IA Summit 2016

A Broader Panorama

95 speakers

90 sessions

Workshops Day 1 Wednesday 4th May 2016

• 9:00am Practical Content Strategy

  presented by Michael J. Metts and Scott Kubie

• 9:00am How to Filter Information

  presented by Karl Fast

• 9:00am The Elements of Service Design

  presented by Eric Reiss

• 9:00am Designing Future-Friendly Content

  presented by Carrie Hane and Mike Atherton

• 9:00am Context Walk: Understanding User Context In the Real World

  presented by Andrew Hinton

• 1:30pm Meaning Modes and Design Structures to Facilitate Them

  presented by Marsha Haverty

• 1:30pm Building Relationships: Linked Data and Information Architecture

  presented by Duane Degler

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Workshops Day 2 Thursday 5th May 2016

• 9:00am Taxonomy & UX: Structuring Data to Drive Experiences

  presented by Dave

• 9:00am Intro to Information Architecture

  presented by Donna Spencer

• 9:00am Decoding Culture: Becoming Information Anthropologists

  presented by David Fiorito

• 9:00am Designing Successful Projects

  presented by Daniel Szuc

• 9:00am Social Math: Making Complex Data Meaningful to Users

  presented by Ashley Pulli and Victor Yocco

• 9:00am Reframe IA: The 4th Academics and Practitioners Roundtable

  presented by Sarah A. Rice, Bern Irizarry, Keith Instone, Stacy Surla and Andrea Resmini

• 1:30pm Found It! Increasing Satisfaction with IA and SEO

  presented by Marianne Sweeny

• 1:30pm Seeing the Trees Despite the Forest—Discerning Content Structure From a Blobby Website

  presented by Laura Creekmore

• 1:30pm Rewarding "Near Misses": Making Close Count For Your Users

  presented by David Hobbs

• 5:30pm First Timers' Orientation

• 6:00pm Opening Reception

• 8:00pm First Timers' Dinners

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Conference Day 3 Friday 6th May 2016

• 8:45am Welcome to Atlanta!

  presented by alberta soranzo, Daniel Newman and Dalia R Levine

• 9:00am Opening keynote

  presented by Lisa Welchman

• 9:45am Quickstart To Sketchnoting

  presented by Nathan Rogers, Zach Pousman and Christina Wodtke

• 9:45am Coffee break

• 10:15am Place in Space (AKA "How to Design A Concept Model")

  presented by Stephen Anderson

• 10:15am Architecture & IA: Expanding the Metaphor

  presented by Jessica DuVerneay

• 10:15am Design Is A Team Sport

  presented by Jared Spool

• 11:15am Constructing Meaning Is Bloody Work: Make Everyone a Winner in the Taxonomy Wars

  presented by Wendy A F G Stengel

• 11:15am Let’s Get Physical: Scaling UX Strategy for Spatial Interactions

  presented by Shiloh Barnat

• 11:15am Confessions of an Ex Unicorn

  presented by Rachel Daniel and Amanda Stockwell

• 12:00pm Lunch and Topic Tables

• 1:15pm The IA of Introspection

  presented by Robin

• 1:15pm Architecting for Simplicity and Meaning Amidst Information Chaos (Shopify Reports: A Case Study)

  presented by Kylea Parker and Virginia Start

• 1:15pm (Not) Designing for Ourselves: A Case Study from the U.S. Web Design Standards

  presented by Colin McArthur and Carolyn Dew

• 1:45pm Life and Death UX

  presented by Paige Templeton

• 1:45pm Crafting an Etsy Taxonomy

  presented by Jaime DeLanghe

• 1:45pm Remotely Agile? Effective Interaction with Distributed Agile Teams

  presented by Dorinne Hammons

• 2:15pm The Architecture of Teaching and Learning (ATL)

  presented by Peter Morville

• 2:15pm UX Karma: Designing For The People We Become

  presented by Lauren Colton

• 2:15pm The Ethics and Politics of Information Architecture - Shaping Society Through Structure and Control

  presented by Andrea Resmini

• 3:00pm Coffee break

• 3:30pm Introducing The Lab Notebook: A Tool for Managing a LEAN UX Process

  presented by Kerry Holeman and Julie Casanave

• 3:30pm Mind the Gap - Taxonomies, Tags and Trajectories at the BBC

  presented by danramsden

• 3:30pm User Memory Design: How to Design for Experiences That Stick

  presented by Curt Arledge

• 4:30pm Evening keynote

  presented by Cory Doctorow

• 5:15pm Happy Hour and Poster Night

  presented by Abby "The IA" Covert and James Christie

• 8:30pm Acoustic Jam

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Conference Day 4 Saturday 7th May 2016

• 6:30am Polar Bear Fun Run (5k and 10k)

  presented by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld

• 9:00am The 12 Qualities of Effective Design Teams

  presented by Peter Merholz

• 9:00am The Pop-out Effect: How to Improve Choice Through Information Architecture

  presented by Stefano Bussolon and Luca Rosati

• 9:00am Learning to Share with Powerful Work Presentations

  presented by Gail Swanson

• 9:45am Coffee break

• 10:15am The Inviting Dark: Thinking about Information Architecture In Physical Space

  presented by Jason Alderman

• 10:15am Content Types: The Glue Between Content Strategy, User Experience, and Design

  presented by Hilary Marsh

• 10:15am IA in Agile: You'll See the Forest Eventually

  presented by Hannah Grossman

• 11:15am Information Spaces in Virtual Reality

  presented by Becky Torbochkin

• 11:15am IA for Personalization: Five Steps Toward Building Thoughtful Targeted Experiences

  presented by Colin Eagan

• 11:15am Practical Techniques for Field Research

  presented by Brad Nunnally

• 12:00pm Lunch

• 12:45pm The Tenth Occasional Information Architecture Slam

  presented by Dorelle Rabinowitz, Christopher Chandler, Matthew Fetchko, lynn boyden and Eric Reiss

• 1:15pm Ontology Dojo: Learn How to Use Ontology to Define Your Information And Supercharge Your Deliverables

  presented by Ren Pope

• 1:15pm How to Talk to Clients, Stakeholders and Teams

  presented by Martina Schell and James O'Brien

• 1:15pm Crafting the Discovery Phase: First Steps in Effective IA Projects

  presented by Dan B.

• 2:45pm Afternoon Break

• 3:15pm Mission Impossible: Thriving & Succeeding in Long-term, Multi-year Projects

  presented by Coco Chalfant

• 3:15pm How Well Can Navigation Research with Different Design Artifacts Predict Final Site Performance?

  presented by David Juhlin

• 3:15pm People, Not Percentages: Research & Design For Cross-Channel Experiences

  presented by Stuart Maxwell

• 4:15pm Evening keynote

  presented by Léonie Watson

• 5:00pm Happy Hour

• 8:00pm Game Night

  presented by David Fiorito

• 8:30pm Karaoke

  presented by Kevin M. Hoffman

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Conference Day 5 Sunday 8th May 2016

• 9:00am How Do I Game Design? Understanding People Through Game Design

  presented by Dr(!) Jon Manning and Paris Buttfield-Addison

• 9:00am Information Architecture in the Age of Algorithms

  presented by Giles Colborne

• 9:00am The many minds of the maker: The programmer's mental model and the coding designer

  presented by Livia Labate

• 9:45am Coffee break

• 10:15am How to Control Your Project's Developers (Courtesy of a Lead Developer)

  presented by Stephen Hopper

• 10:15am Using Data to Inform IA & UX

  presented by Matthew Edgar

• 10:15am Architecting Apps in Meat Space

  presented by gretchen anderson

• 11:10am The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Language of Critique for Information Architecture

  presented by Stacy Surla

• 11:10am Extending IA Past Taxonomies - A Case Study of Debenhams Retail IA

  presented by Mags Hanley

• 11:10am The Information Architecture of World Information Architecture Day

  presented by dps

• 11:40am Why Design Isn't Just Lipstick On A Pig

  presented by Traci Lepore

• 11:40am The Territory of the Map: Cartography and The Problem of Information

  presented by joe sokohl

• 11:40am Adopting IA Heuristics and Iterative UX Reviews: A USPS.com Case Study

  presented by Jeffrey Ryan Pass

• 12:00pm Lunch

• 12:00pm IAS 17 Planning Roundtable

• 1:15pm #nobodyubersinthehood: Architecting for Inclusion in the Digital Service Economy

  presented by Michael Hardy

• 1:15pm Lands, Hubs, and Wienies: Placemaking Lessons From the Magic Kingdom

  presented by Jorge Arango

• 1:15pm Empathy Cannot Be Automated

  presented by Jenn Downs

• 2:15pm Closing Plenary

  presented by Jesse James Garrett

• 3:00pm Goodbye Atlanta!

  presented by alberta soranzo, Dalia R Levine and Daniel Newman

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