IA Konferenz 2007 - Schlusspräsentation

Schlusspräsentation - Value Lab: Prototyp einer physischen Informationsarchitektur, Jan Halatsch, Chair for Information Architecture ETH Zürich

Folgende Themen werden angesprochen:
- Problem: Expertengruppen müssen gemeinsam in kürzeren Zeitabständen Lösungen entwickeln
- Die Verortung des Menschen
- Vom Himmel zum Cyberspace
- Informationsverortung
- Technologie für IA
- Fallbeispiel VW AutoUni
- Value Lab

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00:00 Minute - Intro
01:25 Minute - Präsentation
36:35 Minute - Diskussion

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IA Konferenz 2007 - UX, Design & Innovation (English)

"user experience, design thinking, and innovation" Jess McMullin, nForm User Experience, Canada

Content:
- Innovation comes from intersections
- Empathy, Insight, Synthesis, Framing, Experiental Problem Solving
- User Centered Design - Value Centered Design - Business Centered Design
- Deliverables that define problems together - Becoming a Peer
- 6 principles

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00:00 Minute - Intro
01:15 Minute - Präsentation
36:55 Minute - Discussion

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IA Konferenz 2007 - Tagging and Folksonomies (English)

Bottom-up Tagging Can Get You to the Top- Tagging and Folksonomies provide a rich foundation for understanding how people think..., Thomas Vander Wal, InfoCloud Solutions, USA

Content:
- The backgrounds of Tagging and social web
- Understanding Folksonomies
- How to build and maintain social systems
- How information architects use this knowledge to ease their work

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00:00 Minute - Intro
01:10 Minute - Präsentation
57:10 Minute - Discussion

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IA Konferenz 2007 - IA für Audio

Informationsarchitektur für Audio-Inhalte
Jens Jacobsen, Content Crew GmbH, München

Folgende Themen werden angesprochen:
- Fachliche Inhalte verstärkt als Audio-Content
- Probleme bei der Strukturierung von Audio Inhalten
- Lösungs-Methoden

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00:00 Minute - Intro
01:50 Minute - Präsentation
38:55 Minute - Diskussion

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IA Konferenz 2007 - Search & Browse (English)

Integrating Search and Browse
James Kalbach, LexisNexis, Hamburg

Content:
- Traditional classification schemes
- A tagging system must also be navigable
- Key reasons why people are tagging
- Strategies for effective navigations

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00:00 Minute - Intro
01:35 Minute - Präsentation
28:25 Minute - Diskussion

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IA Konferenz 2007 - Kontrolliertes Vokabular

Mustern, Prüfen, Abchecken: Kontrolliertes Vokabular
im World Wide Web, Jan Jursa, Berlin

Angesprochene Themen:
- Allgemeine Beschreibung eines kontrollierten Vokabulars
- Sinn und Zweck anhand aktueller Beispiele aus dem WWW
- Zukunftszenarien und mögliche Use Cases

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00:00 Minute - Intro
01:15 Minute - Präsentation
48:00 Minute - Diskussion

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IA Konferenz 2007 - IA-Methoden/-Lösungen

IA-Methoden - Die effektive Unterstützung des zielgerichteten Projekt-Prozesses, um optimale Lösungen
für Informationssysteme zu entwickeln
Wolf H. Noeding, Institut für Informationsarchitektur (IIA)

Angesprochene Themen:
- Informationssysteme im Unternehmenskontext
- Typische Informationsarchitektur-Projekte
- Einsatz von IA-Lösungsmethoden im Projektprozess
- IA in der Spezifikation

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00:00 Minute - Intro
01:15 Minute - Präsentation
44:55 Minute - Diskussion

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IA/UX in Europe - Namahn, Joannes Vandermeulen

Joannes Vandermeulen is founder and head of Business development of the Namahn Agency in Brussels. Recently I was happy to be invited to a very interesting UCD Master Class Workshop at Namahns' where participants learn about UCD as a discipline, the UCD process, specifications and the ROI.
After the class we had one of the most interesting talkes with Joannes as we talked about his ideas, the workflows in his agency and the user centered design process. We discussed these following topics with Joannes - be free to listen to him right here:

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01:15 - Namahn as a UCD Agency
08:45 - Joannes Vandermeulen and his background
12:55 - The UCD Workshops
22:15 - The UCD Workflow Poster
25:10 - Communication Challenges of UCD

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Note: Make sure to take a look at the favourite Solutions Poster, which explains the User Centered Design Process of Namahn in   a perfect way!

Women in IA - Indi Young

Many IAs and others that are responsible for information systems worldwide try to develop application strategies - with more or less success. In this interview, we talk about a great IA and UX method of doing this very efficiently. It was developed by Indi Young, who is also one of the founders of Adaptive Path, a renowned IA and User Experience group in San Francisco. After attending her seminar during the PreCon of the IA Summit 2007, where visitors learned how to create a Mental Model (during the teamwork that needs to take place between IAs and their clients), I had the chance to interview her.
One of the things I really like about her is her great ability to describe complex things in an understandable way, using metaphors such as "the hallway test" to help communicate methods like the Mental Model to the business world.
Indi is currently writing a book on creating Mental Models and she has a blog at Rosenfeld Media. Does this grab your attention? Then let's listen to the interview.

 

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01:10 Minute - The beginning of Adaptive Path and Indi's amazing IA background
13:25 Minute - Indi explains the idea and development of Mental Models
35:22 Minute - A quick look with Indi into the future of IA

IA E-Learning - Faceted Classification 2 of 4

IA E-Learning - Faceted Classification Part 2 of 4

Welcome back to the IA E-Learning about faceted classifications. This part is based on the second chapter of "How to create a faceted classification" from William Denton's paper. The paper is read by Stephen again and intersting questions about this IA method are being discussed between Wolf and Jan in the following interview:

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00:40 Minute - Sample faceted  classifications
10:10 Minute - Interview Wolf and Jan
24:00 Minute - Spiteri's simplified model for facet analysis
30:10 Minute - Interview Wolf and Jan

IA E-Learning - Faceted Classification 1 of 4

IA E-Learning - Faceted Classification Part 1 of 4

Beginning with this first "Faceted Classification" episode in four parts we start a new series of IA Voice E-Learning podcasts.
This E-Learning,read by Stephen Köver, is largely based on a paper by William Denton entitled "How to make a faceted classification and put it on the web". At various points in the reading Wolf from the IA Institute is interviewing Jan Jursa, who has translated the paper into German for the IA Institute translation initiative.

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01:02 Minute - Introduction Faceted Classification
06:35 Minute - Interview Wolf and Jan
17:45 Minute - When to make a Faceted Classification
22:47 Minute - Interview Wolf and Jan
28:25 Minute - Dish detergent example
31:13 Minute - Interview Wolf and Jan

Speech recordings - Jared Folkmann

Jared Folkmann - Speech about Customer Experience Framework

- His speech:
speech_recording_jared_folkmann.mp3
- In the conference programme

EURO IA 2006 - Keynote Speech Recordings - Peter Morville

Peter Morville - Keynote Speech (Highly recommended)
-> Presentation-Ambient Findability (view this parallel to the Audio)

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00:40 Minute - Intro Eric Reiss (Eric has some fun with the Austrailians)
04:48 Minute - Start Speech Peter Morville (Ambient Findability)

Interview with Are Halland

Are Halland - Information Architect from Norway

"We all need to blog" was one message from Are during his speech at the first european IA conference, the EURO IA 2005. What he ment to say to the european Information Architects was that we all need to speak out in a clear, strong voice.  Also there is a strong need to communicate, network and to work in projects together.

One year later, at the second EURO IA 2006, I had a chance to talk to Are in the Lobby of the Maritime conference hotel. He gave me some interesting answers on my questions about the IA situation in his country, how he thinks about IA in Europe and where he see's the nexts upcoming IA trends. Among these he thinks for example that Topic Maps will become more important in the future. Let's hear what else he says...

Podcast of this Interview - 25:41 minutes

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Interview with Tomy Lorsch

Tomy Lorsch - Information Architect from Spain

Here's a well known european IA Voice from Spain. It's Tomy Lorsch who I also met at the EURO IA conference in Berlin. You can basically meet Tomy at any IA conference in the world. Let's listen to him right here...

Podcast of this Interview - 18:47 minutes

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Interview with Jacco Nieuwland

Jacco Nieuwland - Information Architect from Netherlands/Holland

At the EURO IA in Berlin I also had the pleasure to talk to Jacco Nieuwland who's an Information Architect from the Netherlands. Jacco and I had a quick talk right at his booth during the poster session. What he introduced me to was Swipr, a very interesting IA tool or better be said IA deliverable which he and his company user intelligence developed to communicate their concepts with their clients. It sounds very interesting since it merges flow charts and wireframes.

I have to admit there was a little too much background noise and I hope you excuse this.

Podcast of this Interview - 14:13 minutes

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Interview with Stig Anders

Stig Anders - Information Architect from Denmark

Stig Anders is a well known Information Architect and active in the IA Society since a long time. It's always interesting to hear form his european point of view, how he think's the profession of IA is developing. On the other hand as an IA consultant he has convincing thoughts about communicating the value of IA to his clients. At the beginning of our talk he told me how he grew into the this exiting business and also gave me his answers on the next trends of IA. Let's hear this interview with Stig Anders...

Podcast of this Interview - 31:02 minutes

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Interview Christina Wodtke and Harry Max

Your’re now listening to a new episode (from IA Voice) – it’s an interview with Christina Wodtke and Harry Max. We had a interesting talk down in the restaurant from the conference hotel of the IA Summit. And some answers were even answered by Christina’s baby which was also part of the interview as you will hear. Let’s hear all of it…

Podcast of this Interview - 34:19 minutes

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Christina Wodtke wrote the following book:

 

Interview with MAYA

Interview with the Information Designers Aradna Goel and Paul Gould

In this episode you listen to an interview with Aradna Goel and Paul Gould from Maya. The two of them presented some outstanding projects which have a lot to do with the future of IA that Peter Morville calls the merging of the digital and the physical world. Listen to some of their ideas right here in the interview…

(Note: I'm sorry, at some points my questions are way too long
[*] = better skip my too long questioning)

Podcast of this Interview - 40:26 minutes

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Quick Jump: Questions in this Interview (select time on your audio player)
01:03 minute - What are your main reasons for being at the IA summit?
03:26 minute - How do you define yourself - IAs?
05:42 minute - "IA brings in the layer of logic..."
06:14 minute - IA title is not necessary in order to be one
08:04 minute - [*] ...Talking about the great MAYA deliverables/ case study
09:30 minute - [*] ...Going into User Experience
10:10 minute - Talking user classification and information levels
14:12 minute - Understanding the users and getting clients to that thinking
17:11 minute - Where's the leverage to tell the client the right way?
18:40 minute - When asking clients about customers...
19:48 minute - Does it also have to do with your philosophy at MAYA?
23:17 minute - Great benefit in looking at something from different views
23:56 minute - Talking about healthcare project examples
27:42 minute - Comparing IT infrastructure in a hospital with the physical
28:40 minute - where IA fits really in the picture...
31:28 minute - Question on a interesting new way of persona deliverable
35:00 minute - Where do you see IA in the future?

Further Information on the MAYA projects and the case study mention during the interview:

• View the in-depth case study
• Slides in PowerPoint (25MB)
• Slides in PDF (12MB)
• Slides and Notes in PDF (7MB - smaller imagery)

Interview with Jesse James Garrett

Interview with Jesse James Garrett - IA Author and one inventor of AJAX

Please enjoy the upcoming interview with Jesse James Garrett at the IA Summit. Jesse is the famous author of the IA book “The elements of User Experience“, a founder of Adaptive Path and he created the definition of AJAX.
It took me about three days to get him for this interview. But finally he gave some quite interesting answers. - Here they are …

Podcast of this Interview - 28:36 minutes

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Quick Jump: Questions in this Interview (select time on your audio player)

00:52 minute - main reasons for being at the IA Summit?
01:39 minute - something specific that attracts you to IA?
03:28 minute - How do you define IA for yourself?
05:15 minute - So IA is bridging also the digital and the physical?
05:05 minute - How important is bottom-up information architecture?
07:46 minute - so do innovations in KM needs bottom-up IA?
08:39 minute - What are your experiences with buying in?
10:00 minute - Where does IA have strong leverage?
12:15 minute - Companies which to create semantic networks?
13:56 minute - Context Europe- advice for bigger corporations about IA?
15:40 minute - Where's the benefit for the healthcare sector in IA?
17:37 minute - Considering target audiences in Healthcare?
19:22 minute - Some explantions about the methods in JJG's famous book?
24:57 minute - In your opinion, where is IA heading?

Further Information on Jesse James Garrett:

• A founder of Adaptive Path
• His book: The Elements of User Experience

Interview with Geoff Froh

Interview with the Information Architect Geoff Froh

Please enjoy the upcoming interview with Geoff Froh. Geoff is an IA and Tech Director of a large Archive Digital Video and a master student in the University of Washington in the Information school.
I met Geoff at the IA Summit In a very interesting preconference seminar with the title “  Writing Business Requirements for Information Architects”. Let’s hear Geoff …

Podcast of this Interview - 18:36 minutes

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Questions in this Interview (select time on your audio player)
00:52 minute - Main reasons for being at the IA Summit?
01:20 minute - Since when working as an Information Architect?
02:26 minute - Something specific that attracts you to this field?
02:45 minute - How to sell IA to a potential client?
03:40 minute - Do IAs have to learn more business language?
04:30 minute - In which context do you see IA?
05:40 minute - Strong leverage of IA(analysis, strategic, conceptional)?
06:30 minute - IA in US and Europe?
08:57 minute - IA - where's the benefit for the healthcare sector?
10:32 minute - IA in Healthcare Knowledge Management Applications?
12:48 minute - Should corporations increase IA processes and methodologies?
14:12 minute - What methods shouldn't be missing in an IA project?
15:50 minute - In your opinion, where is IA heading?
17:05 minute - Any new challenges?

Interview with Dr David Weinberger

Interview with the Author and Information Philosoph Dr. David Weinberger

In this episode – I have an interview with Dr. David Weinberger who was holding the keynote speech at the IA Summit 2006 about some new ways of thinking in Information Architecture. He was also holding a speach at the Ars Electronica with the title “When things aren’t What They Are“.
We talked about them here in the interview. And despite he claims that he doesn't see himself as an IA he has

- 27:24 minutes

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Questions in this Interview (select time on your audio player)
00:55 minute - Reasons for being at the IA Summit?
02:10 minute - What do you see as your basic "IA"mission?
03:55 minute - ...Why we organise in hierarchical trees...
05:53 minute - Are we witnessing the dissolving of hierarchies?
07:22 minute - Is information defined in a new philisophic way now?
14:00 minute - What would you tell companies to create semantic networks..?
14:28 minute - What would you tell a client that doesn't understand tagging?
15:35 minute - Can tagging creat individual taxinomies?
17:37 minute - Tag sreams and tag clouds?
19:40 minute - IA in Healthcare Business?
20:42 minute - ...how I would sneek into tagging system (knowlede management)
23:06 minute - Where is IA heading in your opinion?

Further Information on Dr David Weinberger

• Blog of David Weinberger
• The New Book: Everything is miscellaneous
• Holding the Keyword of the IA summit 2006
• Ars electronica 2005 speach(listen also to the podcast there): “When things Aren’t What They Are"