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2023 IA Conference

March 28, 2023

Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

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 an enterprise taxonomy model that meets the needs of your enterprise and the individual business units, systems, user profiles, and interfaces.
Discussion and activities about the impacts of a taxonomy project on technology, governance, workflows, marketing, analytics, search, compliance, and the interaction with master data management
Practical tips for providing stakeholders with resources to navigate internal tensions around implementation
Examples and case studies of large scale enterprise taxonomy projects.

Gary Carlson

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2023 IA Conference

Intermediate

No longer accepting registrations
as of March 5, 20230

Come learn how to define and apply Archetypes, a new method for modeling users that supports the design of resilient information structures by focusing people’s intent and the jobs they want to do. A resilient structure is one that understands and accommodates the forces present in its environment. In the digital environment there are many forces at play–business needs, market trends, implementation technology, and the nature of the information–and the most important force is the intentions of the end users.

This workshop will introduce you to archetypes and walk you through the process of creating and applying them. Example case studies will serve as practical examples of what works and what doesn’t.

Join us in this workshop to learn methods for defining bespoke Archetypes for resilient ecosystems, websites, and apps!

This workshop will introduce archetypes as a new model of users and give you the information, tools, and experience you need to try an archetypes user model on your next project.

Join us in this workshop to learn methods for defining bespoke Archetypes for resilient ecosystems, websites, and apps!

Grant Carmichael

Joe Elmendorf

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2023 IA Conference

March 29, 2023

Intermediate, Advanced

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 Platform.

This workshop adds two key tools to your toolbox:

5 methods to model and map complex, large-scale information environments
IA heuristics tailored to enterprise IA

These strategies will help you improve cross-channel and cross-system coherence, search and findability, knowledge management, change management, and governance in medium- to large-scale enterprises for all employees.

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2023 IA Conference

March 29, 2023

Beginner

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.

Jorge Arango

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2023 IA Conference

Beginner, Intermediate

No longer accepting registrations
as of March 13, 2023

Diagrams have been helping people for thousands of years across industries, fields and cultures. It seems like diagrams are everywhere if you are paying attention. But when were we taught to diagram? And were we ever taught how to know if a diagram is any good? For too many people, the answers are never and no.

In this half-day workshop you will learn the purpose, process and craft of diagramming with a core focus on useful starting points, words of advice and level-ups for your next diagram.

Students will be asked to bring a diagram to class so fellow students can critique them. We will be using a B.I.N.G.O card based on principles from the lecture material. Bringing diagrams from your past is not required but is VERY encouraged.

Abby Covert