SXSW Interactive Day 4
posted Mar 22, 2011 at 11:47:32 PM by Doug Gibson.
After being out the previous night, I decided to sleep in and didn’t head out to any talks until 11am. The shuttles seemed scarce and I came into “5 Steps To Bulletproof UX Strategy” a little late. It was an interesting talk though, discussing how to create a user experience strategy via audit, define, plan, implement, measure (repeat). The example of the Vision Onesheet seemed like a useful addition to the design process as well.
“Authentication Fails = ID Thieves Succeed. What’s Next?” was a decent talk that covered many security concerns and ways people have stolen personal information through different technologies, such as unlocked iPhones. There were some interesting password stats from recent data leaks as well. It’s funny that the most common passwords are “123456” and “password” still - even at a security firm that was recently hacked. Unbelievable. I was hoping there would be more answers as to the common login scenario on web sites, but alas, there were not - at least none that I hadn’t already heard/put into place (use a salted hash for password storage for the best data security).
“Moving the Web onto Mobile Devices” was another canned panel discussing the practical concerns - in their experiences - with moving or replicating the web experience on mobile devices. It was an ok panel. There were some interesting insights, a lot of talk about the myth of what HTML5 really is, but not a lot of questions answered, once again.
Finally, I hit up “DIY Diplomacy: Designing Collaborative Gov” to fill my government-related quota for the day. This one was fairly interesting as well, focusing on the Department of State’s efforts to share information better such as in the Virtual Student Foreign Service and Diplopedia projects. It was interesting to hear about some of the efforts and struggles against government culture, but again, I didn’t take away much relevant to my everyday work.
That wrapped up Day 4 of SXSWi.
