All the slides (and more) from IASummit 2014

Couldn’t make it to San Diego? Want to relive your favorite talk?

9 min readMar 28, 2014

The 2014 IA Summit was held March 26-30, 2014 in San Diego. Three years ago, at the 2011 conference, Martin Belam was nice enough to collect and curate all the slides from all the presenters, which was a tremendous resource in the weeks and months following the event.

This year, Martin was a keynote speaker, so I’ve attempted to take up the mantle and collect as many links to slide decks/blog posts/handouts/Twitter profiles relevant to the presentations as possible. Please ping me @creativenewman or comment here with any materials that I haven’t found yet.

Have a bulletpoints, sketchnotes, a Storify, or a blog post that you’ve created in response to a presentation? Send those my way, too! You can also get a flavor of the event from the photos and tweets at Seen.

Day One

Opening Keynote by Irene Au
Transcript on Medium
Notes by David Farkas
Sketchnotes by Melinda Miller
Sketchnotes by Nathan Rogers
Sketchnotes by Jason Alserman
Sketchnotes by Veronica Erb
Stories of Discovery: A responsive journey by Steve Fisher
Slides on Slideshare
Information Cartilage: Context, Intelligent Systems, and IA by Thomas Wendt
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by Veronica Erb
Becoming a Change Agent by Carrie Hane Dennison
Slides on Slideshare
Notes by Fred Beecher
Notes by David Farkas
Sketchnotes by Melinda Miller
Research in Awkward Places by Alison Meier
Notes by Brad Nunnally
Notes by David Farkas
Sketchnotes by Nathan Rogers
Web-scale IA using Linked Open Data by Mike Atherton
Slides on Slideshare
Notes by Fred Beecher
Sketchnotes by Melinda Miller
The New Black: Running the Small Agency by Hans Krueger, Jared Spool, Chris Baum, Andy Budd, Amy Cueva
Notes by David Farkas
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman
Sketchnotes by Sara Lin, Page 2, Page 3
Fidelity and the Art of Persuasion: How to Successfully Sell Your UX Vision by Jane Reinberg Guthrie
Slides on Speaker Deck
Sketchnotes by Sara Lin
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman
Modeling for Clarity by Joe Elmendorf
Slides on Slideshare
Speaker Notes
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman
Public Data for the People by Michele Tepper
It’s Not the Size of Your Data, It’s How You Use It by Pamela Pavliscak
Slides on Slideshare
Architecting a sustainable experience design team for long-term growth by Tim Caynes
Slides on Slideshare
Notes by Fred Beecher
Notes by David Farkas
Things I’ve Learned and Am Still Learning from Leading UX Designers by Russ Unger
Slides on Slideshare
Notes by Fred Beecher
Notes by David Farkas
Notes by Martin Belam
Designing for Emerging Technologies by Erik Dahl
Slides on Slideshare
Notes by Martin Belam
Responsive Information Architectures by Andy Fitzgerald
Slides on Slideshare
Notes by Brad Nunnally
Notes by David Farkas
Sketchnotes by Melinda Miller
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman
Making More UX Designers: Practical UX Apprenticeship by Fred Beecher
Slides on Slideshare
Notes by David Farkas
Data Sets You Free: Analytics for Content Strategy by Jonathon Colman
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by Veronia Erb
Sketchnotes by Melinda Miller
Physically Activated Design and Visualization by Justin Manor
The Architecture of Advocacy by Christina Wodtke
Slides on Slideshare
Notes by Fred Beecher
Notes by David Farkas
Sketchnotes by Sara Lin
The Ghosts of Information Architecture (Friday Evening Keynote) by Martin Belam
Games shared during presentation:
“Information Architect-O-Meter”
“How Much Are You Hated By Content Strategists?”
“Which Shape IA Are You?”
“2048: #IAS14 Edition”
Notes by Fred Beecher
Sketchnotes by Melinda Miller
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman

Day 2

Holistic UX: Designing Ubiquitous Multi-device Experiences by Christian Crumlish
Notes by Brad Nunnally
Notes by Fred Beecher
Language is Infrastructure by Andrew Hinton
Slides on Speaker Deck
Notes by Edwina Lui
The UX of Sales by Erin Malone, James Young
Sketchnotes by Melinda Miller, Page 2
Unicorn Institute by Jared Spool
Etsy’s Product Design Principles by Cap Watkins
Notes by Adrian Herritt
Sketchnotes by Melinda Miller
Sketchnotes by Sara Lin, Page 2
Give a hoot! Mapping (and caring for) the semantic environment by Jorge Arango
Slides with annotations
Notes by David Farkas
Notes by Brad Nunnally
Designing for Shades of Grey by Miles Rochford
Notes by Martin Belam
Sketchnotes by Nathan Rogers
What’s Happening With Design & User Research at Spotify by David Whittle
Video watched during session
Slowing Down the Machine: Interrupting Process for the Greater Good by Megan Schwarz, Brian Bono
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by Melinda Miller
Sketchnotes by Sara Lin, Page 2
Tools for Uncovering Arrangement and Meaning by Michael Adcock
Slides on Slideshare
Slides + Notes on Speaker Deck
Presentation Audio on SoundCloud
Designing for Villains by David Bloxsom, Donna Lichaw, Eduardo Ortiz, Erik Gibb, Aviva Rosenstein
Notes by David Farkas
ReframeIA + Teaching IA next steps by Keith Instone
Related blog post by Andrea Resmini
The Self-Aware Researcher by Veronica Erb
Slides on Speaker Deck
Speaker Notes
Notes by Brad Nunnally
Notes by David Farkas
Me, You and Them: Designing Interactions for Healthy Relationships by Fawn Ellis
Notes by David Farkas
Because McLuhan by Dan Klyn
Slides on OneDrive
Notes by Fred Beecher
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman
Growing your career without leaving your company by Lis Pardi
Slides on Slideshare
Notes by Fred Beecher
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman
Business Impact Management: How to Make Business out of Buttons by Ingrid Domingues, Jonas Söderström, Jon Karlsson
Sketchnotes by Melinda Miller
Twist your tools: Creative IA applications of online research by Lisa Fast
Presentation Materials
Sketchnotes by Veronica Erb
Design for the Network by Matthew Milan
Slides on Slideshare
Notes by Fred Beecher
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman
Lights! Camera! Interaction! Design Inspiration From Filmmaking by Adam Connor
Slides on Slideshare
Notes by David Farkas
Sketchnotes by Sara Lin
Sketchnotes by Sophie Hwang
Future Reading: New reading spaces and emerging patterns for Information Architects by Claudio Vandi, Grandin Donovan
Notes by Edwina Lui
Sketchnotes by Melinda Miller
UX without UI: A case study for adidas Mexico by Bibiana Nunes
Slides on Slideshare
Notes by Fred Beecher
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman
Sketchnotes by Veronica Erb
What’s your problem? by Tami Evnin
Slides on Slideshare
Notes by David Farkas
Information architecture and the materialities of the digital (Saturday Evening Keynote) by Paul Dourish
Notes by Fred Beecher
Notes by David Farkas
Sketchnotes by Nathan Rogers
Sketchnotes by Veronica Erb
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman
Sketchnotes by Melinda Miller

Day 3

Why the Mad Men are Mad at Us by Eric Reiss
Slides on Slideshare
From Paths to Sandboxes by Stephen P. Anderson
Slides on Slideshare
Notes by Fred Beecher
Sketchnotes by Nathan Rogers
Sketchnotes by Melinda Miller
Design as Product Strategy: Bringing design thinking to product management in order to create products people love by Jon Kolko
Slides (PDF, 2.5MB)
Sketchnotes by Sara Lin, Page 2
Sins of a UX Researcher by Kyle Soucy
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by Veronica Erb
Help or Hindrance: How instructions, assistance, and errors shape experiences by Abi Jones
References on VoiceAndGesture.com
Notes by Fred Beecher
Sketchnotes by Melinda Miller
Cyborg Design: Multimodal Interactions, Information, and Environments for Wearable Computing by Bennett King
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman
Body Language: The Hidden Language by Brad Ty Nunnally
Slides on Slideshare
Notes by David Farkas
Sketchnotes by Nathan Rogers
Search Pattern Adoption: Are We Making an Impact? by Lyle Kantrovich
Slides on Slideshare
Start Smarter with a Concept Diagram by Scott Kubie
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by Melinda Miller
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman
Sketchnotes by Veronica Erb
The Design Behind the Design Behind the Design by Jason Hobbs
Stakeholder Mapping by Gene Smith
Slides on Slideshare
Notes by Fred Beecher
Your Users Can’t Afford Bad Design by Aaron Irizarry, Matt Ventre
Notes by David Farkas
UX Debt: Creating Awareness and Acting on Missed Opportunities by Andrew J Wright
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by Sara Lin, Page 2
Thinking about Thinking and the Demands of the Post-digital World by Cassandra Moore
We’re Not Worthy: Understanding and Escaping Imposter Syndrome by Amy Silvers, Lori Widelitz-Cavallucci
Slides on Slideshare
Notes by Fred Beecher
Notes by David Farkas
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman
Closing Plenary by Peter Morville
Transcript on Medium
Slides on Slideshare
Notes by Fred Beecher
Notes by David Farkas
Sketchnotes by Nathan Rogers
Skethcnotes by Veronica Erb
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman
Response by Noriyo Asano

Workshops

Advanced Presentation Techniques: How to Talk to Stakeholders, Peers, and Clients by Jared Spool, Dan Willis
Sketchnotes by Veronica Erb
Teaching IA: A Roundtable Discussion by Jason Hobbs, Terence Fenn
Slides by Abby Covert on Slideshare
Slides by Thomas Wendt on Slideshare
Slides by Keith Instone on Slideshare
Slides by Craig MacDonald on Slideshare
Slides by Christina Wodtke
Slides by Dan Klyn on OneDrive
Sketchnotes by Veronica Erb
Taming Taxonomy: Tips & Tools Creating Structure with the User in Mind by Jessica DuVerneay and Alberta Soranzo
Slides on Slideshare

Recaps, Articles, Etc.

Photos

Posters

What will IA be in an Internet of Things? by Jason Alderman
Download PDF (4.2MB)

Prototyping Using Handmock by Concent, Inc.
View poster on Slideshare

Taxonomy: What is it Good For? by Andy Fitzgerald
Download PDF (0.1MB)

Low-carbon experience design by James Christie
Download PDF (1.2MB)

All processes resemble each other by Carl Collins
Download PDF (0.1MB)

From Market Insights to Design Strategy by Dolly Parikh
View poster on Slideshare

UX Discovery: …Time for That by Andrea Dulko
View poster

The Pagefold Predicament by Lis Pardi
View poster on Slideshare

Home Smart Home by Charlene McBride
View poster on Flickr

Using Network Diagrams to Visualize Card Sorts by Sean Fitzell and Kate Merlie
View poster

I Love It, I Hate It, I’m Too Lazy to Switch: The Human Experience of Digital Music Services by Rachael Price and Jin Ha Lee
Download PDF (0.7MB)