IA Summit 2005—Crossing Boundaries
Post-Summit Updates
- Links to session presentations are now posted with each session's description via the session title on the Session Descriptions page. To view the posters, visit the Posters page.
- Cities throughout the world are hosting Summit Reduxs to recap the conference and share insights. Go to the Summit Redux blog page.
Summit Overview
Information Architecture (IA) is critical to web development. It plays a key role in software, multimedia, and product design. The IA Summit is important for everyone who works with navigation, organization, and search systems that help people find and manage information.
This year's Summit crosses boundaries and reaches out to other disciplines to exchange ideas on IA theory and practice. Come to the IA Summit to learn, share, and explore!
Keynote Speakers
BJ Fogg
Author, Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change
What We Think and Do
Research and Design Director, Stanford University Persuasive Technology Lab
Andrew Dillon
Author, Designing Usable Electronic Text
Dean, School of Information, University of Texas
Who Should Participate
- IT professionals who design web and software solutions and select the technologies and staff to support them.
- Librarians, webmasters, and content owners responsible for creating taxonomies and information architectures.
- Project and business managers needing to understand the benefits and challenges of information architectures in electronic information spaces.
- Anyone concerned with the design of navigation, organization, labeling, and search systems that help people find and manage information more successfully.