Brynn Evans
I'm a user experience designer and strategist. Ask me about @awesomesfo, @thebetacup, @sketchcamp, & @Overlap!

Google I/O brings together thousands of developers for two days of deep technical content, focused on building the next generation of web, mobile, and enterprise applications with Google and open web technologies such as Android, Google Chrome, Google APIs, Google Web Toolkit, App Engine, and more.

Buy your ticket to the hottest food and wine event of 2011 and help fight childhood hunger! Buy your ticket here: http://bit.ly/e9MZtW

Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation is the nation's premier culinary benefit, featuring top chefs and mixologists -- all of whom are coming together to donate their time, talent and passion to end...

This panel will explore ways that games can be used to motivate personal change and increase productivity. We'll start by talking about the theory behind games and gamification for behavior change — in contrast to games for social networking (e.g., Foursquare) — and how game-like activities have been used for a long time to encourage...

A night of exceptional beverages, hot jamz, and fierce competition. Together, we shall raise our pint glasses and plastic cups in revelry to celebrate a great year in web design.

This year, the BeerCamp competition will take form in a flip cup tournament.

#PitchSXSW

Join Canaan on the rooftop of ROIAL for tasty beverages, Royales with Cheese and a chance to meet and pitch the VCs behind Match.com, DoubleClick, SuccessFactors, Associated Content, Zoosk, Lending Club, Blip.tv, Blurb, Tremor Media, PrimeSense and Kabam.

GOT A BIG IDEA?
If you’re a hot startup looking for funding, and you’d like...

While we know, from a very young age, how to ask questions, the skill of getting the right information from users is surprisingly complex and nuanced. This session will focus on getting past the obvious shallow information into the deeper, more subtle, yet crucial, insights. If you are going to the effort to meet with users in order to improve your...

SXSWi is right around the corner. Why not kick it off with a bang at the Official SXSWi Happy Hour sponsored by Razorfish?

Join us on Saturday, March 12th, 2011, from 6-8PM at the Phoenix (409 B Colorado St). DJ Hot Sauce will be spinning the tunes to get you in the mood to party. And the open bar means there will be plenty of free drinks. But...

The Institute on Higher Awesome Studies cordially invites you to attend its second annual global meetup of Deans, micro-trustees, and friends of the Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences during the SXSW Interactive festival.

ON THE AGENDA:
-That Really Great Thing You Saw On The Internet
-Dinosaurs
-Stuff, I Think It Had To Do With A Thing...

After the SXSW love-fest, startups and advertisers will want to collaborate. Warning: it’s not easy. This panel will break down the cultural and organizational barriers between startups and brands, and we'll discuss a model for mutually beneficial relationships. We’ll address questions like: How should startups pitch a brand? Can startups...

The social web is now a teenager –awkward, arrogant, snarky, fearless, experimental and open. She is shaking things up and having a major impact on our culture, social dynamics and etiquette. What are the new social dynamics and cultural impacts of all these tools and technologies? This session will explore the emerging etiquette issues of our...

A Cowboy Steampunk themed part at SXSW. Done by the same crew that did pastriesandpasties.com in 09 and the steampunk party that brought Maker Faire to Austin Texas in 2006. The lineup is already looking amazing... website should be up soon!

Game mechanics aren't just for games anymore. Designers of all social apps increasingly depend on gameplay to motivate users, and direct them towards goals. Organizations, too, use games to engage employees and customers to encourage full participation. Many familiar game mechanics are deeply rooted in competition, pitting people against each...

To attend this event you must register on EventBrite: http://coworkingunconference.eventbrite.com/. Nab tickets before it's too late!


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Join your fellow coworkers in kicking off SXSWi 2011 at the first U.S. Coworking Unconference, where we’ll share ideas and lessons learned, meet others in our community, and celebrate the coworking...

IxDA’s Interaction11 Conference is now SOLD OUT!

February 9-12, 2011 (Wednesday through Saturday)
Boulder, Colorado, USA
presented by IxDA in partnership with Boulder Digital Works (BDW)
http://www.ixda.org/interaction

Follow on Twitter - @IxDConf
Conference hashtag - #IxD11

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Registration is now closed - the conference sold...

The club formerly known as DWAHWSC - Designers Who Also Happen To Work At Startup Companies.

Startups are a specialized environment to work as a designer, compared to agencies, enterprise or freelancing, so let's get together and talk shop.

Your favorite short pants wearing man(child) is turning the big 3-0, and what better place to gather for a drink to celebrate your internal child than in a bar decorated as the inside of a pirate ship!

It's a UK men's birthday extravaganza - it's also Simon Wistow's birthday and Simon Willison (a recent UK transplant)...

Want to work just four hours a week? Ferriss believes he can show you how. This Jack-of-all-trades has done it all, from becoming the National Chinese Kickboxing Champion and the Guinness World Record-holder for tango dancing to working for education reform. In his controversial book, The 4-Hour Workweek, Ferriss advocates throwing out old ideas of...

Halloween Party by Tae Kim, Tori Kayal, Susan Oak, Andrew Walla

THIS PAGE IS A STUB. THE RSVP AND FULL EVENT PAGE IS AT:
http://my.pingg.com/comeonecomeoh

Map: http://ke.vc/c8j7OS

We're getting married on 10-10-10! To celebrate with all of our friends & family, we're holding a grand party the day before! This is a PUBLIC EVENT so invite your friends!

In honor of the binary date, the party...

Warm Gun is a new 1-day conference on October 8th in San Francisco for designers & non-designers to learn about elegant, purposeful, and measurable online design.

Brought to you by Dave McClure & 500 Startups.

http://warmgun.com

Join the Board of the Awesome Foundation and meet the folks behind "PaperGirl SF" -the September Grant Recipient. Also, check out their site, http://www.papergirl-sf.com which will have details about the art opening of the art, before it is "delivered" to its recipients.

Rishi, Rod & Vivek are striking out. We're leaving our day jobs and starting our own company, Offline Labs. Please join us this Friday to help celebrate!

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Even if you can't make the event, you can still help us! We'd love everyone who knows us to subscribe to our "Friends & Family" email list at...

Register now because space is limited and the guest list is filling up fast: http://chomp.eventbrite.com/

Chomp is excited to host the last big tech bash of the summer. On August 24 join us for drinks (open bar 7-8:30p) , music, and the company of many of Chomp’s tastemakers including Kevin Rose and Robert Scoble.

At our WWDC party, held...

Public transit: King St & 2nd St

Come join us as we celebrate an amazing summer in SF and head off to work (and travel!) in China for the next month...

http://www.circasf.com/

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All -- we've confirmed a spot, so we can rock out like we were 22 again (aka, like Don): Circa in the Marina. We'll be getting there at 10pm, and have reserved the private...