Thursday, February 5

 
9:00AM
- 1:00PM
Workshop: Design Studio
Jeanine Harriman & Liya Zheng -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
Workshop: So you want to be a Hardware/Software Interaction Designer ...
Ted Booth, Michele Tepper -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
Workshop: Well, we did all this research … now what?
Steve Portigal -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
2:00PM
- 4:00PM
Workshop: Mock-up Web & Application Design with Adobe Fireworks CS4
David Hogue and Alan Musselman -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
2:00PM
- 6:00PM
Workshop: Designing for Touch screens and Interactive Gestures
Bill DeRouchey and Dan Saffer -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
Workshop: Web Form Design
Luke Wroblewski -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
4:00PM
- 6:00PM
Workshop: Exploring Cross-Discipline Workflows with Adobe
Doug Winnie and Ryan Stewart -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
7:00PM
- 8:00PM
IxDA Pub Crawl

Friday, February 6

 
9:00AM
- 1:00PM
IxDA: Local Leaders Workshop
Janna Hicks DeVylder -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
Workshop: Basic Deliverables: Wireframes and Flows
Dan Brown -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
Workshop: Designing and Building with Patterns and Pattern Libraries
 
Workshop: Designing for Touch screens and Interactive Gestures
Bill DeRouchey and Dan Saffer -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
Workshop: Drawing Ideas
Mark Baskinger & William Bardel -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
Workshop: Introduction to Interaction Design
David Malouf -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
2:00PM
- 2:10PM
Conference Opening Remarks
Josh Seiden, IxDA President -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
2:10PM
- 3:10PM
Keynote: Experiencing Sustainability
John Thackara -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
3:10PM
- 3:30PM
Break
-- Four Seasons Hotel
 
3:30PM
- 4:30PM
Jared Spool & Friends
Jared Spool -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
4:30PM
- 4:50PM
Break
-- Four Seasons Hotel
 
4:50PM
- 5:50PM
Keynote
Fiona Raby -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
5:50PM
- 6:20PM
Day Recap
-- Four Seasons Hotel
 
7:00PM
- 9:00PM
Reception
-- Four Seasons Hotel

Saturday, February 7

 
7:30AM
- 8:30AM
Breakfast, sponsored by R/GA. "Marketing + Interaction Design: The Real Deal"
-- Four Seasons Hotel
 
8:45AM
- 9:00AM
Saturday Opening Remarks
Liz Bacon, Vice President IxDA -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
9:00AM
- 10:00AM
Keynote: Irrational Behavior
Robert Fabricant -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
10:00AM
- 10:20AM
Break
-- Four Seasons Hotel
 
10:20AM
- 11:00AM
Design by Community - The Drupal.org redesign
Leisa Reichelt -- Hotel Vancouver
 
Session: Parti & The Design Sandwich
Luke Wroblewski -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
11:00AM
- 11:20AM
Break
 
11:20AM
- 12:00PM
Session
Katherine Coombs -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
Session: Designing Natural Interfaces: Notes from the Multi-Touch, Multi-User Frontlines
Darren David & Nathan Moody -- Hotel Vancouver
 
12:00PM
- 1:15PM
Lunch
-- Four Seasons Hotel
 
1:30PM
- 1:55PM
Feeling: What makes an engaging product experience?
Kumi Akiyoshi -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
Interaction Design Synthesis: Translating Research into Insight
Jon Kolko -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
Postcard Patterns: An Agile UI Pattern Creation Process
Ian Swinson -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
Visual Complexity: A visual exploration on mapping complex networks
Manuel Lima -- Four Seasons Hotel
 
1:55PM
- 2:15PM
Break
-- Four Seasons Hotel
 
2:15PM
- 2:40PM
How to Build Your First Spime Management System
Dan Willis -- Four Seasons, Park Ballroom C
 
Mission Critical Interaction Design
Mikkel Michelsen -- Hotel Vancouver Fairmont, Saturna Room
 
Weathering the current economic climate: A group conversation
Josh Seiden -- Four Seasons, Seasons Room
 
Where Should You Put the “Submit” Button? Explore how Gestalt laws inform interface design
Michael Salamon -- Four Seasons, Arbutus Room
 
2:40PM
- 3:00PM
Break
-- Four Seasons Hotel
 
3:00PM
- 3:25PM
Building a Digital Concept Car
Andrei Herasimchuk -- Four Seasons, Park Ballroom C
 
Gorilla methods for designing in the wild
Paula Wellings -- Four Seasons, Seasons Room
 
Metaphor Brainstorming: Using Metaphors to Generate Design Ideas, Requirements, and Product Personality
Chauncey Wilson -- Four Seasons, Arbutus Room
 
State Mapping
Dante Murphy -- Hotel Vancouver Fairmont, Saturna Room
 
3:25PM
- 3:45PM
Break
-- Four Seasons Hotel
 
3:45PM
- 4:10PM
Design for Life by Identifying the Lifecycle of an Experience
German Leon Osorio -- Four Seasons, Seasons Room
 
Sketching haptic and multimodal interaction
Camille Moussette -- Four Seasons, Park Ballroom C
 
Surviving a Design Review
Charles Kreitzberg -- Four Seasons, Arbutus Room
 
Tailored Interactions
Simon King -- Hotel Vancouver Fairmont, Saturna Room
 
4:10PM
- 4:30PM
Break
-- Four Seasons Hotel
 
4:30PM
- 5:30PM
Keynote: Carpe Diem: Attention, Awareness, and Interaction Design 2009
Dan Saffer -- Four Seasons, Park Ballroom
 
7:00PM
- 9:00PM
Reception, sponsored by Autodesk.
-- Hotel Vancouver Fairmont, Pacific Ballroom

Sunday, February 8

 
7:30AM
- 8:30AM
Breakfast, sponsored by Manifest Digital. "UX Designers: Business Leaders Needed."
-- Hotel Vancouver Fairmont, Pacific Ballroom
 
8:45AM
- 9:00AM
Sunday Opening Remarks
-- Four Seasons, Park Ballroom
 
9:00AM
- 10:00AM
Keynote: How to Change Complicated Stuff (e.g., the World)
Marc Rettig -- Four Seasons, Park Ballroom
 
10:00AM
- 10:20AM
Break
-- Four Seasons & Hotel Vancouver
 
10:20AM
- 11:00AM
Session
Jenifer Tidwell -- Hotel Vancouver Fairmont, Saturna Room
 
Session: Enlightened Trial and Error - Gaining Design Insight Through New Prototyping Tools
Bjorn Hartman -- Four Seasons, Park Ballroom
 
11:00AM
- 11:20AM
Break
-- Four Seasons & Hotel Vancouver
 
11:20AM
- 12:00PM
Session: Designing the Viral App
Christina Wodtke -- Four Seasons, Park Ballroom
 
Session: Foundations of Interaction Design: Bringing design critique to interaction design
David Malouf -- Hotel Vancouver Fairmont, Saturna Room
 
12:00PM
- 1:15PM
Lunch
-- Four Seasons Hotel
 
1:30PM
- 1:55PM
Interaction impacts Service Design
Paul A. Joo -- Four Seasons, Seasons Room
 
Lo-Fi: Sketchbook Techniques for Interaction Designers
Tim Wood -- Four Seasons, Park Ballroom C
 
What’s in a game? A look at game design best practices as prime influencers of interaction design.
Nadya Direkova -- Four Seasons, Arbutus Room
 
1:55PM
- 2:10PM
Break
-- Four Seasons Hotel
 
2:10PM
- 2:35PM
A New Approach to Optimizing Exisiting Sites for Mobile Access Using CSS, XHTML and Selective Transcoding
Igor Faletski -- Four Seasons, Park Ballroom C
 
Object-Oriented-Design (OOD): A Wireframing and Specifications Technique for Rich Interactions and Complex Business Logic
Nick Iozzo -- Hotel Vancouver Fairmont, Saturna Room
 
Play in social and tangible interactions
Kars Alfrink -- Four Seasons, Seasons Room
 
Waiting
Joseph Dombroski -- Four Seasons, Arbutus Room
 
2:35PM
- 2:50PM
Break
-- Four Seasons Hotel
 
2:50PM
- 3:15PM
Designing for Teams, Designing for Touch
Joe Fletcher -- Four Seasons, Park Ballroom C
 
Designing in the Open
Aza Raskin -- Four Seasons, Arbutus Room
 
Journeys in Motion
Chloe Gottleib & Jill Nussbaum -- Hotel Vancouver Fairmont, Saturna Room
 
Understanding Contexts of Use
Miles Rochford -- Four Seasons, Seasons Room
 
3:15PM
- 3:30PM
Break
-- Four Seasons Hotel
 
3:30PM
- 4:30PM
Keynote: Each One, Teach One (and Other Ideas for Delivering on the Promise)
Kim Goodwin -- Four Seasons, Park Ballroom
 
4:30PM
- 5:00PM
Closing Conference Remarks