SxSW Needs a User Experience Expert
From the DDM blog …
You read yesterday about the definitively non-interactive registration process here at SxSW. As I arrived five minutes early to attend my next panel, Web App Autopsy, I was informed at the door that the panel had been moved to the third floor. I soon discovered that the only access to the third floor was through the two tiny elevators. There was a line around the interior block of the conference center for these elevators. I waited in this line for about 15 minutes. Finally getting my turn on the elevator I found myself packed in like pickles (Ellen reference … substitute sardines if you haven’t seen it) while I enjoyed a very stuffy, aromatic, and painfully slow ride down to the third floor from the second. That’s right … don’t make me explain it, because I can’t.
When I finally reached the panel, 10 minutes late, I had to sit at the way back, and could barely hear the panelists. I think it might have been an interesting discussion, but I couldn’t tell, so I left early to grab some much needed coffee.
March 10th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
I would liken the experience to Sardines. Who ever built this building was on crack, the floors don’t connect and it’s a lot of tracking back and forth and hoping your panel didn’t change rooms!
March 10th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
i’m enjoying reading these…it’s almost like we are there! i really like the design inspiration one
March 11th, 2007 at 12:00 am
yeah, it wasn’t that bad, but other panels have certainly been better. it didn’t seem like it was about usability very much, though. don’t worry, there’s plenty more on the way. of sxsw, and more importantly, me. ;)
October 9th, 2007 at 11:48 am
you’re designs are great!
How do I get such ideas?
Greetings from Germany
Joern