{"id":297,"date":"2006-10-10T10:08:27","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T09:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leapfrog.nl\/archives\/2006\/10\/10\/european-ias-are-three-years-behind-on-their-us-counterparts\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T21:36:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T19:36:37","slug":"european-ias-are-three-years-behind-on-their-us-counterparts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/10\/european-ias-are-three-years-behind-on-their-us-counterparts\/","title":{"rendered":"European IAs are three years behind on their US counterparts*"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warren Hutchinson thinks this year’s Euro IA<\/acronym> Summit was way behind on the US<\/acronym> big brother conference<\/a> in both content and form. I can’t confirm or deny this (as I’ve never been to the US summit) but I’d say any summit is better than none, and it’s clear we’re still building a practice.<\/p>\n

He also bemoans the prevalence of conservative, ‘little IA’ thinking and a passive consumerist attitude with the majority of conference goers. True as this may be, putting yourself on a pedestal looking down on those that have been less fortunate than you in their development and exposure to big IA (or EA<\/acronym>) thought is hardly the most productive path to take IMHO<\/acronym>. Also, Hutchinson implies he has a tighter bond to the US summit and in some ways seems to deny a relationship with the EU<\/acronym> design community, which I feel is a bit suspect and in some ways perhaps symptomatic of UK<\/acronym> design thought.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d rather see Hutchinson take up the challenge of being an example for European IAs, designers and whatnot, as he did with his great presentation on workshops<\/a> (or is that workshop on workshops?) and not slap his eager students in the face because they haven\u2019t yet gotten the point entirely.<\/p>\n

Just to be on the safe side: please take some of this criticism with a grain of salt. Lets have a healthy constructive discussion.<\/sub><\/p>\n

* As you can tell I don’t agree (completely) with this post’s title, which is inspired by one of the comments on Hutchinson’s post by Jonathan Mulvihill<\/a>.<\/sub><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Warren Hutchinson thinks this year’s Euro IA Summit was way behind on the US big brother conference in both content and form. I can’t confirm or deny this (as I’ve never been to the US summit) but I’d say any summit is better than none, and it’s clear we’re still building a practice. He also … Continue reading European IAs are three years behind on their US counterparts*<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[625],"tags":[224,14,53,233,13,54],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-euro-ia-summit-2006","tag-ia","tag-ux","tag-experience-design","tag-information-architecture","tag-user-experience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}