Michael Leis

And hello to badge pickup and our warm up for many, many, many long lines. Looking forward to Margot bloomenstein at 2pm, and maybe some BBQ lunch. Here we go! Update: by 2pm, the lines stretched across the entire building. Woo hoo! Now I’m glad I was in the short line.

Very ready to dive back into SXSW this year, and write this as a warning. Over the next two weeks, I’ll do my best to fill this blog with the same kind of coverage I did two years ago. Mostly I do this for all the people who can’t make it. There’s too much good [...]

If you know me, you know that I volunteer my time to lead sponsorship and marketing for the IDEA conference because I believe it’s an incredibly valuable learning experience for the UX community. Designing for complex information spaces melding the physical and virtual is critical knowledge for anyone with a stake in designing digital today, [...]

Holy moly, it’s less than a month to SXSW. Going back after skipping last year, I’m starting to mentally prepare for the nonstop everything of interactive that makes it such a worthwhile event. Here are some tips, insights and ideas that will hopefully help you get more from the event: