I was lucky to sit through this presentation from Doug McClure and his great panel.

It's that time of the year again and I'm doing the SXSW dance. The biggest challenge so far is picking the sessions that will be the most interesting and beneficial. At the end of the first day, here is my session tally.
Session 1: Emerging Social and Technology Trends
I must admit I had high hopes but this was less than enlightening. I had hoped it would be interesting and spur some interesting thoughts. Oh well.
Session 2: Getting to consistency Good session with discussion on providing users with a consistent experience. While primarily application focused, Steve Johnson from Adobe had some great comments about putting user goals first, focus on user workflow and not using the word 'feature' too much.

• Consistency for the sake of consistency is not worth it, do it if it benefits the user
• Let users drive changes in product (Adoption of RAW drove Adobe LightRoom)
• Use defined toolkits as much as possible to drive consistency
• Use of 508 compliance (accessibility) to drive unit testing.

Session 3: Web App Autopsy While a few minutes late due to technical difficulties, the session was very enlightening. The panel represented folks from a variety of