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• Gabe Zichermann Book Signing

  Gabe Zichermann signs his book ‘Gamification by Design’ at the SXSW bookstore.

  • Book Signing
  • Design
  • Gamification

  At 10:45am to 11:00am, Sunday 11th March

  In Austin Convention Center

• Tracy Fullerton Book Signing

  Tracy Fullerton signs her book ‘Game Design Workshop’ at the SXSW bookstore.

  • Book Signing
  • Design
  • Game

  At 11:00am to 11:15am, Sunday 11th March

  In Austin Convention Center

• Design. Build. Transform.

  by Emily Pilloton

  Emily Pilloton is a designer and builder, disguised as a high school teacher. In this session, she will tell the story of Studio H, a high school design/build curriculum based in Bertie County, North Carolina, the poorest, most sparsely populated and racially divided county in the state. In one year, her students design and construct a full-scale piece of architecture for their hometown (last year, a 2000-square foot farmers market, along with 3 public chicken coops). This session will make the case for bringing back new, design-infused models of vocational learning as a means to engage students in hand-to-mind creativity, and real-world progress in their own backyards.

  • Architecture
  • Buildings
  • Design
  • Teaching

  At 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Sunday 11th March

  In Ballroom EF, Austin Convention Center

  Coverage audio clip sketch note

• White Space: Shaping Nothing for Clean Design

  by David Kadavy

  There is little compliment for a design greater than saying that it "looks clean." But clean design is much more than just a look. To make a clean design, you have to know how to communicate clearly by using white space wisely. In this solo presentation, David Kadavy, author of the #18 Amazon best-seller "Design for Hackers: Reverse-Engineering Beauty," breaks down the invisible forces that shape white space and make a design look "clean." Using fascinating examples that have explained mysteries such as "Why You Hate Comic Sans," Mr. Kadavy illuminates how geometry, typography, and the grid all work together to shape white space, communicate clearly, and create clean design.

  • Design

  At 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Sunday 11th March

  In Ballroom BC, Austin Convention Center

• David Kadavy Book Signing

  David Kadavy signs his book ‘Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty’ at the SXSW bookstore.

  • Book Signing
  • Design
  • Hackers

  At 4:45pm to 5:00pm, Sunday 11th March

  In Ballroom G Foyer, Austin Convention Center

• Emily Pilloton Book Signing

  Emily Pilloton signs her book ‘Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People’ at the SXSW bookstore.

  • Book Signing
  • Design
  • products

  At 4:45pm to 5:00pm, Sunday 11th March

  In Ballroom G Foyer, Austin Convention Center

• A Brief History of the Complete Redesign of Google

  by Michael Leggett, Nicholas Jitkoff, Evelyn Kim, Jon Wiley and Chris Wiggins

  In the summer of 2011, Google completely redesigned nearly all of its applications to be more focused, elastic, and effortless. For the first time in Google’s history, hundreds of millions of users could use a suite of products – from Search and Maps to Gmail, Docs, and Calendar – with a unified, modern look and feel. Join the designers who led the effort for war stories and lessons learned in bringing beauty to Google’s flagship products.

  • Design
  • Google

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

  In Ballroom BC, Austin Convention Center

  Coverage audio clip