Breaking Down Complexity with Object Oriented UX

We all know it — the messiest knots of complexity lie beneath the UI. Business rules, permissions, nuanced object relationships, and squishy domain concepts are rarely clarified with more wireframes. And many of our other go-to diagrams (cough cough sitemaps) don’t often scale to the level of interconnected complexity we are confronted with.

As information architects, we need better ways to expose, define, and align the building blocks of our systems. That’s where Object-Oriented UX comes in. In this hands-on, full-day workshop, you’ll learn the ORCA process: a collaborative, repeatable, actually fun method for turning abstract chaos into a clear, intuitive structure.

You’ll learn four collaborative frameworks that all link together into a meat-grinder of a complexity-wrangling process, untangling complexity at its root. This process brings the invisible into sharp focus, revealing the underlying bones of your product. Along the way, you’ll surface the showstopper questions before they become expensive problems, and create a shared language that gets everyone—IA, design, dev, content, and product—rowing in the same direction.

You’ll leave with an immediately-applicable skill set to lead your team through the thorniest of projects — with less rework, more confidence, and systems that actually make sense to humans.