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IAC21 Workshops

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April 21, 2021

10:30 AM to 12:30 PM CT

$125

Architecting Your Future: Conquering Imposter Syndrome with the 5-year resume

If you’re reading this, you’re likely part of the estimated 70% of people who’ve dealt with imposter syndrome at some point in their professional careers. Imposter syndrome is the psychological pattern where one doubts their skills and persistently fears being exposed as a “fraud”. It knows no limits to who it affects, and designers Madeline Packard and Shara Rosenbalm are no exception. These designers explore design methods and offer a…

April 21, 2021

2:00 PM to 4:00 PM CT

$200

Connecting Users to Content: An Introduction to Taxonomy Design & Creation

This workshop is sold out. Taxonomies have evolved from classification systems to adaptable interactive tools to link users to desired content on websites, intranets, and web applications. Taxonomies are not the same as a website’s navigation and can do a lot more. Taxonomies can provide guiding categories of topics, suggested search terms, aspects for faceted search, or topics for sorting and filtering results. To be truly helpful, however, taxonomies need…

Additional sessions

This workshop meets 3 times

  • April 21, 2021 2 PM to 4 PM EDT
  • April 22, 2021 2 PM to 4 PM EDT
  • April 23, 2021 2 PM to 4 PM EDT
Heather Hedden
Heather Hedden

April 23, 2021

11:30 AM to 3:30 PM CT

$125

Designing and Building Taxonomies for the Enterprise

This workshop is sold out This immersive workshop provides practical tactics for designing, building and maintaining 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…

April 22, 2021

10:30 AM to 12:30 PM CT

$125

Designing for a New World Using Systems Thinking

Now more than ever, we are seeing how the systems underlying society affect the people living within them. As designers, we have an opportunity to impact positive change. Learn to see the big picture and tackle big, messy problems by cultivating a systems thinking lens into your UX and IA practices. What is systems thinking? Why is it important? Engage in practical hands-on activities that you can bring back to…

April 19, 2021

2:00 PM to 5:00 PM CT

$125

Emerge User Needs in Your Information Architecture with a Usage Maturity Matrix

When we design our IA and other key design elements guided by a Usage Maturity Matrix we ease users into, and draw users deeper into, our design ecosystem. We intentionally emerge richer information, features and functions as our users are ready to experience them. In this workshop, participants will learn what a Usage Maturity Matrix is, will then breakout into an exploratory exercise using a UMM on their own digital…

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Scott Ryan-Hart

April 21, 2021

10:30 AM to 1:30 PM CT

$125

Finding the Happily Ever After – A Workshop Exploring a Narrative Approach to Product Design

No one’s story will begin, or end, with your product. In order to create useful, impactful and delightful designs, we need to consider the entire end to end user journey, from recognizing a need to meeting a goal, and determine how (or if) your product fits into the customer’s experience. Join Associate UX Director Chelsea Watson to explore how the established design thinking processes of creating user journeys, story maps…

April 22, 2021

2:00 PM to 3:30 PM CT

$125

From Strategy to Structure (and Back Again)

As a digital designer, you must think beyond the user interface to the underlying structures that give your systems coherence. These structures should serve the needs of your users, your organization, and society. To do so, you must understand your organization’s strategic directions. This fast-paced workshop introduces strategic thinking for designers. Sign in now to access workshop resources.

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Jorge Arango
Jorge Arango

April 19, 2021

2:00 PM to 3:30 PM CT

$125

Information Architecture Essentials

This workshop is sold out. More of our lives are happening online every day. We interact and transact through digital systems on a growing variety of devices. More understandable and coherent systems = better experiences. As a result, information architecture (IA) is more important than ever. In this fast-paced workshop, you will: Understand the primary goals of information architectureLearn how people find and understand informationLearn to define conceptual modelsMaster necessary…

Jorge Arango
Jorge Arango

April 20, 2021

2:00 PM to 5:00 PM CT

$125

Introduction to Ontology Concepts and Modeling

This workshop is sold out. Are you interested in learning more about ontologies but don’t know where to begin? Our “Introduction to Ontology Concepts and Modeling” workshop comprises a three-hour introduction aimed at IAs who are interested in ontologies and would like to learn the basics, including: Complex knowledge organization schemes and concept structures Basics of ontological relationships Information on existing ontologies for re-use The difference between upper and lower…

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Bob Kasenchak
Bob Kasenchak

April 20, 2021

11:30 AM to 1:00 PM CT

$200

Leave a Trail of Breadcrumbs: Designing Navigation with Customer Intentions

As IAs we’re fond of taking the “human-centered” approach, which involves bringing in the human perspective to all steps of the problem-solving process. Whether we are talking to customers or co-creating solutions with users, this frame of mind allows us to bring forth products and services that serve human needs and goals. The thing is, the understanding two humans can reach in a matter of minutes is tough to replicate…

Additional sessions

This workshop meets 4 times

  • April 20, 2021 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT
  • April 21, 2021 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT
  • April 22, 2021 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT
  • April 23, 2021 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT
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Thanks to this year’s sponsors!

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Optimal Workshop
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Gold sponsor
Factor Firm
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Silver sponsor
Last Call Media
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Scholarship sponsor
Design for Context

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In-Kind sponsor
A Book Apart
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In-Kind sponsor
Balsamiq
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MURAL
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OOUX Masterclass
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In-Kind sponsor
Rosenfeld Media

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Community sponsor
UX Camp DC
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Community sponsor
World IA Day

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