What’s next in dating and health care smartphone apps, and how does one design for certain demographics or disabilities? Communication design majors and recent graduates at Texas State University took on this unique challenge in their project, HEXDesign, which will be presented during the TXST Innovation Lab at SXSW. HEXDesign is a collective of eight […]
Vanessa Janowski is the co-founder of Vari Solutions, a company that assists growing technology businesses to target areas for improvement, helps them with better understanding their users, and how to develop data solutions to build their company. Vanessa will be joined by Ivy Reyes of Shutterstock, Maisy Samuelson of Pinterest, and Cinna Wu of Facebook […]
Authors: Alexandra White & Sean Smith 47.3 Million U.S. Adults Have Access to a Smart Speaker, Report Says The number of smart speaker users has grown to 20% of the U.S. adult population in just two years. Smart speaker use has grown exponentially faster than its digital counterparts, like television use and even internet use. Amazon […]
Liz is Co-CEO and Head of Design at Webjunto, a user-experience-focused design and development company based in Philadelphia. Liz has a passion for both research and design. Over the past 15 years, she has worked on a wide range of projects including research on motivation theory, cognitive learning theory, and user experience. After […]
Dr. Dawna Ballard has spent the past twenty years researching the relationship between time and work. She is here to help you figure out how this dynamic works and how it can applied to your life.
Alvand “Alvin” Salehi is a Senior Technology Advisor at the White House and the co-founder of Code.gov, the nation’s primary platform for sharing and improving government software. He also serves as a research affiliate at Harvard Law School, where he explores the impact of open source software on economic efficiency, code security, and tech innovation […]
On Feb. 26-28, Best Practice Media presented the Social Media Week Austin (#SMWATX) conference with innovative professionals in digital careers. This was the second year Austin has held one of the many Social Media Week conferences, which are also held in New York, Los Angeles, London, and Chicago, with the theme of celebrating human connectivity […]