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March 29, 2023
8:30 AM to 12:30 PM CT
Half Day Workshop (Morning)Location
Acadian IDesigning Safer, More Humane Digital Experiences
Use design for good—create consentful tech for people, mitigate hate & bring ethics to the forefront. This workshop will give you the questions to ask & the tactics for creating new ways to engage with your users/customers without creating harm.
8:30 AM to 12:30 PM CT
Half Day Workshop (Morning)Location
Acadian IIWorkshop 101: Design and Facilitation
A well-designed workshop is an excellent way to get things done. And as UXers, our skills uniquely position us to help clients and teams explore options and come to consensus, both in person and online. But successful workshops don't happen by accident. And workshop design and facilitation aren't really taught in school or on the job. Workshop 101 gives participants a flexible workshop-building framework. Participants will explore workshop activities, tools,…
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM CT
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Pelican IInformation Architecture Essentials
Are you new to information architecture? This workshop teaches you the basic things you need to design digital places where information is easier to find and understand.
1:30 PM to 5:30 PM CT
Half Day Workshop (Afternoon)Location
Acadian IIAdvanced Information Architecture for large enterprises: working across systems, platforms, scale and time in large-scale information environments.
This workshop provides a framework to address scale in enterprise information environments, so you can create information architectures that are more coherent across systems and platforms, more resilient to organizational evolution, and more sustainable and useful over time as the organization changes. Workshop activities focus on practical, real-world examples with common enterprise systems like SharePoint, ServiceNow, Workday, SAP, OneDrive, Box, Slack, Teams, and low-code application environments like Appian and Power…
1:30 PM to 5:30 PM CT
Half Day Workshop (Afternoon)Location
TBDHow To See Architecture – Walking Workshop: “Wednesday – Decorated Sheds”
Join Dan Klyn for this half-day workshop, which is designed to equip participants with the BASIC framework for looking at the architectures of complex systems. Attendees will get out of the conference hotel and into the streets of downtown New Orleans in a facilitated exploration of the myriad ways that features in the built environment are configured by people to store, distribute, and reify different kinds of information. No special…
1:30 PM to 5:30 PM CT
Half Day Workshop (Afternoon)Location
Acadian IIntro to Card Sorting and Tree Testing
Heard about Card Sorting and Tree Testing but not sure where to start? Ready for some hands-on fun with these techniques? This workshop explores the who, what, when, where, why, and how of Card Sorting and Tree Testing. Great for novices and for intermediate practitioners looking to refine this skillset.
5:30 PM to 6:00 PM CT
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MelpomeneFirst-Timer Orientation
If you are new to the IA Conference (IAC) in-person, this session is for you. Led by an experienced member of the IAC community, this session is meant to give you a broad overview of the whole event and how to make the best of it.
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM CT
Social Event7:30 PM CT
NetworkingFirst-Timer Dinners
Get to know other first-timers and meet IAC veterans over dinner. Each dinner is hosted by two long-time members of the community. The reservations are made and all you have to do is cover your food and drinks. Space is limited. See March 14 email for details! Contact info@theiaconference.com if you have any questions.