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SXSW Redux
This document summarizes key points from the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference. It discusses strategies for navigating the large number of sessions, including relying on research, aiming for early sessions, and avoiding ones that did not match their descriptions. It highlights some favorite sessions on indigenous tweets, content versioning and transparency, and mining data for stories. The document also provides an overview of features for designing content for Google Glass, including timeline cards, card options, subscriptions, and guidelines such as keeping it simple and avoiding unexpected notifications. It concludes by stating "Everything Is ImportantNOT" and thanking the audience.
SXSW Redux
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- 3. Success at SXSWmeant … • Navigating overwhelming choice • Relying on rigorous research • Aiming for early arrivals • Absconding from sessions which weren’t as advertised • Remembering that famous does not equal fascinating
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- 6. Content Versioning &Transparency
- 7. Mining Data forStories
- 8. Designing for GoogleGlass
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- 12. Characteristics Timeline Cards: Each itemis a "timeline card" – photo, text, rich HTML, etc They can be bundled with pagination Or multiple cards bundled together with one bundle ID Card Options: System options: Reply, Read Aloud, Share Custom options: Love Share Entities: Added to share menu for anything created on Glass Subscriptions: Get notified by JSON pings if a user hits card option or shares
- 13. Guidelines 1. Design forGlass You wouldn't want to read full article on Glass 2. Don't Get in the Way Don't use modal dialogues, decay gracefully 3. Keep It Timely Keep data fresh data, yes But also stay linear - avoid complex hierarchies 4. Avoid the Unexpected Be transparent - Don't send unexpected messaging, which users didn’t sign up for
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- 18. Also … Stephen Wolfram NickCave The Oatmeal Grumpy Cat Elon Musk Al Gore BBQ, Brisket & Beer and much, much more
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Editor's Notes
- #6 Indigenous Tweets founded by Kevin Patrick Scannell, Professor,Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,Saint Louis University. Follows people tweeting in endangered languages, sometimes as few as oneExplained neither Google nor Facebook allowing new languages, translations of their platforms to be added. He’s leading crowd-sourced, unofficial translations of these endangered languages, which can be implemented via Greasemonkey scripts. Similarly, Kara Andrade works to develop localized content management systems, which allow Guatemalans to create and disseminate content in their own language.
- #7 New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan and Eric Price, an MIT grad student hosted a discussion on "Version-Controlling the News."
- #8 The Wall Street Journal’s Kevin Helliker, James Grimaldi
- #10 Not like this
- #11 Building New Experiences with Google Glass– Timothy Jordan, Sr Developer Advocate, Google
- #12 Timothy Jordan's presentation, Building New Experiences with Google Glass
- #16 One presentation spent half an hour talking through the design phases (Discovery, Definition, Design, Development)
- #18 Scent of Information, Information Clustering, Home Page Is Not Important, Removing Paths Not Taken, Progressive Display, Tyranny of Consistency, Know Your Audience