Design Thinking Digest

Chris Bernard is speaking at SxSW Interative

To be honest my speaking opportunities at SxSW are only going to be one part of the excitement. Between PhizzPop and some other things we are doing with are doing with SxSW we are going to have a surprising and fun presence at this event. But...even though I'm a designer I'm still a bit of a geek too and that's why this panel that I've submitted to SxSW is so exciting to me.

Hollywood and Design and Literature: Just who is inspiring who?

Gattaca, Minority Report, Children of Men, Battlestar Galatica. Cinema and television inspire technologists and vice versa. Who’s driving who these days? Join interaction designers and some of Hollywood’s best special effects artists and story tellers and discover how convergence in these two worlds is already happening.

A review of Hollywood inspiration.

A debate on what’s really coming in the future.

A discussion on how science fiction and Hollywood inspires us.

Chris Bernard is speaking at MIX 2008

So MIX is probably my favorite event that Microsoft hosts all year. This year the 72 hour conversation gets far most interesting with the additional of a focused MIX UX track that will feature folks like Lou Carbone, David Armano, the fine folks from Adaptive Path and designers  from our Office, Surface and Media and Entertainment teams.

In addition, I'll be moderating a panel at MIX called:

 

Touch Me: Where are interfaces going?

The Keyboard and Mouse are aging input devices. For the future of computing and UX where are interfaces going? Are these enough? Is touch-screen Surface/iPhone/iPod Touch just a gimmick? Where should Man Machine Interface (MMI) go?

Seat are filling up fast at MIX and this is a conference that is selling out fast. Click the pretty picture below to get signed up.