design

Interactive Reflections

During the week leading up to SXSW Interactive, I started to panic. How was I supposed to handle something most people described as overwhelming? I had never really liked crowds, I was unsure of my abilities to cover an event like Interactive, and with so many options, I had no idea how I was going to choose what to […]

Well Designed: Creating Empathy-Driven Products

“Where do great products come from?” This was one of the first questions Jon Kolko, the Founder and Director of the Austin Center for Design and Vice President of Consumer Design at Blackboard, asked the audience at his Friday-morning SXSW Interactive panel, Well-Designed: Creating Empathy Driven Products. “Is it vision?  Process?  Or just hard work?” He continued […]

cleanweb drawing

On Saturday at SXSW Interactive, David Merkoski spoke on the death of Cleantech and how a different mindset is needed to make a difference in the green movement: Cleanweb.

Future 15 - Content + Distribution (2)

View as slideshow Entertain Latinos Online – Beatriz Acevedo MiTu Network@MiTuNetwork @MiTuNetwork started w/ 20 channels, now 450. Started w/ 100k subs, now 3.2M, 250k monthly views now 47M #mitu #youtube #sxswi #sxsw #latism Sat, Mar 09 2013 15:51:26 ReplyRetweetFavorite MiTu is a channel network compromised of Latino creators. They have formed a community to […]

poynter tablet panel

Let’s talk about change. That’s exactly what Dr. Mario Garcia says we absolutely must do at SXSW Interactive: talk about how we in the media industries adapt to change. Founder and CEO of Garcia Media, Garcia joined the Poynter Institute’s Sara Quinn and Smart Media Creative’s Dave Stanton Friday on a panel exploring recent studies […]