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11:00am CDT

Designing for Trust JW Marriott Salon DMichael Boeke Revamping Photoshop for Screen Design JW Marriott Salon EZorana Gee Psychological Architectures for Persuasive Tech JW Marriott Salon FBrian Cugelman PhD

12:30pm CDT

CSS as a Service: Maintaining Style JW Marriott Salon BShay Howe Customizable Interactive SVG Graphics for the Web JW Marriott Salon DDevina Coutinho • Priyanka Herur Moving from Graphic Design to 3D Object Design JW Marriott Salon EPaul Trani The Myth of Reducing Friction in Your Product JW Marriott Salon ASushmita Subramanian

2:00pm CDT

Failure as a Creative Catalyst JW Marriott Salon EErik Natzke

3:30pm CDT

How Beautiful Tools Make Sense of Complex Data ACL Live at the Moody Theater ACL LiveFrancois Xavier Fringant • Gloria Lau • Naomi Robbins • Kevin Safford How to Be a More Inefficient Designer JW Marriott Salon EMarke Johnson • Nathan Johnson No, I will (Probably) Not Redesign Your Website JW Marriott Salon DJon Setzen Sails.js: Rags to...Open Source JW Marriott Salon BMike McNeil UX and The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle JW Marriott Salon AJeff Alpen • Laura Blanchard Modern Web Accessibility Workshop JW Marriott Salon HPatrick Fox

5:00pm CDT

How Kids Changed the Way We Design for Adults JW Marriott Salon DKerry Bodine • Lisa Lindström Mentor Session: Nicholas Kim Courtyard Marriott Brazos INicholas Kim Mentor Session: Rachel Reinitz Courtyard Marriott Brazos IIRachel Reinitz Understanding Ember.js JW Marriott Salon BLuke Melia Well-Designed: Creating Empathy-Driven Products JW Marriott Salon AJon Kolko

5:30pm CDT

Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide ACC Ballroom GNate Cooper

9:30am CDT

Beyond Pixels: User Experience Is Your Product JW Marriott Salon BRyan Block • Kevin Gibbon Designers and Content Creators: Make Love Not War JW Marriott Salon CChristine Cawthorne • Jon Kohrs Netflix Shares a Decade of A/B Test Learning JW Marriott Salon DTodd Yellin OAuth2: The Swiss-Army Framework JW Marriott Salon ABrent Shaffer The Evolution of the Web JW Marriott Salon ECJ Gammon Build Right: Frontend Testing JW Marriott Room 303-304Ryan Cromwell • Rob Tarr Building Location-Aware Apps Using Open Source JW Marriott Salon FChuck Greb • Matthew Smollinger Making the Future: 3D Printing Workshop JW Marriott Room 301-302Wendy W Fok • Evelyn Tilney Information Architecture Essentials JW Marriott Room 307Andrew Hinton • Dan Klyn

11:00am CDT

The Power of Disposable Design ACC Ballroom CPaul Anastasopoulos Engineering the Future of Awesome on Any Device JW Marriott Salon BAlex Balazs • Aliza Carpio • Sameera Rao • Dan Shaw Going from Design to Code without Going insane JW Marriott Salon ESarah Hunt • Ryan Stewart Rapid Iteration On Mobile JW Marriott Salon AMariya Yao Screw Fuck No, Say Shit Yeah! JW Marriott Salon DMichael Nieling UX Prototyping: New Mediums For Designers JW Marriott Salon CJohn Goff

11:15am CDT

I Made 180 Websites in 180 Days ACC Ballroom CJennifer Dewalt

11:30am CDT

This Is Your Brain On Visual Data ACC Ballroom CSasha Pasulka

11:45am CDT

Think Outside the Font: How Typefaces Influence ACC Ballroom CSarah Hyndman

12:00pm CDT

Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions ACC Ballroom GBrian Wansink

12:30pm CDT

A Frank Lloyd Wright Approach To Digital Design ACC Ballroom CKent Eisenhuth Designing for the Mind JW Marriott Salon BRoger Dooley • Nir Eyal • Nathalie Nahai Is Your Responsive Design Responsive Enough? JW Marriott Salon CDane Downer • James Zetlen Mentor Session: Shay Howe Courtyard Marriott Brazos IIIShay Howe Start with the Things, Not the Internet JW Marriott Salon DRoss Atkin Story Structure Secrets JW Marriott Salon EChristine Steele Tap, Swipe, Book: Designing for Mobile JW Marriott Salon ASam Shank

12:45pm CDT

How Software Design Can Reduce Energy Consumption ACC Ballroom CDeena Rosen

1:00pm CDT

The Medium Is the Deliverable ACC Ballroom CKevin Suttle

1:15pm CDT

Design for Fingers, Thumbs and People ACC Ballroom CSteven Hoober

2:00pm CDT

Make Social Media POP! with Video JW Marriott Salon EDave Werner

3:30pm CDT

Big Picture Testing: Beyond The One-Off Result JW Marriott Salon BToby Fallsgraff • Sarah Newhall • Kyle Rush Creating Connections Through Serendipitous Design JW Marriott Salon CJohn Kestner • Reed Martin Design Sprints at Google: UX Methods and Mindset JW Marriott Salon DNadya Direkova • Marta Rey-Babarro Mentor Session: Jason Bender Courtyard Marriott Brazos IJason Bender Promoting Your Creative Work on the Web JW Marriott Salon ERoxanne Schwartz Using Touch in Creative Design of an Experience JW Marriott Salon ADavid Birnbaum UX and Content Strategy Mindshare Meet Up JW Marriott Room 502-503Paige Maguire Designing UI in Keynote for Web and Mobile Apps JW Marriott Salon HJoel Beukelman • Ted Boda The More You Node JW Marriott Room 303-304Chase Moody • Ashley Park

5:00pm CDT

Consumer Data: The Good, the Bad, the Not-So-Ugly JW Marriott Salon DMargret Schmidt Designing for Professional Users: A New UX Playbook JW Marriott Salon CAlan Baumgarten • Ben Judy From Digital Sharecropping to Data Emancipation JW Marriott Salon BGene Becker • Laurie Frick • Julia Lane • Mike Liebhold Green Screen UX: Designing For Context JW Marriott Salon AJustin Smith Mentor Session: Andrew Eisenberg Courtyard Marriott Brazos IAndrew Eisenberg Mentor Session: April Chang Courtyard Marriott Brazos IApril Chang Mentor Session: Jeff Zwerner Courtyard Marriott Brazos IIJeff Zwerner Mentor Session: Nathan Hanners Courtyard Marriott Brazos IIINathan Hanners

9:30am CDT

Five Tips to Be a Design’s Surrogate, Not Parent JW Marriott Salon BBen Jordan Inclusive UX in a Rapid Development World JW Marriott Salon DSusann Keohane • Mary Jo Mueller See What I Mean:The Language of the Body JW Marriott Salon ABrad Nunnally Style Frameworks: Creating Collaborative Standards JW Marriott Salon CMarti Gold

11:00am CDT

Beyond The Shelf: Power of Intelligent Packaging JW Marriott Salon ADan Shust Designing the UI for the Internet of Things JW Marriott Salon BTim Lynch Humanizing Data: Bridging UX Research and Analytics JW Marriott Salon CNellwyn Thomas • Alex Wright Mentor Session: John Goff Courtyard Marriott Brazos IIIJohn Goff Mentor Session: Rob Corradi Courtyard Marriott Brazos IIIRob Corradi The Principles of UX Choreography JW Marriott Salon DGlen Keane • Rebecca Ussai Building Responsive Websites Without Code JW Marriott Room 303-304Bryant Chou • Mat Vogels Creative Listening Workshop JW Marriott Room 301-302Nili Metuki • Anna Silverstein

12:30pm CDT

Behind the Wireframe: UX Leadership Secrets JW Marriott Salon BAlissa Briggs • Raman Hansi • Steven Hillenius • PJ McCormick DesignOps Skunkworks: Shoes for the Cobbler’s Kids JW Marriott Salon ARuss Unger Discuss Design Without Losing Your Mind JW Marriott Salon CAdam Connor Magical UX and the Internet of Things JW Marriott Salon DJosh Clark Mentor Session: Andre Briggs Courtyard Marriott Brazos IAndre Briggs Mentor Session: Navin Prasad Courtyard Marriott Brazos IINavin Prasad UX and Data Meet Up JW Marriott Room 509Beverly May

3:30pm CDT

At a Glance: How Does Type Impact Your Daily Life? JW Marriott Salon DNadine Chahine • Bryan Reimer Mentor Session: Jared Schwartz Courtyard Marriott Brazos IIIJared Schwartz Need for Speed: Optimizing the User Experience JW Marriott Salon AJames Christie Socks, WTF? Or, Taking Your Digital Brand Physical JW Marriott Salon BJeff Zwerner Collaborative Sketching: Jumpstart Your Design! JW Marriott Room 301-302Robert Stribley Inclusive AppRoom: Viewing Apps Through Disability JW Marriott Room 310-311Cristen Carson Reat • Hannah Rosenthal

5:00pm CDT

Content First: Practical Joke or Ideal Jumpstart? JW Marriott Salon BMartijn van der Heijden Design in Tech Report ACC Exhibit Hall 5John Maeda Interconnected: The Future of the Experience Web JW Marriott Salon ADries Buytaert Letting Go: Building Tech for People JW Marriott Salon DGadi Amit • James Park Little Kids Are Not Stupid: Give Them Content! JW Marriott Salon CJennifer Keys Adair Meet Up: Pinterest Engineering AMA JW Marriott Room 502-503Yash Nelapati Mentor Session: Brian Wallace Courtyard Marriott Brazos IIIBrian Wallace Mentor Session: Lori DeBortoli Courtyard Marriott Brazos IIILori DeBortoli

9:30am CDT

Death to Passwords: Mobile Security Done Right JW Marriott Salon ATim Messerschmidt Leading the Startup UX from 0 to 100 Days JW Marriott Salon CUday Gajendar Mobile: How to Build Beyond the Phone JW Marriott Salon BKyle Ellicott • Dash Gopinath • Stephane Marceau • Sean O\'Leary • Redg Snodgrass • Grant Wernick Web vs Mobile: The Continuous Delivery Difference JW Marriott Salon DPrathap Dendi • Kevin Rohling Sketchnoting 101 JW Marriott Room 310-311Kate Hayward Testing JavaScript Applications JW Marriott Salon HDaniel Johnson Intro to Ruby on Rails JW Marriott Room 307Brian Fountain • Alex Hint • Oleksandr Hintsyak

11:00am CDT

How Potato Salad Killed/Saved Crowdfunding ACC Next StageZack Brown • Allyson Burns • Ryan Grepper • Gary Wohlfeill Data Design: Where Math and Art Collide JW Marriott Salon ATrina Chiasson Scala and Reactive Meet Up JW Marriott Room 502-503Robert Preissl Secrets to Powerful APIs JW Marriott Salon BJim Heising • Neil Mansilla • Erik Michaels-Ober • Wynn Netherland The Clean Up Crew: Maintaining the Monolith JW Marriott Salon CEdmund Salvacion • Tom Stuart Think Like an Animator: Motion on Android JW Marriott Salon DKevin Grant • Zack Sultan

12:30pm CDT

HTML5: Tooling and Techniques Meet Up JW Marriott Room 502-503Mattie Langenberg Innovating Development of Cloud, Mobile and Social Radisson Town Lake Riverside BallroomMoe Abdula • Nathan Vega Mentor Session: Simon Erich Courtyard Marriott Brazos ISimon Erich The Mobile UX Revolution - Magnificent or Meh JW Marriott Salon BEamonn Carey • Marie Glad • Gabe Karp • Oisin Lunny The Rise of the Creative Economy JW Marriott Salon DScott Belsky • Justin Gignac • Emily Heyward • Ryan Merkley The Science of Happy Design JW Marriott Salon APamela Pavliscak What Snow White Can Tell You About Your Customers JW Marriott Salon CJoe Zadeh

3:30pm CDT

The Best Interface Is No Interface ACC Ballroom GGolden Krishna A/B Testing at Scale: Minimizing UI Complexity JW Marriott Salon AChris Saint-Amant Developer Dilemma: DIY Storage or Surrender Data? JW Marriott Salon CBrian Taptich Mentor Session: Rob Edgell Courtyard Marriott Brazos IIRob Edgell Spatially Literate Design: Space, Place, and UX JW Marriott Salon BJohn Jones • Jennifer Kolstad • Nathan Moody • Mark Wilson Why Is Spec Creative so Wrong, But Feels so Right? JW Marriott Salon DMichael Griffith Pragmatic Security and Rugged DevOps Workshop JW Marriott Salon GMatt Johansen • James Wickett

5:00pm CDT

Cognitive Rehab: Designing Past Self-Delusion JW Marriott Salon ADavid McRaney • John Romano Don't Press That! Preventing the Next Black Hole JW Marriott Salon CDarin Gillis • Jenica Welch Dramatic Readings by Programmers of Bug Reports JW Marriott Salon DSam Richard • Christopher Schmitt Mentor Session: Tatiana Chapira Courtyard Marriott Brazos IITatiana Chapira Tools of an Industrial Craftsman JW Marriott Salon BAndrew Crow • Greg Petroff • Kendra Shimmell What Will You Build with Watson on Bluemix? Radisson Town Lake Riverside BallroomSwami Chandrasekaran

9:30am CDT

Innovation Principles and Practices JW Marriott Salon CDan Ward Learn to Embrace Your Immutable Servers JW Marriott Salon ANikhil Vaze Lessons Learned Building Web Apps With Go JW Marriott Salon BChris Gansen $1 Prototype: Modern Approach to Mobile UX Design JW Marriott Salon FGreg Nudelman Large Drupal Projects JW Marriott Room 303-304Robert Ristroph • Jenn Sramek Learn To Program: Your First Lines of Code JW Marriott Salon GMark Lassoff ScaaS & Other Lies: Hacking Big Data on the Web JW Marriott Room 306Rion Dooley • John Fonner What's Before Mobile First? JW Marriott Salon HKen Tabor

11:00am CDT

Artience: Art and Science in the World of Design JW Marriott Salon BAnn-Caryn Cleveland • Soleio Cuervo • Scott Klemmer • Steve Vassallo Mentor Session: Pamela Pavliscak Courtyard Marriott Brazos IIPamela Pavliscak New Users Matter Too! Designing Better Onboarding JW Marriott Salon DKrystal Higgins Opening The Door To Open Compute JW Marriott Salon ARon Williams The Remaking of Airbnb and Eventbrite JW Marriott Salon CKatie Dill • Daniel Silverstein

12:30pm CDT

Rock That Font Meet Up JW Marriott Room 501Shawn O\'Keefe Beacon Technology & the Rise of Hyper Localization ACC Ballroom GAlexandre Ackermans • Jeff Sinclair Software Innovation Against the Odds JW Marriott Salon BBarbara Barry • Joan DiMicco • Brian Kane • Jesse Kriss

3:30pm CDT

'BYOC' With A Pocket Full Of WebSockets JW Marriott Salon HRobert Tuttle Decoding Design Feedback & Avoiding UX Quagmires JW Marriott Room 301-302Doug Hopkins Rapid On-Boarding: Building Password-less Apps JW Marriott Room 306Derek Labian • Tom Langridge Shredding Wires With Rapid UX Prototyping JW Marriott Room 307Kyle Outlaw Story Mapping Your Product JW Marriott Room 310-311Jeff Patton UI Patterns: Then and Now JW Marriott Salon GSteve Mackley