In a digital world that’s flooded with content, it’s important to adopt a grounded approach for content strategy and management. Content design is an essential place to begin your journey to content maturity. In this workshop, Meghan Casey clarifies the role of content design for websites and empowers you with a practical framework and useful tools gleaned from her book, The Content Strategy Toolkit. After this session, you’ll go back to work confident…

Have an information problem that seems too overwhelming to organize? Are the taxonomies and controlled vocabularies not providing the richness of meaning and understanding you need to wrangle your information environment? Adopting an ontological mindset might help you push through and solve your hardest IA problems. In this fun, informal, practitioner-focused workshop, Washington DC ontologist Ren Pope and Chicago area strategist / IA Jessica DuVerneay will present and facilitate a…

Well-mannered information architects can be found hidden away in a room constructing vocabularies, making up content models and doing whatever user analysis that gets assigned to them. This workshop is not for well-mannered information architects. It’s for the information architect who wants to get out and into the organization; to engage “upstream” with sponsors and stakeholders and fellow “downstream” contributors like designers and programmers. Come to this workshop with a project in mind…

A solid information architecture is essential for outstanding digital products and services. IA is what makes it possible for people to find and understand things within an information environment. Whether you are new to the field or looking for a refresher, this day-long workshop will take you on a tour of the most important elements that go into creating and managing an information architecture that serves both the goals of…

Over the past several years it’s become increasingly clear that the IA community needs to move beyond being a practice and figure out how to become a discipline. To explore what this entails, and begin to craft a way forward, we’ve convened a series of Academics’ and Practitioners’ roundtables at IA Summits past. In the 6th year of this community event we will focus on the topic of Ethics. As…