SXSW Future15 Convergence
March 14th, 2011
It was great to meet and/or hear talks by Richard Bullwinkle, David Maher Roberts, Jesse Streb, Anthea Foyer, Utku Can, Harry Mower, David Berkowitz, Alex Hachey and special thanks to Dan Shust for putting it all together.
Fitting everything into 10 or 15 minutes is challenging, but makes for a dense overview of new ideas. If anyone stopped by and has any thoughts to share please email or comment. It was difficult to find room for conversation during the session with so much going on.
…update…
Here are the slides from the talk.
technology | user experience
March 15th, 2011 at 10:21 am
I really enjoyed your talk, short but very insightful. Would love to connect further and talk tech tv, it’s a new field for me with my fun side project crowdtube.tv.
I’m curious if you know of any tricks/tips for developing for d-pad controllers. I’m debating on doing that or creating a mobile web based controller. Thoughts?
March 16th, 2011 at 1:05 am
Thanks very much!
D-pad is indeed tricky to design for and if you are used to designing for the web it takes a completely different logic. Hm, it might deserve some links and diagrams and a full blog post. I had never found much material on the web on it, but with Google now in the game I just found this TV design doc: http://code.google.com/tv/web/docs/design_for_tv.html
You can also check out how their version of YouTube leanback differs from the regular web version to see how a complex webby interface would have to simplify for up/down/left/right navigation. Moving through adjacent arrays is a common good approach…
http://www.youtube.com/t/leanback
As you might have guessed from the talk, I’d prefer a mobile controller from a usability perspective.
The challenge is, you have to be able to get the 2 screens to talk to each other – so it depends on your context.
March 16th, 2011 at 10:14 am
One of my favorite panels/sessions from SXSW, thank you! Also, will you be posting slides from your presentation?