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Room A
Description
The first generation of IAs are still out there, many of us now in leadership roles, often on product teams, or coaching up-and-coming professionals. In this panel, three veterans will reflect on what happens once you’ve “made it” and whether it’s possible to find purposeful satisfying stable work without an overhanging sense that just one more raise, promotion, or opportunity will finally get us “there.”
About the speakers
Christian Crumlish has a decade’s experience leading product teams, with several decades of UX success behind that. He is currently product lead for COVID-19 features at the Office of Digital Innovation of the state of California, responsible for California’s pandemic website. Last year he built a product team at PathCheck Foundation, a volunteer open-source nonprofit privacy-first pandemic solution platform for COVID-19, now focusing on vaccine distribution. He consults on product and UX leadership at Design in Product, where he also hosts a community that explores the overlap between UX design and product management.
He is also a mentor at Code for America and StartX, and a fellow in the Rosenfeld Media Experts network. Christian earned an AB at Princeton in philosophy, where he graduated sine laude.
Formerly, he was head of product at 7 Cups, winner of the 2016 Stanford Medicine X Prize for health systems design and a 2019 World Economic Forum Pioneer. He has also co-chaired the monthly BayCHI program, was a director of product at CloudOn, was director of messaging products for AOL, was the last curator of the Yahoo design pattern library, and served two terms as a director of the late lamented Information Architecture Institute.
He is the author of the bestselling The Internet for Busy People (McGraw-Hill) and The Power of Many (Wiley), and co-author of Designing Social Interfaces (O’Reilly). Christian lives in Palo Alto with his wife, Briggs Nisbet, and an ever-growing collection of ukuleles.
I am a Director of Product Management for content and taxonomy services at a B2B CRM SaaS Fortune 500 company. Previous to going back in-house, I worked close to 20 years as a consultant helping clients in cross-functional teams build innovative products in fast-paced environments and achieve measurable results.
My goal with every project is to invest in the people I’m working with and act as a bridge between groups, both to facilitate communication within teams and to provide strategic solutions, not only for the project at hand, but also for the business at large. I’m a strong believer in participating in community to learn, grow, and share what I’ve learned. I’ve been involved with previous ASIST-IA Summits, ACM, and helped found the IA Institute and Boxes and Arrows to further the practice and discipline of Information Architecture.
Mags Hanley is a career and information architect. She helps Designers work out the next stage of their careers are by using the tools of their trade – analysis, research, and synthesis. She helps senior designers develop into leaders, and provides the scaffold and tools for design leaders to be effective in their jobs.
Mags lives in Melbourne Australia – the coffee capital of the world – but prefers tea! She has lived across the world in the US and UK working in organisations as diverse as Argus Associates, the BBC and JB Hi-Fi.