While my notes are collecting dust on my hard drive, someone else finally got around to writing up a report of last year’s European IA Summit. As James Kalbach writes in his article on Boxes and Arrows:
“We should be intensely interested in documenting these summits… Does IA really want to deliver a wheelbarrow of PowerPoint slides in ten years as the body of its work?”
Our poster presentation at the Euro IA Summit was a lot of fun. We had some good spirited discussion on our concept of Landing Pages. If you’re interested, have a look at the poster here (A4 PDF, 420 KB), or have a look at the shot on Flickr…
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Here’s my notes from Andrew Dillon’s keynote at the Euro IA Summit:
Big IA has a future; little IA does not.
Geen IA vs. UX – niet jezelf definiëren aan de hand van wat je niet bent.
Data is stored, information is experienced.
Design to leverage natural tendencies. Dingen hoeven niet direct bruikbaar te zijn.
Web 2.0: van iets wat gemaakt is, naar iets wat je zelf maakt…
User: from recipient to participant, co-owner and co-designer.
User Human.
UX design – niet: this is how I like it.
Weg bewegen van craft-based werk, geen consistente kwaliteit, geen systematiek in werk, weinig vooruitgang, bedreigd door snelle veranderingen in omgeving.
Ambiguity has it’s merits. You don’t have to strictly define it (IA).
No more heroes, some people may even think Jakob Nielsen’s a liability…
Organisation, curation and interaction of information.
Curation is a problem.
The architectures are our theories.
Findability is the new usability – but where’s the architecture in that?
Beyond navigation: patterning, wrapping, anchoring, emergent structure.
‘Virus of the mind’; information breeds.
Cohill, 1991, information architecture & the design project – IA as a new kind of project manager.
Real design: respect experience – augment life.
Usability is a design value, like accessibility.
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Today, I’m off to Brussels for the first European IA Summit. The program looks interesting, and there’s plenty of Dutch IA’s going, so it should be fun. I’m also presenting a poster and am very curious about how people will react to it!
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This year the first European Information Architecture Summit will be held in Brussels, Belgium on October 15-16. I’ll be there to present a poster together with Almar van der Krogt on an interesting navigation concept we developed for a large marketing website. If you’re an IA, or are involved in the structuring of information for online media, then this is definitely the event for you!
Update: added the tag ‘Euro IA Summit 2005’
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