Michael Leis

In one of the sadder moments of SXSW, as I was feverishly typing away on a live post about Gaming the Crowd: Turning Work Into Play presented by Andy Baio when the WordPress iPhone app crashed. Worse yet, Mr. Baio has not published the slides. Hope he will soon, because he presented a lot of [...]

We are entering a world where controlling a computer goes beyond a keyboard and mouse. The Wii, iPhone, iPad, bluetooth, wi-fi, microsoft surface, multitouch. The computing paradigms are changing. We’re looking at clips of Iron Man and Minority report of future computing systems and interfaces. Topics around: being human, casual computing, gesture, physicality, sociality.

User Experience as a field, and Website creation in general can stand to learn a thing or two from distinctly old-media craft: namely screenwriting and film theory. This year, I’m lucky enough to be joined by Cindy Chastain in proposing to present the topic at SXSW 2010 on exactly how to do that. To expand [...]

IDEA2009 runs September 15 and 16 in Toronto where the world’s foremost thinkers and practitioners will gather: sharing the big ideas that inspire, and practical solutions that improve the way people’s lives converge with technology. Whether you’re a designer, strategist, writer, UX professional, IA, or working in anything interactive, you should attend IDEA2009. Create the [...]