All your IA Summit slides are belong to us
by Martin Belam, 1 April 2011
If you couldn’t get to the IA Summit in Denver this year, or if you fancy reliving your favourite presentation, or flicking through the slides from some of the sessions you didn’t see, then here is a (probably futile) attempt to gather together the blog posts or linklogs or slides that went with each of the talks.
If you know a link to one of the presentations that I haven’t been able to find, then please leave a comment and I’ll add it in.
Day one
- “Design for the “Rudes”: The Value of Design Principles” by Rob Fay, Joanna Hunt - @bbuix
- “We Are All Content Strategists Now” by Karen McGrane
- “More than a metaphor: Making places with information” which featured “Architecture as a model” by Jorge Arango, “A few thoughts about architecture and IA practice” by Andrew Hinton, “More than a Metaphor” by Andrea Resmini
- “Creating a Navigation System...For Your Career!” by Shai Idelson
- “Letting Go of Perfection: Developing IA Agility” by Serena H. Rosenhan, Joanna Markel, Chris Farnum
- “The User Experience of Disruption” by Russ Unger, Dan Willis
- “Upping Your Game: Five Things IAs Need To Talk About More” by Leanna Gingras which also as a reading list
- “Create Successful Cross-Channel Experiences” by Samantha Starmer
- “Rethinking User Research for the Social Web” by Dana Chisnell
- “Interfaces Are Made of Words” by Carl Collins which also has an accompanying activity sheet.
- “UX Communities: Starting from the Beginning” by Matthew Solle, Martin Belam, Joe Sokohl, Eric Reiss - no slides, but there is a series of blog post discussions on the topic by Matthew and Martin.
- “Effect Mapping: A Better Way to Get Really Usable Results Out of IT Projects” by Jonas Söderström
- “The Stories We Construct” by Stephen P Anderson
- “Posting Our Hearts Out: Understanding Online Self-Disclosure for Better Designs” by Javier Velasco-Martin
- “Unmoderated Remote Usability Testing: Good or Evil?” by Kyle Soucy. Also available as a UX Matters essay, and comes with a resource sheet of remote usability testing tools.
- “The Most Valuable UX Person in the World” by Jared Spool. Yoni has put together a reading list “Coding for Design”
Day two
- “The Reluctant Design Strategist: The Story of a UX Team of 1.5 Failing Forward” by Megan Ellinger
- “Discussing Design: The Art of Critique” by Adam Connor, Aaron Irizarry
- “A Practical Guide to Measuring User Experience” by Richard Dalton
- “Lean UX: Getting Out of the Deliverables Business” by Jeff Gothelf. Also available as a Smashing Magazine essay
- “I'm Not Just Making This Up: The Value of Thinking Time in Experience Design” by Tim Caynes
- “We Love Change? Change is Scary!” by Johanna Kollmann
- “The User Experience Brief: The What and Why before the How” by John Yesko
- “I'm a UX Designer - and I'm an SEO: Working Together to Heal the Rift Between Customers and the Marketers Who Love Them” by Jonathon Colman, Erin Hawk - plus a resources list
- “Toilet Paper and Information Sharing: Designing Compelling Information Ecosystems” by Justin Davis
- “Increase The Size Of Your Package In Just Four Weeks: Four Steps To Successful E-Commerce” by Eric Reiss
- “Beyond Digital: What IAs Need to Know about Service Design” which featured “A Case in Public Transport” by Andrea Resmini
- “The Journey to 'Yes'” by Jeff Parks, Alla Zollers
- “DIY Mobile Usability Testing” by Belén Barros Pena, Bernard Tyers plus a video of them building their DIY rig with instructions
- “Numbers are Our Friends: Information Architects Make the Best Web Analysts” by Lynne Polischuik, Julie Strothman
- “Beyond User Research” by Louis Rosenfeld
Day three
- Pig-Faced Orcs: Design Lessons from Old-School Role-Playing Games” by James Reffell
- “Beyond the Polar Bear” by Mike Atherton, Michael Smethurst
- “From Flab to Fab! Design Secrets for Overweight Interfaces” by Kim Bieler
- “Content Strategy on a Shoestring Budget” by Carrie Hane Dennison
- “Discombobulation, Fire-Breathing Dragons and Wet Noodles: Creating Productive Workshops in Scary Situations” by Beth Koloski
- “On Why We Should NOT Focus On UX” by Koen Claes
- “On 'Shrink It and Pink It': Designing Experiences for Women” by Jessica Ivins
- “The fall and rise of user experience” by Cennydd Bowles. See “Sorry, no questions” for why there was no Q&A afterwards, and join in the debate on the essay version of the talk instead.
Workshops
- “Nailing it down - Detailed design to preserve the UX vision” by Joe Sokohl
- “Ubiquitous IA” by Peter Morville
- “Career Workshop” by Russ Unger & Amanda Schonfeld
- “Practicing What We Preach: designing usage centered deliverables” by Aviva Rosenstein
- “Creating an Agile UX Manifesto” by Ann McMeekin Carrier
Posters
- “Content Model to Page Design” by Atsushi Hasegawa
- “Participant Centric Card Sort Analysis” by Andrew Mayfield
- “UX Research in the Real World: Stories from Rwanda” by Veronica Erb
Notes and photos and blog posts
- “Cennydd Bowles predicts a rocky road ahead for UX at the Denver IA Summit by Martin Belam for Guardian.co.uk Developer blog
- “An Open Letter to Those Who Live in the Past (and Thoughts for Those Who Appreciate Future Possibilities)” by Thom Haller
- Notes from IA Summit 2011 by Jason Owen in Evernote
- IA Summit day 1 on 365 Days of Random
- IA Summit day 2 on 365 Days of Random
- IA Summit day 3 on 365 Days of Random
- “Looking Back at IA Summit 2011” by Aaron Irizarry
- Presenters build communities by Kit on the Slideshare blog
- “Content Strategy at the IA Summit” by Carrie Hane Dennison
- “Why go to a UX conference” by Robert Skrobe
- “IA Summit Kano: Great content is satisfying; Community is delightful” by Richard Dalton
- “IA Summit 2011 Wrap Up” by Chris Avore
- “My IA Summit recap, with TweetNote notes” by Leanna Gingrass
- “Impressions from the 2011 IA Summit - Part 1: Theme” by Shai Idelson
- “The IA Summit: joint custody” by Louis Rosenfeld
- Tibetan Tailor has published visual notes of the sessions by Nate Silver, Adam Conner & Aaron Irizarry, and Rob Fay & Joanna Hunt
- UX Magazine at the IA Summit in Denver
- Photos tagged ias11 on Flickr
And why the bad grammar in the title?
Way back in the steam-powered days of the internet, i.e. around about 2000, “All your base are belong to us” was an internet meme based on a bad translation of some text in the Japanese video game Zero Wing.
Just wanted to leave a big THANKS for compiling this list! It is especially helpful for people who could not attend this year.
Some interesting stuff there, but it'd be easier to browse (and perhaps more valuable to future searchers) if added to the Lanyrd listing for the conference; http://lanyrd.com/2011/iasummit/ Sadly, there don't seem to be any more slide decks linked to from that page yet, though.
Thanks for the suggestion Richard, I've added the URL to Lanyrd.
Thanks for compiling this. I've just uploaded my presentation "Posting our Hearts Out" to Slideshare.
Thanks for compiling! Numbers are our Friends: Why IAs Make the Best 'Web' Analysts is on slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/strottrot/numbers-are-our-friends-7512000
Martin, you sir, win an internet.
Two taxonomies and an itty bitty screen - designing for the Emergency Room
Poster is posted:
http://www.slideshare.net/ahaskvitz/haskvitz-poster2011
Hola,
The first one you list - Design for the RUDES, is an old link to an earlier presentation. The one you want is here: http://www.slideshare.net/robfay/design-for-the-rudes-the-value-of-design-principles-7549638
Thanks.
Tremendously helpful for IA/UX students beginning class tonight.
THOM