Blend and design-focused MIX10 Open Call Entries

Voting on the open call sessions for MIX10 went live yesterday. You have until January 15th to submit a ballot with your top 5 choices. The most voted sessions will then be announced on Monday, January 18th.

There are only a few variables to select your top 5 picks. The Title is possibly the most important, as its used as the link text in the list to read more details. Speaker name could be influential, if recognized (or not recognized). Then the abstract, which is ideally to 2-3 sentences or 1 amazing sentence. Let’s hope the submitters spent some time on their entries.

Additionally, with more than 150 sessions to choose from the list can be a little daunting to wade through. As an added boost for the submitters’ chances, allow me to highlight those covering my favorite technologies: Expression Blend, SketchFlow and Silverlight.

Silverlight Design

• Creating Effective Info Viz in Silverlight – Matthias Shapiro
• Sketching Interactions with C# – Rick Barraza
• Design Essentials for Line of Business Applications – Matthias Shapiro
• Hollywood Draws First Blood: Media, Magic and Experience Design – Rick Barraza
• Guerrilla User Research – Carrying out missions behind enemy lines to get the insight you need – Jason Alderman
• Creating Effective and Engaging Game Based Training Experiences With Silverlight – Vance Souders
• The Neuroscience of Great Silverlight – Erik Mork
• ART & CODE – Erik Klimczak
• Syncing Audio, Video and Animations in Silverlight Applications – Dan Wahlin
• Resizing Silverlight Layouts – Erik Mork

Expression Blend

• Lighting up with Blend – Mason Brown
• Function versus Aesthetic (or ‘What happens when two opposing forces collide?’) – Jason Dorsey
• From Blend to Printed Page – Real World Printing with Silverlight – Joel Hammond-Turner
• WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT WHAT IS THERE. Users mind as a resource in Expression Blend – Claudio Guglieri and Richard Acosta
• Tips and Tricks for the WPF/Silverlight Developer: How to get the most out of developing in Blend and Visual Studio – Victor Gaudioso
• Will it Blend? – Shawn Wildermuth
• Creative Suite and Expression Suite: Sweet Harmony? – Matt Tamaru
• Mixing it Up With Blend – Andy Jacobs

SketchFlow

• Taking Wireframes to the Next Dimension with SketchFlow – Matt Tamaru
• SketchFlow for Real Software Development – David Wesst
• Reduce Your Risks with SketchFlow – Vicky Tamaru
• “Ah-gee-lay? Must be Italian”: Agile for Designers – Erik Klimczak
• PowerPoint? Psshhht! Win Some Love with Dynamic Prototypes – Erik Klimczak

NUI and Touch

• Developing Natural User Interfaces with Silverlight and WPF 4 Touch – Joshua Blake
• Building engaging touch-based experiences using Silverlight – John Stockton
• Real-world multi touch applications on Surface and Silverlight – Boris Rogge, Ph.D.
• Multi Dos and Don’t touches –Multi Touch Development from the trenches – David Kelley

Designer and Developer Collaboration

• A day in the life of a Silverlight/WPF Integrator – Laurent Bugnion
• Baking a great Silverlight UX: the recipe for successful designer-developer collaboration – Nick Harewood
• Breaking Down Walls – The Story of Getting designers and developers working together in an Agency Environment – David Kelley

 

Good luck to all who submitted!  Now to pick my personal top 5…