Joe is a long-time UXer – from tech writing in the mid-’90s to HCI in the late ’90s into IA and IxD through today. Currently he’s a senior UX designer at Fahrenheit-212, a Capgemini company. He’s known as an avid motorcyclist, having ridden to conferences in Chicago, New Orleans, Baltimore and Charleston. He’s been a […]
#IAC20
News and announcements for the IA conference #IAC20, originally to take place in New Orleans, Louisiana.
A community comes together, remotely.
It’s ironic that in this age of social distancing the IA community has come together like never before to make IAC20 a success. We’ve drafted in more volunteers to help us plan the logistics and format for IAC20 – our first digital information architecture conference. We’re hearing that while some of you have lots of […]
Meet the team – Kyle Soucy
Kyle has been working as an independent UX Research Consultant for the last 15 years. She’s based in New Hampshire and is originally from Philadelphia. She specializes in user research and usability testing. She’s the Founder and President of NH UXPA and served as the Chair of PhillyCHI. She’s also been serving as the IAC […]
Coronavirus Covid-19 and IAC20
Update 14 March We want to express our sympathy and support for everyone who has faced disruption or difficulties due to COVID-19. We can definitely empathise. Over the last few weeks we’ve been planning for how to respond. Our priority has always been to safeguard the health of our community and act responsibly. But we […]
Meet Adam Polansky
Adam is a long time UXer based in Dallas. He’s been involved with the conference since it began as the IA Summit. He coordinates the speaker support program matching speakers with coaches and running the speaker’s studio where speakers can prepare before they take the stage. Here are a few more facts about Adam: What’s […]
Introduction to the IA Conference Advisory Board
While the IA Conference has only been around for two years, it draws on 19 years of rich tradition from the IA Summit. One of the great traditions is the volunteer work from the IA community to plan and staff the conference. While this gives the conference an accessible and homegrown feel, it is also […]
Meet Stacy Surla, Curator of Poster Night
Stacy Surla is Vice President of MetaMetrics Inc., a veteran-owned, family consultancy that provides UX and evaluation services in support of a democratic and open-market world. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland iSchool, was a twice-elected officer of the IA Institute, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of […]
Launching the IAC20 Scholarship Program
Besides financial support, recipients will have access to peer mentoring and a large alumni network. Critical for long-term impact, the program offers continuing education and professional development opportunities foundational to obtaining leadership positions within the profession.
Meet MaShana Davis
MaShana (muh-shay-nuh) has been hugely helpful in both the curation of the conference and the scholarship program. Find out what made her volunteer for IAC20.
Meet Chiara Ogan
Chiara is helping to deliver the scholarship program for IAC20. As always, we want IAC to welcome new practitioners to the IA community. The IA Conference Scholarship is designed for students new to the field, and is open to individuals in the US as well as other countries.
Our closing keynote speaker is Christian Crumlish
We’re pleased to announce that our closing plenary speaker at IAC20 will be Christian Crumlish. Christian has been there throughout the birth and development of information architecture as a leader, mentor, and an avid participant in our community.
Introducing our keynote speaker – Reginé Gilbert
To close the second day of the main program for IAC20 we’ll welcome Reginé Gilbert.
Reginé is a user experience designer, educator, and international public speaker with over 10 years of experience working in the technology arena. She has a strong belief in making the world a more accessible place—one that starts and ends with the user.
Our third keynote is Mutale Nkonde
Mutale’s areas of interest and expertise closely align with our theme of making-sense. And there’s a connection to the mischief and serious damage that can result from intentional and unintentional information architecture – which we also want to highlight at IAC 20.
Cassini Nasir is our second Keynote speaker at IAC20
As a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, Cassini currently teaches interaction design, web design, and design principles. He also serves as Director of Design and Research for the ArtSciLab
Announcing our first keynote speaker for IAC20
We’re pleased to announce our first keynote speaker for IAC20. Our theme in New Orleans is making sense and we’re building a program of talented, creative, brilliant people to share their insights and experience. We wanted our keynotes to be a combination of established as well as emerging voices who have something to say on […]
Last chance to submit
2020 will be a big year for The IA Conference and we’d love to see you there. Over the last 6 weeks we’ve received lots of submissions to present and share ideas at the conference. But we’re extending the call for submissions a little longer, until MIDNIGHT EST on 10/21. We’d love to attract even […]
Meet the team – Mykle Brossette, Local liaison & Diversity, Inclusion and safety
I am an Independent UX researcher and consultant based in New Orleans. My recent projects have been working on Expert Reviews and Usability Testing for a museum, research center and publisher. Along with working on a retail catalog import project for a local start-up company in New Orleans. What’s been your favourite moment as an […]
Update from the co-chairs – IAI and IAC
We were sad to see the announcement today that the IA Institute will be dissolved. We each have stories of how the institute either helped introduce us to information architecture in the first place or helped us to develop our expertise and grow. But as the current co-chairs of the IA Conference, we wanted to […]
Meet the team – Alberta Soranzo, Curation director
Here we introduce the Curation director for the IA Conference 2020, Alberta Soranzo. As a former co-chair of IA Summit and EuroIA she knows the joy as well as the challenges of helping to organise a successful conference. Who are you? I work in London as design director at the largest British financial services group. […]
Meet the co-chairs: Dan Ramsden
Next in our ‘meet the team’ series of posts we introduce one of our co-chairs – Dan Ramsden. We’ve asked the same few questions to all the team working on the conference, starting with… Where do you work and what do you do? I’m Creative director for two teams at the BBC. I lead the […]