My Voice and the IA Summit
I’ve been thinking about the experience I had chairing the Information Architecture Summit. The event has been key to me throughout my career. I got involved in Septemeber of 2008 because I was called to help Samantha Bailey with the 2009 conference. She needed to know that her in process work chairing the event was going to be left … Read more
Women Speaking at the Information Architecture Summit
Over the past two years I’ve been involved in the Information Architecture Summit programming. This is an event sponsored by the American Society for the Information Age (ASISI&T). The event occurs April 7-11th in Phoenix, AZ. In honor of Ada Lovelace Day I wanted to thank the women that will be speaking at the event. The willingness of … Read more
The Gender of a Web Site Footer?
I never thought about it before, but I guess in the process of anthropomorphizing, anything can be imbued with gender. Yesterday on Twitter – a couple of Information Architects stated their opinion on the topic.
Almost There
I’ve had a second job for awhile. It’s a volunteer job. I’m on year two of co-chairing the IA Summit. We almost have the program ready this year. It’s been a long road but I think we’ve pulled together a great event that people are going to get value from. Working at my second job … Read more
Conference Trip -Twitter as Diary
This is the stream of tweets starting when I left Chicago for the conference. I thought it would be fun to make a blog post to capture the stream of consciousness that captured my IDEA 2009 experience. It was the first IDEA I have been able to attend since its inception a few years ago. … Read more
Sharing the Wireframe Wealth
A new blog to share UX deliverables launched recently. I became aware of it through a Twitter re-tweet. I think this is a really useful idea. I’m a big supporter of sharing, I think it is the only way to help us evolve and advance our practice. The value IA/UX designers bring is not about … Read more
Social Media is a useful term
“Language is a virus from outer space.” -William S. Burroughs We evolve our language to allow us to communicate with each other. As there has been a great deal of change brought on because of the Internet, we have needed many new terms to describe this change. These terms have helped us to frame larger … Read more
Off To Canada
I’m flying away to Vancouver, Canada today. I’m heading out to attend the 7th Information Architecture Summit. I’ve made it to this conference for 5 of the 7 and it’s been a big part of my career as an Information Architect. I’ve learned, seen, and evolved over that time. I’ve been doing this IA thing … Read more
Developers should NOT, I repeat NOT develop user experiences
Don’t get me wrong, some of my best friends are amazing techies. They build code that makes things function in ways I could never imagine (on the back end) However, they should not ever design user experiences. The brain of a developer works in a very different manner. They don’t necessarily think about the user … Read more
What I Am
I work in a field that thinks of itself as new. There are constantly debates going on about what we call ourselves, the people who try to make cyberspace easy to use, a good experience, a positive interaction. I rarely follow these debates as they are inherently navel gazing and I am fairly loathe to … Read more
