Current role: Poster Night Organizer
Past roles: co-chair, poster presenter, speaker, volunteer, and workshop facilitator
LinkedIn profile
Twitter: @stacysurla
Website: http://www.metametrics.com/
Stacy Surla has created and led workshops for government, industry, and the UX community for over 20 years. Drawing on her experiences as a performance artist, UX practitioner, and teacher, Stacy helps people transform meetings into more engaging and effective ways to get work done. Recent workshops include a bootcamp-style training for Lean UX delivery managers, a team-driven workshop for integrating UX into Agile, co-planning the annual IA Academic and Practitioners Roundtable, and a workshop on designing and facilitating workshops. As with all her work, she integrates design thinking, Lean UX, and user-centered methods to put people at the heart of each effort. Stacy is Vice President of MetaMetrics Inc., an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland iSchool, and was a twice-elected officer of the Information Architecture Institute.
Conference talks
- IA and Ethics – 2018 Roundtable Redux (2018 Main Conference Talk)
- IA and Ethics: Academics’ and Practitioners’ Roundtable (Day 2) (2018 Pre-Conference Workshop)
- IA and Ethics: Academics’ and Practitioners’ Roundtable (Day 1) (2018 Pre-Conference Workshop)
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Language of Critique for Information Architecture (2016 Main Conference Talk)
- Design Doing: Creating a Digital Practice (2015 Main Conference Talk)
- Diversity and Inclusion in Information Architecture: The 7th Academics and Practitioners Roundtable (2019 Pre-Conference Workshop)
- Diversity and Inclusion in Information Architecture: The 7th Academics and Practitioners Roundtable (Day 2) (2019 Pre-Conference Workshop)
- Share Outs from the Diversity and Inclusion in Information Architecture Practitioners Roundtable (2019 Main Conference Talk)
- The Art and Science of Workshop Design (2020 Pre-Conference Workshop)
- Values in Information Architecture: The 8th Academics & Practitioners Roundtable at the 2020 Information Architecture Conference (2020 Pre-Conference Workshop)
Conference posters
- 7th Academics and Practitioners IA Roundtable and Make-a-Thon (2019)
- A Scenario Creation Tool for Ethical Design (Ethics & IA V2.0) (2019)