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If you’re keen to help shape the way that the user expe­ri­ences of the future are con­ceived and defined, join Andrew Hin­ton, Matthew Milan, Livia Labate, and yours truly in a full-day work­shop / sem­i­nar titled “Beyond Find­abil­ity: Refram­ing IA Prac­tice & Strat­egy for Tur­bu­lent Times” at the 2009 IA Sum­mit in Mem­phis.
We’ve got a lot of great mate­r­ial to share — and shape — on where this new[ish] dis­ci­pline is headed, from four com­ple­men­tary but dis­tinct pro­fes­sional per­spec­tives (dig­i­tal agency, in-house ser­vices group, man­age­ment, design con­sul­tancy), shared by lead­ing prac­ti­tion­ers.
Here’s a quick descrip­tion:
“Changes are hap­pen­ing fast in tech­nol­ogy, the econ­omy, and even the var­i­ous User Expe­ri­ence pro­fes­sions. In the midst of such tur­bu­lence, con­ven­tional Infor­ma­tion Archi­tec­ture can have trou­ble seem­ing fully rel­e­vant. Some may see it as a com­mod­ity, or a nar­row spe­cialty that has lit­tle to do with the game-changing emer­gence of social media, ubiq­ui­tous & mobile com­put­ing, and the rest.
This full-day work­shop will address such con­cerns with a boundary-pushing foray into IA craft and strat­egy. We’ll show how core IA skills are more rel­e­vant and strate­gi­cally impor­tant than ever, and we’ll explore how we can extend IA to its full poten­tial in 21^st cen­tury UX design.“
Read more about Beyond Find­abil­ity here. Reg­is­ter here.
See you in Memphis!