Our theme is meant to inspire everyone in the community—even those who aren’t presenting or volunteering—to bring their best ideas to the table. 2010 IA Summit theme music generously provided by Bumper Tunes. Day 1 Presentations Why keep it to yourself? This year marks the 11th annual Information Architecture Summit. MORE >>

Improving Conferences - Ideas & the Year Round Conference - Engaged Learning , February 6, 2009 WH Says: “…Open up the pool of presenters beyond the same 10-20 names I see at every e-learning conference … More voices would be a good thing and shows strength (and depth) in our industry.&#. Check out her entire presentation. MORE >>

At the end these are presented to the senior manager, who must make a decision on the spot whether to proceed. Use scenarios. roll of drums, death by Powerpoint, and perhaps an appearance by the CEO, then everyone files back to their desks, deeply inspired by the bold vision they have just been presented, and already forgotten. MORE >>

We have to do a lot more work on understanding concepts of identity and intent before we could instrument such services – and at present, nearly all that work is being done by companies with Dependent business models (this is not necessarily a bad thing, but it's a thing). Let's take that last bike scenario and play it out in the "real world." MORE >>

Then I will present how practices within User Centred Design (UCD) can mitigate the inherent risks of Agile and how these may be integrated within Agile development approaches. But that’s not a particularly common scenario. When the exciting opportunity to work in a post-bubble dot.com startup arose, I jumped to take it. Wahey! MORE >>