Reminder: World IA Day mini-conference this Saturday
jason hobbs
Hi again,
This is a last reminder that World IA Day will take place in Johannesburg at the University of Johannesburg this Saturday, the 11th of February.
Some more detail on the content you can expect:
KEY NOTE:
Andrea Resmini is the co-author of 'Pervasive Information Architecture', president of the Information Architecture Institute and founder of the Journal of IA. In his keynote he will share a variety of personal and professional insights that have contributed to his broad knowledge in the field of cross-channel IA.
Speakers:
Jason Hobbs (Human Experience Design) will start the day with a brief introduction to information architecture design and will show how it fits into the stew-of-disciplines that contribute to the user experience. He'll share what it is, where it comes from and why it matters.
Rian van der Merwe (after several years in Silicon Valley is now Head of Product and User Experience at Kalahari.com) will be offering a case study of how he applied user journeys to consider key paths through the kalahari.com website to optimise the user experience, prioritise design changes and manage a design process that has fundamentally changed Kalahari over the past year, incrementally and into the future.
Vlad Nedelcu has been responsible for the digital presence of the Times across web and mobile for the past four years. He will be sharing his experience of redesigning The Times and the role that information architecture design played in that process. The joy, the tears and the glory.
William Saunders has worked as a product and interaction designer both locally and abroad and is currently working with Flow Interactive in Cape Town. He will be sharing his use of information architecture design to improve the MXit user experience.
Rey Uys as been pioneering the institutionalization of UX in Standard Bank for the past 6 or more years and brings a wealth of knowledge from the realities of design in enterprise spaces. Rey's talk will cover why IA is important when developing large scale multi-channel, user experience frameworks for organizations.
Free stuff:
We have an opportunity to select one title from the O'reilly catalogue for free digital distribution to all conference attendees. Here's a shortlist I created (on the day we can vote for which one people would like)
Wrobleski on designing for mobile first
Gamification by design
Storytelling for user experience
Remote research
Effective UI
Prototyping
Designing social interfaces
Card sorting
Design is the problem
Web form design
Mental models
Design accessible websites
Designing web navigation
Information architecture for the WWW (3rd edition)
Information dashboard design
The art of interactive design
Details:
Registration is between 8.30 and 9.30 at the Main Auditorium of FADA (Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture) on the Bunting Road Campus of the University of Johannesburg. The event will continue through till about 4.30 with drinks and social stuff at 44 Stanley thereafter.
The event costs R450 (R350 for IA Institute members and R100 for students) and tickets can be bought online or at the day on the day.
Book online now! www.webtickets.co.za/event.aspx?itemid=4631093
Please forward to anyone you think may be interested. See you there,
Jason