IA Summit Recordings

If you would like to listen to the the Summit sessions, I have recorded a total of 20 presentations, including the IA Institute leadership seminar, and both keynotes. You can download the mp3s from livlab.com.

If you want to blog about this, please don't link directly to the mp3s' URLs, files will be moved to a different server soon.

Notes from Business and Design BOF?

Does anyone have their notes available of the Business and Design Birds of a Feather session on Sunday?

I was presenting at the time and couldn't attend. Any action points, initiatives, mailinglists, shared resources, etc. that I should know of?

Academic CMS Implemetation Poster

My poster is available in PDF

Innovative CMS Implementation in an Academic Library: The Transition from Static to Dynamic Pages on the Middlebury College Library Web Site

BJ Fogg Talk Question

In BJ Fogg's plenary, he showed slides of a device that tracks your fitness and the associated website. I was in the way back, and lost my notebook, so was wondering if anyone out there has the name of the device/website that he referred to.

StUX - integrating IA deliverables in a web application development methodology

In time, this will appear on the regular IA Summit website, but for now a PDF version of the slides (1.73MB) can be found on my blog:

StUX - integrating IA deliverables in a software development methodology

Feedback is welcome, and I'll be happy to explain elements if requested. Just not in the next week, because I am going on a (well-deserved, thank you) 1-week snowboard holiday.

EZSort

Someone at the conference asked me about EZSort - IBM's software to evaluate card sorting results. (I forget who asked, so I am posting here.)

It is not longer available - sorry. Donna has more info here - http://www.maadmob.net/donna/blog/archives/000598.html

I.A. Slam 2005

We had another great Slam this year, with about 45 participants and one winning team. Congratulations to Team Orange (names do not correspond to the photo, sorry!): Matthew Milan, Matt Leacock, Chris Farnum (not pictured), Mike Lee, Jess McMullin, Tony Byrne, Prentiss Riddle, and Sacha Jerabek for their winning entry, "It's OK to Indulge!"

Thanks to Mike Lee for the amazing photos. Erin Malone also posted some wonderful photos of the IA Slam to the flickr photo blog.

This year we asked the teams to provide an information architecture to facilitate a merger situation: the big box value-conscious retailer Bal*mart had purchased the legendary service-oriented apparel retailer Fordstrom, and was looking to leverage their existing supplier agreements and customer loyalty to monetize the seamless integration of customer experience and merchandise value across multiple channels. (Is that enough bizspeak for you, Dave?)

I'd like to join the other members of the IA Slam production team (Eric Reiss, Matthew Fetchko, and Chris Chandler) in thanking all of you who participated this year. What we get out of the IA Slam is directly related to what you get out of it, and we're grateful that your energy and enthusiasm continue to inspire us to greater heights (or depths?)

We've already begun considering ideas for next year's proposal, and we'd welcome any feedback you'd like to send us. You can post it here, for everyone's viewing and response, or you can send it directly to us at lynnboyden (at) gmail.com. We can't guarantee we'll incorporate your suggestions, but we'll certainly read them, and almost certainly argue about them.

Thanks to everyone, and congratulations again to Team Orange!

Dan Brown's Posters

I received some nice comments on my posters and several people asked for copies. You can download PDFs from my site. Thanks for a great Summit!

Why Amazon is not enough

For those that are interested in my presentation, including the in-depth speaker notes, you can now download it. Thanks to everyone who came and 'got it' -- and especially to everyone who hung around during and afterwards to chat. Thomas Vander Wal is talking about starting up list to discuss this, so keep in touch!

Summit session summary

Well, sessions are finished and only the keynote and five-minute madness are left. Here's a summary of some of my favourites:

• Most fun: The IA Slam
• Most personally interesting: Grant Campbell - IA and Alzheimer's disease
• Most energetic: Dan Willis - Evangelism 101
• Most practical: Yahoo! team - Implementing a pattern library
• Most honest: Lorelei Brown: 10 Giant Mistakes
• Most forward thinking: Brett Lider - Why Amazon is not enough
• Freakiest (in a nice way): Clifton Evans - Experience Cards

presentation for breaking down UX ...

I put my presentation on my blog, w/ a brief clarification. -- dave

Who's blogging @ IA Summit?

Here's a list of blog coverage. Feel free to suggest other urls!

http://www.brukaropplevingar.com/
http://eleganthack.com/blog
http://iaslash.org/
http://livlab.com/
http://louisrosenfeld.com/
http://www.poorbuthappy.com/ease/
http://synapticburn.com/
http://thecommunityengine.com

Help Boxes and Arrows Cover the Summit

We want to have full coverage by having summaries of every session of this year's summit. Unfortunately we only have som many staff and with the addition of the extra day and track, we are still in need of folks to cover sessions.

If you attended or plan to attend the following sessions and have notes that you wouldn't mind turning into a paragraph or two of summary - we would love to publish you.

Session Summaries needed:
SATURDAY:
Thinking Navigation on Vanguard.com
Feceted Classification in the Government of Canada
The Confidence Game: The Influence of IA on User's Confidence
Assessment of Information Architecture on the Canadian Architecture Collections
Putting Possibility Thinking into Action
The Faceted Interface
Building on User Testing
IA for the Personal Info Cloud
Internationalizations: BOF
Information Objects
Faceted Browsing: BOF

SUNDAY
The Process of Curriculum Development for IA
IA and the Small Screen
IA for Mobile Devices and the Mobile Internet
Select Country: The Art of the Global Gateway
Creating the Experience
Everyday Life through the Eyes of the IA
IA and Alzheimer's Disease
Traversing the Corporate Web
STUX - Integrating IA Deliverables in a Web Application Development Methodology
Understanding Interaction Design
Content Management: BOF

MONDAY:
Working with CMS's - Process, Architecture and Design
Information Visualization
Inspire Designers, Persuade Stakeholders: The twin Goals of Customer Research
Persuasive Taxonomies that Promote the Enterprise Goals
New Perspectives on Interaction
Experience Cards
Making the most of Controlled Vocabularies in Search Interfaces
Byeond the Page
Why Amazon is Not Enough
Applying IA to Community
The Growing Pains of a Controlled Vocabulary

If you are interested in providing a review / summary for a session (or more) please contact erin@boxesandarrows.com - or find me in the breaks to let me know you are interested. Summaries are needed within 2 weeks.
thanks from the Editors

Quick notes on folksonomies

Short recap of the folksonomy session available here.

Contolled Vocabs/UI Presentation Handouts

The handouts for the session Making the Most of Controlled Vocabularies in Search Interfaces didn't make it into the binder. If you'd like to see said handout, you can
a) pickup a copy at registration
b) pickup a copy at the presentation
c) download the .doc file at:
http://home.comcast.net/~crfarnum/farnumhandout.doc (538kb).

You can also download the presentation itself:
http://home.comcast.net/~crfarnum/farnum-controlled_vocab_UI.ppt (2mb).

Hope to see you there! Monday, 9:30am