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• AT&T Mobile App Hackathon

  Come join us at a special AT&T Mobile App Hackathon that will be focused on UI/UX designers and the like. We’ve lined up a special celebrity guest, Chicago Bears 7-time Pro-Bowl LB Lance Briggs, a self-admitted comic book fanatic. He’s looking for the best designers and devs to build him a mobile app. And where better to find the best than SXSW? Especially when the Official SXSW Hackathon is located smack in the center of the action at the Austin Convention Center for your convenience.

  Competitors will be given 24 short hours to blow Lance’s mind by taking the concept and transforming it into an awe inspiring design, which will be reviewed by Lance himself. Finally, to really make this crazy, we’ve got over $46k in cash and prizes.
  In short, this highly intense event will celebrate the unique contribution of designers and provide you with the opportunity to not only showcase your skills, but design an app for an NFL great with millions of fans and millions of potential users.

  Registration: http://mobileappsxsw.eventbrite....

  Event Schedule:

  6PM - Friday Evening - Kick off event with Happy Hour where our special guest partners will pitch the app concept you will be designing.

  10AM - Saturday Morning - AT&T Mobile App Hackathon. The fun continues with an all day hackathon. Work with the teams that you formed on Friday night to produce the app spec’d out the night before. Senseis will be available throughout the entire event to help you code up your solution. App submissions will be accepted throughout the day with a deadline of 7:30PM.

  7:30PM - Saturday Evening. Promptly at 7:30PM, teams will begin pitching their ventures. Pitches are limited to three (3) minutes per team.

  • Apps
  • Design
  • Hacking
  • Mobile

  At 10:00am to 10:00pm, Saturday 10th March

  In Room 2, Austin Convention Center

• HTML5 APIs Will Change the Web: And Your Designs

  by Jen Simmons

  HTML5. It's more than paving the cowpaths. It's more than markup. There's a lot of stuff in the spec about databases and communication protocols and blahdiblah backend juju. Some of that stuff is pretty radical. And it will change how you design websites. Why? Because for the last twenty years, web designers have been creating inside of a certain set of constraints. We've been limited in what's possible by the technology that runs the web. We became so used to those limits, we stopped thinking about them. They became invisible. They Just Are. Of course the web works this certain way. Of course a user clicks and waits, the page loads, like this… but guess what? That's not what the web will look like in the future. The constrains have changed. Come hear a non-nerd explanation of the new possibilities created by HTML5’s APIs. Don't just wait around to see how other people implement these technologies. Learn about HTML APIs yourself, so you can design for and create the web of the future.

  • Design
  • Future
  • HTML5
  • Mobile
  • Mobile Web

  At 11:00am to 12:00pm, Saturday 10th March

  In Ballroom A, Austin Convention Center

  Coverage audio clip slide deck