IA Summit 12: Clutter is King
I really enjoyed Clutter is King: The story of filing, piling and beyond and how people really get things done by Paris Buttfield-Addison and Jon Manning. It was an insightful look at the way that people organically organize information in the real world,…
IA Summit 12: Filtered and Refined
After the Better Cross Channel Experiences talk the next 20 minute talk for that session was Filtered & Refined: Interfaces for Distilling Data by Erin Jo Richey. This talk was all about the way that information is organized and presented…
IA Summit 12: Empower Yourself. Negotiate for the User.
I really enjoyed Empower Yourself. Negotiate for the User by Carol Smith. For a 20 minute session I think she did a great job touching on the primary principles of negotiating and how to negotiate for the benefit of both…
IA Summit 12: Crowdsourced Unmoderated Usability Testing
I choose to attend a couple of the 20 minute dual session blocks to see what I thought about the smaller sessions. I have to admin I was impressed with the amount of information people were able to fit in…
IA Summit 12: Collaging
The last presentation I attended on day 1 of the summit was Collaging: Getting Answers to the Questions You Don’t Know to Ask by Kyle Soucy. I very much enjoyed this presentation as this is not a technique I had…
IA Summit 12: Orchestrate Against Atomism
Orchestrate Against Atomism is a presentation that was done by Patrick Quattlebaum. I was intrigued by the title and decided to go when I read from the guide that the talk was about challenges with cross channel experiences. He starts by talking…
IA Summit 12: Rhythm & Flow
The first regular session I enjoyed at the summit this year was Rhythm & Flow by Peter Stahl. It was a very interesting talk that made me think about the rhythm of user interactions from a repetitive nature, and the flow that…
IA Summit 12: Making Sense of the Data
The second and final workshop I attended at the IA Summit this year was Making Sense of the Data by Dana Chisnell. This was a interactive workshop reviewing ways to gather and synthesize customer feedback. This was a 1/2 day workshop…
IA Summit 12: Designing for Cross Channel Experiences
For my first workshop at this years summit, I chose Peter Morville and Samantha Starmer’s Cross Channel Experiences. And for the first time this year, I will be attempting to blog about the highlights of presentations I enjoy using the…