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Lightning talks

Mapping the Edges of Our Discipline

IAC23

March 31, 2023

Join Noreen as she shares how being curious and exploring the edges of our discipline can help us stay resilient in times of uncertainty. As the job market shifts, it's natural to feel apprehensive, but by feeling our way to the places where IA connects with other disciplines, we can discover fresh ideas, emerging trends, and untapped opportunities. Noreen will map out a path to help you focus your curiosity…

Noreen Whysel
Noreen Whysel

Diagrams for Two Appetites

IAC23

March 31, 2023

Spaghetti Diagrams, Lasagna Models. As IAs we look at our projects and at the world through different levels of abstraction. When faced with complicated systems we can make sense of them by documenting the minutiae, or sometimes by simplifying things into tidy relationships. Join Mike for a fresh roll through the messy and organized ways we visualize things. Spoiler warning: it's okay to order spaghetti and lasagna.

Mike White
Mike White

How can we embed Information Architecture as part of normal product development? A Product Manager’s perspective.

IAC23

March 31, 2023

For Information Architecture to become embedded in the product development process, we must use the language of product: What user problems does IA solve and what are the commercial/organizational benefits of IA? The methods of IA can be explained later once you have buy-in. In this talk I will share ideas and approaches: A better way to explain IA to product people/stakeholdersShow the impact of IA through identifying the targeted…

Peter Harvey
Peter Harvey

The role of UX in bringing project to a higher level

IAC23

March 31, 2023

In this talk I would like to share with you a successful story about a project that made a difference in my career and made me a UX advocate. This project showed the value of UX and how using the right methods at the right time can bring a project to a higher level. One day, I overheard my manager talking about a tool called bridal configurator. By conducting a…

Serene Ahmad Abu Khafajah
Sirin Ahmad Abu Khafajah

The More Things Change: An Exhortation for Enterprise IA

IAC23

March 31, 2023

Information architecture is broken or missing in too many UX settings. Let's talk about fixing that, especially in the enterprise world. Let's dismantle the Dribbleization of design and focus on intentional architecture.

Joe Sokohl, man of European descent, wearing shocking blue-rimmed glasses, with graying mustache and goatee
Joe Sokohl
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