“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 […]
For the first time since the project was created, SXTXState participants had the opportunity to sit down with a few members of the SXSW Interactive team. Director Hugh Forrest, Senior Festival Programmer Sarah Garcia and Festival Coordinator Andrew McNeill provided insight into this year’s festival, and offered advice for event newcomers and veterans alike. According […]
The words that come to mind a week after SXSWi: insight opportunity exhaustion After preparing for half of the semester, I can say it was worth it. This massive event really takes prepping if you want to really make the best of your days. Insight is probably the thing I’m most grateful for. I was […]
We’re pretty exhausted so I think we’re happy to go home tonight. But, it is bittersweet because SXSW was filled with new experiences every day. (And as we learned in one panel, new experiences make it seem like you’ve lived longer.) Be sure to check our coverage from this week!
Soon you’ll be able to print and customize your own Oreo through a vending machine-like 3D printer. This is what Bonin Bough, vice president of Global Media and Consumer Engagement at Mondelez International, calls “hacking food,” hacking meaning “breaking things to create value.” Bough explained the revolution of food. Society went from being hunters and […]
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