Tangible — First of Five IA Summit 2007 Themes
I’ll be posting a top 5 of the themes I noticed during the past 2007 IA Summit in Las Vegas. It’s a little late maybe, but hopefully still offers some value. Here are the 5 themes. My thoughts on the first one (tangible) are below the list:
- Tangible (this post)
- Social
- Web of data
- Strategy
- Interface design
1. Tangible
The IA community is making a strange dance around the topic of design for physical spaces and objects. On the one hand IAs seem reluctant to move away from the web, on the other hand they seem very curious about what value they can bring to the table when designing buildings, appliances, etc.
The opening keynote was delivered by Joshua Prince-Ramus, of REX (notes by Rob Fay and Jennifer Keach). He made some interesting points about how ‘real’ architects are struggling with including informational concerns in their practice. Michele Tepper, a designer at Frog talked us through the creation of a specialized communications device for day traders where industrial design, interaction design and information architecture went hand in hand.
More to come!
Related posts:
- Web of Data — Third of Five IA Summit 2007 Themes
- Social — Second of Five IA Summit 2007 Themes
- Strategy — Fourth of Five IA Summit 2007 Themes
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