All the slides (and more) from the 2015 IA Summit
Couldn’t make it to Minneapolis for #IAS15? Want to relive your favorite talk? We’ve got you covered.
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6 min readMay 20, 2015
The 2015 Information Architecture Summit took place in Minneapolis from 22–26 April. We pulled together links to all the slides, posters, and notes that we could find, similar to last year. If we’re missing something, please comment directly on this post with a link or send it to us!
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Day One: Friday, April 24
- Opening Keynote by Jorge Arango
Transcript
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit - The Crossover Role: PM + IA + UX by Emily Witt
- Enterprise Taxonomy for FIFA by Adam Ungstad
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit - Puppies, Juggling, and Caring for Experiences by Richard Dalton
- Archaeology & IA: The Adventures of Information Jones by Margaret Alldredge, Andrew Schall
Slides on Slideshare - Recap of Language of Critique by Keith Instone, Andrea Resmini, Sarah Rice
- Wayfinding for the Mobile Web by Dennis Kardys
- Panel: The Secrets of Master UX Consultants by Lyle Kantrovich, Louis Rosenfeld, Dean Barker, Samantha Bailey
- What We Mean by Meaning: New Structural Properties of IA by Marsha Haverty
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit - DesignOps Skunkworks: Shoes for the Cobbler’s Children by Russ Unger
Slides on Slideshare - The Ninth Occasional Information Architecture Slam by Lynn Boyden, Chris Chandler, Matthew Fetchko, Dorelle Rabinowitz, Eric Reiss
- The Anatomy of a Content Model by Lacey Kruger
Slides on Slideshare - The Art and Science of the Pre-Attentive Variable by Debra Gelman
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit - Defining the Damn Data by Jen Matson
Slides and notes - IA in a Complex Business Context by Sarah Barrett
Slides and notes - Once You See It, You Can’t Unsee It: Tracing Information Ecologies by Rachael Hodder
Slides on Slideshare - The Politics of Navigation by Stuart Maxwell
- Learning from Users in their Natural Habitat by Sara Cambridge
Slides on Slideshare - Testing Taxonomies: Beyond Card Sorting by Alberta Soranzo and Dave Cooksey
Slides on Slideshare - You Are What You Eat: The IA of Food by Kamilla Kielbowska
- Being a Professional Novice by Frank Duran
Slides on Slideshare - Design Doing: Creating a Digital Practice by Stacy Surla
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit - The Power of Story for Understanding and Communicating by Christina Wodtke, Donna Lichaw, Lis Hubert
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman
Slides on Slideshare (from the longer workshop) - Is Design Metrically Opposed? by Jared Spool
Slides as a PDF file - Demystify Success for IAs & UXers by Gail Swanson
Slides on Slideshare - Desiring Ecologies: Meaning-Making in the Network Wilderness by Andy Fitzgerald
Slides and notes - Evening Keynote: New Fields and Feeled Effects (transcript) by Ted Nelson
Keynote on YouTube
Pre-recorded answers on YouTube
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit
Day Two: Saturday, April 25
- Managing the Politics of Content by Hilary Marsh
Slides on Slideshare - Atomizer: Microcontent and the Future of IA by Bram Wessel
Slides and notes - Applied Behavioral Economics for IA & UX by Robert Neal
- Survive the Long Haul: 6 Tips & Tricks to Keep Your Sanity for Multi-Year Projects by Coco Chalfant
- Architecting Reality by Kat King
Slides on Slideshare - The Battle for the Body Field by Jeff Eaton
Slides on Slideshare - What Do You Want to be When You Grow Up? by Kevin Cheng
Sketchnotes by Clovis Six
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit - Bridging Reality and Future Vision with Reality Maps by Malini Rao
- Pay It Forward: How To Mentor Your UX Co-Workers Without Them Realizing It by Naa Marteki Reed
- Architecting the news — The Guardian’s Container Model by Nick Haley
- Designing for Gendered Audiences by Jessica Ivins
- Swimming With the Sharks...Without Becoming One: Enterprise UX Politics by Amy Marquez
Slides on Slideshare - Structure and Metadata: Shortening the On-Ramp to Linked Data by Dalia Levine, Duane Degler
Slides and notes - Shaping Organizations to Deliver Great User Experiences by Peter Merholz
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit - Communication with Flexible Documentation by Jon Hadden
- Designing in Code: Getting Started with HTML Prototyping by Jason Wishard
Github - IA Wikipedia Edit-a-thon by Noreen Whysel
Slide deck tutorial and resources - Let’s Hear It For The Seams by Dan Willis, Livia Labate
- Context Walk: Learning How Context Works in the World Around Us by Andrew Hinton
- Giving the Right Amount of Shits: Combating Burnout by Marti Gukeisen, Megan Schwarz
Slides on Slideshare - Designing Webs: IA as a Creative Practice by Paul Rissen
Slides on Speakerdeck
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit - Important But Invisible: User Experience & the Aging Workforce by Michael Carvin
Slides on Slideshare - Mapping the Way Forward: The Importance of Visualization by Richard Ingram
Slides on Slideshare - Group Think: System Thinking, User Thinking, Design Thinking by Marianne Sweeny
Slides on Slideshare - Evening Keynote by Elizabeth Buchanan
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit
Day Three: Sunday, April 26
- Overcoming Impostor Syndrome: The Workshop by Amy Silvers, Lori Widelitz-Cavallucci
Slides on Slideshare - Stand (or Sit) and Deliver — Speaking Tips for Small Groups and Meetings by Adam Polansky
Slides on Slideshare - A Tale of Twin Cities Masters of IA with Karl Fast, Kristina Halvorson
- The Understanding Bee Masters of IA with Peter Morville, Abby Covert, Dan Klyn, and Marsha Haverty
Video recording
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit - The Digital Place You Love is Gone by Joe Sokohl
Slides on Slideshare - What is Past is Prologue with Christina Wodtke, Jesse James Garrett
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit - The IA is IN: Mentoring block by Priyanka Kakar
- Closing Keynote by Brenda Laurel
Workshops
- Practical Modeling: Making the Invisible Visible by Kaarin Hoff, Andrew Hinton, and Joe Elmendorf
Notes from the presenters
Posters
Linked Data Tagging in BBC News Online by Paul Rissen
Get Started with Sketchnoting by Kyra Friedell
Presenting for Impact by Gail Swanson
EIA Project Management Experience by Concent, Inc.
Using Visual Thinking to Illustrate a Program by Jeroen Grit
Watching Dramas, Finding Community by Grace G. Lau
Recaps, Articles, Etc.
- IA Summit 2015: A First-Timer’s Experience by Andy Vitale
- In Remembrance of Elizabeth by Kevin Hoffman
- Coming Home: Quick Impressions of IA Summit 2015 by Dan Brown
- ICYMI — IA Summit 2015 Recap by Diane Rasmussen Pennington
- 5 Takeaways from IA Summit 2015 by Laura Sweltz
- Durability of Information Spaces, Part 2: Lessons from Watches and Cars by Weston Thompson
- Norm Sun’s pairing map
- IA Summit Recap by Elizabeth McDonald
