As of September 2, Panel Picker voting is closed. You can, however, still leave comments on the proposals you find interesting. We will announce the first set of accepted panels on Thursday, October 2. Stay tuned to the SXSW Interactive Festival website for these announcements, or e-mail us if you have questions.
Contemporary application frameworks like Rails bring more designers into contact with application development. Expectations for user experience cause software developers to confront interaction design issues. Each culture holds part of the answer to a mounting crisis in software quality, yet these two cultures often neglect to realize that they talk past each other and continue to fail to learn from each other.