All the slides (and more) from the 2016 IA Summit
The 2016 Information Architecture Summit was held in Atlanta, George from May 4–8. We’ve curated links to session slides and notes, as well as posters from the poster session. Dive in to review your favorite session or check out any you missed.
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Day 1 — Friday, May 6th
- Opening Keynote — Lisa Welchman
Preview
Sketchnotes by Alesha Arp
Sketchnotes by Florence - Quickstart to Sketchnoting — Christina Wodtke, Zach Pousman and Nathan Rogers
- Architecture & IA: Expanding the Metaphor — Jessica Duverneay
Slides on Slideshare - Place in Space (AKA “How to Design A Concept Model”) — Stephen P. Anderson
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman
Sketchnotes by Christina Wodtke - Design Is A Team Sport — Jared Spool
Slides on Dropbox
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit
Sketchnotes by Nathan Rogers - Constructing Meaning Is Bloody Work: Make Everyone a Winner in the Taxonomy Wars — Wendy Stengel
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by Nathan Rogers
Sketchnotes by Florence - Let’s Get Physical: Scaling UX Strategy for Spatial Interactions — Shiloh Barnat
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by Mia Gant
Sketchnotes by Michelle Chin - Confessions of an Ex Unicorn — Amanda Stockwell, Rachel Daniel
- (Not) Designing for Ourselves: A Case Study from the U.S. Web Design Standards — Carolyn Dew, Colin MacArthur
Sketchnotes by John James - Architecting for simplicity and meaning amidst information chaos (Shopify reports: a case study) — Virginia Start, Kylea Parker
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit - The IA of Introspection — Robin Weis
Slides on Slideshare - Crafting an Etsy Taxonomy: Classifying the Unique — Jaime Delanghe
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit - Life and Death UX — Paige Templeton
Slides on Slideshare - Remotely Agile? Effective Interaction with Distributed Agile Teams — Dorinne Hammons
Slides on Google Docs - The Ethics and Politics of Information Architecture — Shaping Society Through Structure and Control — Andrea Resmini
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit - UX Karma: Designing For The People We Become — Lauren Colton
Slides on Slideshare - The Architecture of Teaching and Learning (ATL) — Peter Morville
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by Mia Gant
Sketchnotes by Alesha Arp
Sketchnotes by Michelle Chin
Sketchnotes by Christina Wodtke - Mind the Gap — Taxonomies, Tags and Trajectories at the BBC — Dan Ramsden
Slides on Slideshare
Speaker’s notes at DanRamsden.com
Trajectories booklet
Sketchnotes by John James - User Memory Design: How to Design for Experiences That Stick — Curt Arledge
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman - Introducing The Lab Notebook: A Tool for Managing a LEAN UX Process — Julie Casanave, Kerry Holeman
Slides on Slideshare - Friday Evening Keynote — Cory Doctorow
Sketchnotes by Christina Wodtke
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit
Sketchnotes by Florence
Day 2 — Sunday, May 7th
- The Pop-out Effect: How to Improve Choice Through Information Architecture — Luca Rosati, Stefano Bussolon
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by John James
Sketchnotes by Stacy Surla - The 12 Qualities of Effective Design Teams — Peter Merholz
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by Tim Ritzema
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit - Learning to Share with Powerful Work Presentations — Gail Swanson
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by Alesha Arp - IA in Agile: You’ll See the Forest Eventually — Hannah Grossman
Sketchnotes by Alesha Arp
Sketchnotes by Tim Ritzema
Sketchnotes by John James - The Inviting Dark: Thinking About Information Architecture In Physical Space — Jason Alderman
Slides (PDF)
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit
Sketchnotes by Jessi Queen - Content Types: The Glue Between Content Strategy, User Experience, and Design — Hilary Marsh
Slides on Slideshare - IA for Personalization: Five Steps Toward Building Thoughtful Targeted Experiences — Colin Eagan
Slides on Slideshare
A List Apart article
Sketchnotes by @cestlynn
Sketchnotes by John James
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit - Information Spaces in Virtual Reality — Rebecca Torbochkin
Slides on Speakerdeck
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman - Practical Techniques for Field Research — Brad Nunnally
- The Tenth Occasional Information Architecture Slam — Chris Chandler, Dorelle Rabinowitz, Lynn Boyden, Matthew Fetchko, Eric Reiss
- Ontology Dojo: Learn How to Use Ontology to Define Your Information And Supercharge Your Deliverables — Ren Pope
Slides at Slideshare
Sketchnotes by John James
Sketchnotes by Stacy Surla - Crafting the Discovery Phase: First Steps in Effective IA Projects — Dan Brown
Slides on Slideshare
Discovery Activities Matrix
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit - How to Talk to Clients, Stakeholders and Teams — Martina Hodges-Schell, James O’Brien
Session worksheet - Mission Impossible: Thriving & Succeeding in Long-term, Multi-year Projects — Coco Chalfant
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman - How Well Can Navigation Research with Different Design Artifacts Predict Final Site Performance? — David Juhlin
Slides (PDF) - People, Not Percentages: Research & Design For Cross-Channel Experiences — Stuart Maxwell
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by John James
Sketchnotes by Jessi Queen
Sketchnotes by Mia Gant
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit
Sketchnotes by Stacy Surla - Saturday Evening Keynote — Léonie Watson
Slides on Github
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman
Day 3 — Sunday, May 9th
- How Do I Game Design? — Paris Buttfield-Addison, Jon Manning
Slides on Speaker Deck
Referenced materials
Sketchnotes by Mia Gant - Information Architecture in the Age of Algorithms — Giles Colborne
- The Many Minds of the Maker: The Programmer’s Mental Model and the Coding Designer — Livia Labate
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman - Architecting Apps in Meat Space — Gretchen Anderson
Slides on gretchenanderson.com
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman
Sketchnotes by Nathan Rogers - Using Data to Inform IA & UX — Matthew Edgar
Slides on Slideshare
Session worksheet
Sketchnotes by Tim Ritzema - How to Control Your Project’s Developers (Courtesy of a Lead Developer) — Stephen Hopper
- Extending IA Past Taxonomies — A Case Study of Debenhams Retail IA — Margaret Hanley
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Language of Critique for Information Architecture — Stacy Surla
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by Mia Gant
Sketchnotes by John James - The Information Architecture of World Information Architecture Day — David Peter Simon
- Adopting IA Heuristics and Iterative UX Reviews: A USPS.com Case Study — Jeffrey Ryan Pass
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by Mia Gant - Why Design Isn’t Just Lipstick On A Pig — Traci Lepore
Slides on Slideshare - The Territory of the Map: Cartography and The Problem of Information — Joe Sokohl
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit - Lands, Hubs, and Wienies: Placemaking Lessons From the Magic Kingdom — Jorge Arango
Slides on Slideshare
Sketchnotes by John James
Sketchnotes by Mia Gant
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman
Sketchnotes by Nathan Rogers
Sketchnotes by Jeroen Grit
Sketchnotes by Michelle Chin - #nobodyubersinthehood: Architecting for Inclusion in the Digital Service Economy — Michael Hardy
Sketchnotes by Stacy Surla - Empathy Cannot Be Automated — Jenn Downs
- Closing Plenary — Jesse James Garrett
Transcript
Sketchnotes by Jason Alderman
Sketchnotes by John James
Posters
Importance of Mentorship — Andrew Wirtanen & Michelle Chin
Seeing Clearly (PDF) — Joseph Busch
Advocating for IA in Product: A Case Study with Citrix ShareFile (PDF) — Michelle Chin & Palak Desai
Customer Experience Content Mapping — Misty Weaver
Pinterest as Digital Archive — Noreen Whysel
There’s A Universe In My Coffee Mug — Rachael Hodder
Reflections
- IA Summit 2016: How Do I Game Design? — Paris Buttfield-Addison
- The Information Architecture Summit 2016 Atlanta: my Learnings in Sketchnotes — Jeroen Grit
- IA Summit 2016: Handshakes to Hugs — Paul McAleer
- My IA Summit Past, Present, and Futures — Rachael Hodder
- IA Summit 2016 Photos — Win Goodbody