James DiStefano

Executive Director of User Experience :: New York office

SXSW: Visualizing Star Wars Uncut

Star Wars Uncut: The Future of Crowdsourcing. Great panel, but even greater visualization of the discussion. Not sure my notes could summarize better than this drawing, that was made live, on-the-fly while the discussion was going on.

SXSW: Layers of meaning around search

I stayed around for Marissa Mayer’s presentation about the “fast, fun, future” of search. I love studying search patterns as an observational tool, as search is an expression of user desire. The talk centered around the continued use of layers of meaning to refine results. The example people see most often is location – location as a layer of meaning that helps understand and predict the meaning behind a query.