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• Designing Tomorrow’s Digital/Physical Interfaces

  by David Merrill, Fabian Hemmert and Leah Buechley

  The Mobile Revolution has reduced the costs of components and production to the point that the Davids now build and ship their device ideas quicker than the Goliaths. Gadgets are getting faster and smaller and big companies are learning more than ever on the community at large to make them shine.

  But this shift has done little to move interface design forward. The prevailing school of thought constrains us to develop devices within the ‘brain+fingertips+glass=interaction’ metaphor, making little use of our perceptual and motor potential. There’s only so far we can go with multi-touch in bridging physical with digital.

  The biggest leaps in interface innovation have come from the speculative designers, who’ve taken tremendous risks to forge a new set of digital hand tools, building a new breed of devices that do not limit users to finger movements and visual/auditory feedback, but instead utilize our spatial and sensory abilities to escape the Glass Slab - especially in the area of play.

  • Innovation
  • User Interface Design

  At 11:00am to 12:00pm, Sunday 11th March

  In Salon FG, Hilton Austin Downtown

  Coverage audio clip

• eBay to VC: Lessons from the Trenches

  by Jeff Jordan and Jenna Wortham

  He’s done it all—and with class. Jeff Jordan redefined online commerce as the head of eBay Marketplaces, popularized digital payments by scaling PayPal and brought the restaurant industry into the Internet Age as the CEO of OpenTable. As a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, he’s now funding the next wave of online innovation. In this one-on-one conversation with the New York Times' Jenna Wortham, Jeff will share his insights into the digital consumer and what’s next for all of us on the information superhighway (we’re rooting for the ability to make reservations for dinner on the moon or bid on someone to do our daily—erm—okay, weekly gym workouts). Hailed as the ultimate team player, Jeff will also delve into what it takes to lead a company that has to scale exponentially. Join Jeff as he takes us into the future.

  • Commerce
  • consumer
  • eBay
  • Innovation

  At 12:30pm to 1:30pm, Sunday 11th March

  In Salon D, Hilton Austin Downtown

  Coverage audio clip