tech details: to make content respond, draw on the HTML5 spec, web standards, and semantic markup to systematically flag content. We can also use CSS, JS, and server-side processing to add or remove content from different contexts to create fast-loading sites.

  • Apps
  • Content
  • Devices
  • HTML5
  • Responsive Design

  At 5:15pm to 5:30pm, Saturday 10th March

  In Texas Ballroom 4-7, Hyatt Regency Austin

  Coverage slide deck

Sunday 11th March 2012

• Hacking the Citizen Experience

  by Aaron Ogle and Cyd Harrell

  Citizens interact with their governments (local or national) every day, and they increasingly do this via websites, phone apps, or other types of technology. Many of these interfaces are uninformed by the design and experience practices that have become a standard part of commercial product and service development. In fact, few government agencies have the budget in these times to hire a staff of web and experience practitioners. Over the last several years, a vibrant culture of hackathons has grown up, with developers spending weekends building apps based on government data. Designers and researchers, however, haven't yet begun to participate in numbers.

  This talk will discuss the challenges of public/citizen experiences and the great potential to improve Americans' lives through informal design and prototyping collaborations. We'll explain how designers and developers can build communities of public service around our talents and industries. We'll inspire the audience to use their powers for good and contribute to the growing movement known as Government 2.0

  • Apps
  • Citizen Journalism
  • Government
  • Hacking

  At 5:00pm to 6:00pm, Sunday 11th March

  In Salon A, AT&T Conference Center

  Coverage audio clip slide deck