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.
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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:
This workshop has been a staple of the IA Conference for the past three years. Now, it's been wholly restructured for effective remote instruction.
The online workshop consists of three components:
Lectures consist of our parts:
This new structure maximizes learning by making the most of our time together and makes it easier for distributed teams with busy schedules to participate.
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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.
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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 your projects and learn how to create change through design by uncovering relevant relationships beyond what is on the surface.
Hear from and share with colleagues barriers, opportunities, and ideas for activating change.
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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:
The session will be recorded and made available to registered attendees.
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