This schedule is subject to change. Some sessions might shift days. No listed sessions will be removed.
Monday, August 11
| Time | Event 1 |
|---|---|
| 5:00-7:30 pm | Registration |
| 6:00-7:30 pm | Welcome Reception |
Tuesday, August 12 Day One - The Fundamentals of User Experience
| Time | Event 1 |
|---|---|
| 8:00-9:00am | Registration and Light Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:10am | Introduction | Peter Merholz |
| 9:10-10:00am | Keynote Interview | Don Norman with Peter Merholz |
| 10:00-10:30am | Being a UX Team of One | Leah Buley, Adaptive Path |
| 10:30-11:00am | Break |
| 11:00-11:45am | The Story of the Ribbon | Jensen Harris, Microsoft |
| 11:45am-12:30pm | Making a Creative Space: Lessons from the Neo-Futurists | Sarah Nelson, Adaptive Path and Jay Torrence, Neo-Futurists |
| 12:30-2:00pm | Lunch |
| 2:00-5:00pm | Workshops | The workshops listed below run concurrently. You will choose one to attend. The earlier you register, the more likely you’ll get your top choice. We will provide a workshop-picker tool closer to the event. |
| Storytelling for User Experience Design | Led by Kevin Brooks, Motorola Labs | |
| Become a Sticky-Note Ninja | Led by Kate Rutter, Adaptive Path | |
| Good Design Faster | Led by Leah Buley and Brandon Schauer, Adaptive Path | |
| Quick and Easy Flash Prototyping | Led by Alexa Andrzejewski, Adaptive Path | |
| Design is Made of People | Led by Sarah B. Nelson and Julia Houck-Whitaker, Adaptive Path | |
| Unpacking Stories to Serve People Better | Led by Indi Young, author of Mental Models | |
| Drawing Ideas: Quick Sketching for Interaction Design | Led by Mark Baskinger, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University | |
| 5:00-6:00pm | Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind | Neo-Futurists |
| 6:00-7:30pm | Reception |
Wednesday, August 13 Day Two - Media and Service Design Back to top
| Time | Event 1 |
|---|---|
| 8:00-9:00 am | Registration and Light Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:15am | Introduction |
| 9:15-10:00am | Keynote | Scott Griffith, CEO of Zipcar |
| 10:00-10:30am | “We’ll Always Have Paris”: What Makes a Memorable Service Experience? | Jennifer Bove, HUGE and Ben Fullerton, IDEO |
| 10:30-11:00am | Break |
| 11:00-11:30am | TheDailyShow.com: Fake News, 24/7 | Audrey Chen, Comedy Central |
| 11:30-12:00pm | “Ben”: A Prototype for Democracy in the 21st Century | Dave Wolf, Cynergy |
| 12:00-12:30pm | TV with an API! Current at the Collision of TV and the Internet | Rod Naber and Dan Levine, Current TV |
| 12:30-2:00pm | Lunch |
| 2:00-5:00pm | Workshops | The workshops listed below run concurrently. You will choose one to attend. |
| The Neo-Futurists Short Short Story Workshop | Led by Jay Torrence and Greg Allen, Neo-Futurists | |
| Beyond Wireframes - Making Interactive Sketches | Led by Dan Harrelson, Adaptive Path | |
| Making Thinking Tangible | Led by Todd Wilkens, Adaptive Path | |
| Design Management for User Experience | Led by Margaret Stewart and Graham Jenkin, Google | |
| Live, Vast and Deep: Web-native Information Visualization | Led by Tom Carden and Michal Migurski, Stamen Design | |
| Designing Gestural Interfaces | Led by Dan Saffer, Adaptive Path | |
| Creating Service Envy | Jennifer Bove, HUGE and Ben Fullerton, IDEO | |
| 5:00-6:00pm | Building Brands That Build Community: LIVESTRONG and Blanton Museum of Art | Katherine Jones and Randall Macon, Milkshake Media |
| 6:30-9:30pm | Party at Adaptive Path HQ | featuring a talk by the authors of Subject to Change and a performance by Pork Chop Express. Food and drinks too. |
Thursday, August 14 Day Three - Play and Immersion Back to top
| Time | Event 1 |
|---|---|
| 8:00-9:00 am | Registration and Light Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:15am | Introduction |
| 9:15-10:00am | Keynote: A Game Designer’s Perspective on the Future of Happiness | Jane McGonigal, Game Designer and Future Forecaster |
| 10:00-10:30am | Your Phone is Your Controller | Jury Hahn, MegaPhone |
| 10:30-11:00am | Break |
| 11:00-11:45am | New Paradigms for Interaction in Physical Space | Jake Barton, Local Projects |
| 11:45am-12:30pm | From Kahlo to Contemporary: Designing Contexts for Connecting with Art at SFMOMA | SFMOMA, Interactive Educational Technologies Team |
| 12:30-1:30pm | Lunch |
| Afternoon | Exploratorium Field Trip | San Francisco’s Exploratorium is the leading hands-on science museum in the country, if not the world. We’ll get a behind-the-scenes access to the museum. And we’ll get to have fun! |
| 1:30-2:15pm | Travel to Exploratorium |
| 2:15-3:00pm | Instrumenting Chaos – Understanding the Visitor Experience in a Free-Choice Environment | Joshua Gutwill and Ken Finn, Exploratorium |
| 3:15-4:15pm | Designing Over Time: Evolving Exhibits at the Exploratorium | Ken Finn, Exploratorium |
| 4:15-5:15pm | Free time in the Exploratorium - play, relax, have fun! |
| 5:30-6:00pm | Travel back to The Palace Hotel |
| 6:00-7:30pm | Reception |
| 7:30-10:00pm | SFMOMA is open late on Thursdays. Let’s go (the Frida Kahlo exhibit is running)! |
Friday, August 15 Day Four - The Future of User Experience Back to top
| Time | Event 1 |
|---|---|
| 8:00-9:00 am | Registration and Light Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:15am | Introduction |
| 9:15-10:00am | Keynote: Small Teams, Complex Pipelines: Writing Software for Making Movies at Pixar | Michael B. Johnson, Pixar |
| 10:00-10:30am | Lessons from Oz: Designing for the Mobile Experience | Rachel Hinman, Adaptive Path |
| 10:30-11:00am | Break |
| 11:00-11:20am | Designing Our Way Through Data | Jeffrey Veen, designer, author and entrepreneur and Michal Migurski, Stamen Design |
| 11:20-11:45am | Greebles, Nurnies, Tiles and Flair: Visualization By Analogy | Michal Migurski, Stamen Design |
| 11:45-12:15pm | The Challenge of Emotional Innovation | August de los Reyes and Dennis Wixon, Microsoft Surface |
| 12:15-1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:15pm | The Future of the Web Browser | Jesse James Garrett, Adaptive Path |
| 2:15-2:45pm | Tap Is The New Click | Dan Saffer, Adaptive Path |
| 2:45-3:15pm | Designing Natural Interfaces: Adventures in Touchscreen, Multi-touch, and Multi-user Experiences | Nathan Moody and Darren David, Stimulant |
| 3:15-3:45pm | Break |
| 3:45-4:15pm | Interaction Design and Physical Computing | Mike Kuniavksy, ThingM |
| 4:15-4:45pm | Human-Robot Interaction | Aaron Powers, iRobot |
| 4:45-5:15pm | Interaction Techniques Using the Wii Remote (and other HCI projects) | Johnny C. Lee, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 5:15-6:00pm | Endnote | Bruce Sterling, author, design essayist and Net critic |