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 - Neue IA Schnittstellen

Neuartige Benutzungs Schnittstellen für öffentliche
und persönliche Informationsräume, Hans-Christian
Jetter, Mensch-Computer-Interaktion, Uni Konstanz

Folgende Themen werden angesprochen:
- Web 2.0, Web Services und Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)
- Informationsräume als Herausforderung
- Schnittstellen für öffentliche und persönliche Informationsräume
- Beispiele aus der Forschungsarbeit und Ideen

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00:00 Minute - Intro
00:45 Minute - Präsentation
35:55 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 - Analogies software engineering and movie making (English)

Analogies between software engineering and movie making:
where does the interaction designer fit in?, J. Vandermeulen, Namahn, Brüssel

Content:
- How does the designer fit in the software engineering process
- Vision: Movie making as an analogy for interaction designers
- Examples from the movie industrie (iterative development)
- Similarities: Movie actors and user centered design

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00:00 Minute - Intro
01:20 Minute - Präsentation
40:15 Minute - Discussion

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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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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

Women in IA - Stacy Surla

In this episode about "Women in the Field of Information Architecture", I was happy to talk with Stacy Surla at the IA Summit in Las Vegas, after she spoke in a panel discussion about "IA in Second Life".
Stacy isn't just the Treasurer on the Board of the IA Institute, she's also a force behind some important initiatives, such as the Local Groups initiative. We talked about Stacy's IA background, her IA Institute role, her IA conference speeches and many other topics, including some very interesting ideas about ambient findability in virtual worlds like Second Life.

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01:07 Minute - Stacy's IA Bio and background
04:32 Minute - Her role in the IA Institute
10:20 Minute - Stacy's conference speeches

Speech recordings - Steven Pemperton

Steven Pemberton - Closing Keynote

- His speech about XHTML, XForms:

speech_recording_steven_pemberton.mp3

EURO IA 2006 - Speech Recordings - Eric Reiss

Eric Reiss - Seven Trends in IA (Highly recommended)
-> Presentation(view this parallel to the Audio) Reiss_trends_in_ia_berlin_2006.pdf

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01:55 Minute - New IA Trends in Europe - coming from the users (compared to USA)
04:35 Minute - Websites have become part of the business plan
04:33 Minute - Trend #1 - Now we're going to make them part of the business
07:25 Minute - Customer Relation Management
08:04 Minute - Trend #2 - Websites have become more focused
11:58 Minute - Trend #3 - Websites are now truly multimedia
13:42 Minute - Trend #4 - Sitemaps are dying
16:38 Minute - Trend #5a - Customization is dead
17:38 Minute - Trend #5b - Two exceptions - Personalization lives
20:15 Minute - Trend #6 - Site search is  maturing
21:30 Minute - Trend #7 - IA is not always part of the job title

Eric Reiss wrote the following book:

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 Eric Reiss

Eris Reiss - Information Architect from US and Denmark

The European IA szene had a great time at the EURO IA conference 2006 in Berlin. And one man who's responsible, with his team of country embassadors, for the great success is Eric Reiss.
Eric is a great supporter of the Euro IA community which is strongly growing within the last years. My name is Wolf and it was an honore for me that I had a chance to talk to him. Let's hear what he says...

Podcast of this Interview - 33:31 minutes

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Eric Reiss wrote the following book:

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 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 with Thomas Vander Wal

Interview with Information Architect Thomas Vander Val

In this new episode you hear an interview with Thomas Vander Val, also from the IA Summit in Vancouver. Thomas was holding an interesting speech about “Tagging” and new trends in information architecture. At the end of the Summit I had a chance to talk to Thomas. Here it is…

Podcast of this Interview - 44:16 minutes

ia_voice_interview_thomas_vander_wal.mp3

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 Louis Rosenfeld

Interview with Louis Rosenfeld - IA Author, publisher and one father of IA

The upcoming episode is another interview from the IA Summit in Vancouver. This time I’m talking with Louis Rosenfeld, one father of Information Architecture. Lou was talking here on a summit track about the subject: “IA: not just for the web anymore”. He is holding up Seminars for Corporations about the Content Silos and is working as a publisher. Let’s listen to Lou’s ideas right here …

Podcast of this Interview - 43:08 minutes

ia_voice_interview_louis_rosenfeld.mp3

Quick Jump: Questions in this Interview (select time on your audio player)
00:58 minute - What's your motivation being at the summit?
02:02 minute - Is there something specific that attracts you this field?
03:52 minute - What do you see as your IA mission?
05:10 minute - What part does IA play in your daily routine?
09:00 minute - IA in Business: Do IAs have to learn more business language?
11:20 minute - How to convince top management about the value of IA?
12:50 minute - IA new field - what if the client want's a semantic network?
15:45 minute - Are there leverages for IAs in increating semantic networks?
18:48 minute - Disolving content silos - how to deal with corporate strategies?
22:15 minute - Would you also do seminars on content silos in Europe?
22:55 minute - IA in Europe - what would your advice be for bigger corporations?
26:23 minute - IA in Healthcare: Where's the benefit for the healthcare sector?
32:25 minute - Considering target audiences in healthcare - ?
34:02 minute - Should corporations increase implementations of IA processes?
35:00 minute - Focus a little more allso on the I instead of only on the T?
36:35 minute - IA Trends - where is IA heading worldwide?

Further Information on Louis Rosenfeld

• Author of the Polarbear Book:
• Lou's Blog: Bloug
• Enterprise IA seminar
• Publishing at: rosenfeldmedia

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 Peter Boersma

Interview with the Information Architect Peter Boersma

This episode is an interview with Peter Boersma, also at the IA Summit. Peter is an important Information Architect in the Netherlands. He strongly supports the IA community there and created some IA deliverables already which communicate the field of Information Architecture to the   Business World quite well. Listen to his thoughts right here in the interview…

Podcast of this Interview - 19:08 minutes

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

01:01 minunte - main reasons for being at the IA Summit?
01:49 minunte - Can you tell us something about yourself as an IA?
03:27 minunte - How do you define IA for yourself?
04:05 minunte - Experience Designer sounds interesting as a job title?
04:30 minunte - How do you sell IA to a potential client?
05:25 minunte - How can IA support real business workflow?
06:45 minunte - In which context is IA very strong/less relevant?
08:22 minunte - Business strategies and selling?
08:53 minunte - Comparison of US and Europe?
10:58 minunte - How can the Europeans catch up with the US?
12:08 minunte - Where's the benefit for the healthcare in IA?
13:37 minunte - How can Intranets of Healthcare companies be optimised with IA?
14:55 minunte - What methods shouldn't be missing in a professional IA project?
16:35 minunte - In your opinion, where is IA heading - especially in Europe?

Further Information on Peter Boersma

• Peter's Blog: BEEP

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