IAC23 Workshops

This immersive workshop provides practical tactics for designing, building, maintaining, and governing taxonomies and ontologies. Based on hard-won lessons learned from work with everything from large fortune-50 enterprises to small ecommerce sites. The workshop provides: Taxonomy/Ontology basics: a foundation to start creating a consistent vocabulary within your organization. We also call out the unique needs of building a taxonomy to serve the needs of large enterprises.A framework for shifting to…

As Information Architects, we get called into projects to structure, organize, and optimize complex information systems to meet business and user goals. All too often, however, these systems are plagued by unwritten assumptions and tacit rules. Domain Modeling is an activity designed to uncover and create a shared vision of the conceptual information space—the ""Domain”—in which an organization and its users operate. This full day, hands-on workshop will situate domain…

Information architecture and UX are practiced as forms of design—the design of products, systems, and desired futures to satisfy human needs and values. In practice, we use models of ""the design process” that are over 20 years old, if not a half century old. Our field is rapidly changing, and we know that the Double Diamond doesn't tell the full story of how we work. Are existing models of the…

Extended Reality (VR, AR, MR, collectively XR) promises to change, or possibly replace, the world around us, immersing us in a different ""here and now”, be it a company-controlled Metaverse, a remote location on Earth, a fictional world, or a different, augmented version of our home or of familiar places such as our workplace or our favorite supermarket. But XR "elsewheres” are unique blends of digital and physical that introduce…

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.

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.

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,…

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…

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…

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.