IA Summit 2007, March 22-26 at the Flamingo Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

IA Summit 2007 Conference Program

Saturday 24 March

  Laughlin Reno Virginia II
8:30 – 10:00 am Opening Keynote: The lost art of productively losing control - Joshua Prince-Ramus
10:00 am Morning tea
10:30 – 11:15 am The web that wasn't - Alex Wright Using search analytics to diagnose what's ailing your IA - Louis Rosenfeld, Rich Wiggins Everything old is new again: IA and RIA -- you know more than you think you do - Adam Polansky
11:15 Break
11:30 – 12:15 am Information architecture and ethical design - Olly Wright Data driven design: Using Web analytics to improve information architectures - Andrea Wiggins The Living Design Document and ION: Documenting RIAs - Kevin Silver, Chris Rivard
12:15 Lunch
1:45 – 2:30 pm The brave new world: Usability challenges of Web 2.0 - Jared Spool IA for rich interaction: Tools and techniques from the trenches - Anthony Hempell, Adrian Chong
2:30 Break
2:45 – 3:30 pm 2007 IA slam: The workshop with a winner - Lynn Boyden, Chris Chandler, Matthew Fetchko, Eric Reiss Intelligent inter(RE)action: An argument for a data-driven approach to UI design - Garrick Schmitt, Marisa Gallagher Best practices for form design - Luke Wroblewski
3:30 Afternoon tea
4:00 – 4:45 pm The conversation gets interesting: Creating the adaptive interface - Stephen Anderson How does CMS and portal software *really* work? - Tony Byrne, Theresa Regli
4:45 Break
5:00 – 5:45 pm Core+Paths - A design framework for findability - Are Halland, Mona Halland Enriching audiences and organizations with clear and useful content - Thom Haller
5:45 – 7:45 pm Posters & reception

Sunday 25 March

  Virginia II Mesquite Laughlin II
9:00 – 9:45 am WebPatterns: design patterns in web site architecture and User Interaction - John Allsopp Mobile information architecture: designing experiences for the mobile web - Christian Crumlish My grandmother the information architect: The IA of everyday life - Hallie Wilfert
9:45 Morning tea
10:15 – 11:00 am How the advertising industry thinks - Eric Reiss Rich mapping and soft systems: new tools for creating conceptual models - Gene Smith, Matthew Milan Communicating design: an astonishingly close look at what makes IA documentation work - Dan Brown
11:00 Break
11:15 – 12:15 pm Where does IA fit in the design process? - Peter Boersma, Larisa Warnke, Peter Merholz, Livia Labate, Leisa Reichelt, Josh Seiden Real information architecture – new mighty deeds - Margaret Hanley, Lisa Chan, Tom Coates, Matt Biddulph IA in Second Life - Stacy Merrill Surla, Lori Bell, Andrew Hinton, Beth Kanter, Peter Allison, Josh Knauer
12:15 Lunch
1:45 – 2:30 pm Search engine optimization and IA: the beginnings of a beautiful friendship - Marianne Sweeny Maximum value IA: create a larger impact on the business - Austin Govella FaceTag: integrating bottom-up and top-down classification in a social tagging system - Emanuele Quintarelli, Andrea Resmini, Luca Rosati
2:30 Break
2:45 – 3:30 pm Tuning up site search - Chris Farnum Finding Innovation in the five hundred pound gorilla - Kevin Cheng, Tom Wailes Architectures of participation: what Communities of Practice can mean for IA - Andrew Hinton
3:30 Afternoon tea
4:00 – 4:45 pm A Delphi approach to card sorting - Celeste Lyn Paul Enterprise IA methodologies: starting two steps earlier - James Robertson @toread and Cool: tagging for time, task and emotion - Margaret Kipp
4:45 Break
5:00 – 5:45 pm Peer (or team) design reviews -- how to give 'em and take 'em - Dorelle Rabinowitz, Lucas Pettinati Backcasting: or how I learned to stop predicting and help my clients - Matthew Milan, Sam Ladner Prediction markets: an introduction - Alex Kirkland

Monday 26 March

  Virginia II Mesquite El Dorado Ballroom
8:30 – 9:15 am Eye tracking and the relationship between visual design and visceral reactions in credibility judgments - David Robins, Jason Holmes, Heather Bryan Designing accessible navigation - Derek Featherstone Annals of experience: hacking it alone or the importance of being earnest or being mercenary - Jason Hobbs
9:15 Break
9:30 – 10:15 am Online product development in the financial services industry; can it be done? - Michelle Watson Interaction design style - Christopher Fahey When a public administration met its citizens: changing perspective, creating new tools - Cristina Lavazza, Andrea Fiacchi
10:15 Morning tea
10:45 – 11:30 am Information architecture meets industrial design: Working collaboratively across disciplines - Michele Tepper Project touchstones: how to bridge competing viewpoints and build vision, consensus, and innovation - Jess McMullin Communal computing and shared spaces of usage: a study of Internet Cafes in developing contexts - Jason Hobbs
11:30 Break
11:45 – 12:45 pm Start-up case studies: how five of us started our own businesses - Victor Lombardi, Lane Becker, Frank Ramirez, Lou Rosenfeld, Gene Smith, Christina Wodtke The Grand Challenges in Information Architecture Research - Don Turnbull, Karl Fast, Grant Campbell Lessons from failure: Or how IAs learn to stop worrying and love the bombs - Christian Crumlish, Peter Jones, Lorelei Brown, Joe Lamantia
12:45 Lunch
2:00 – 2:45 pm How to manage a user experience team (without losing your mind) - Katrina Alcorn Utilizing ritual in the design of information spaces for the cognitively impaired - Grant D. Campbell Admin interfaces: the unsexy side of information architecture - Margaret Hanley
2:45 Afternoon tea
3:00 – 4:00 pm Closing plenary - Rashmi Sinha
4:00 – 5:00 pm 5-minute madness - Various

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