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April 26/2012 Jeff Parks
The following is a summary of my presentation at the 2012 Polish Information Architecture Summit in Warsaw, Poland this month. My heart felt thanks to the organizers and volunteers for your efforts in putting together a fantastic conference and for the honour of being your closing keynote.
April 19/2012 Jeff Parks
In 1968 Peter Drucker wrote a book with an elegant title, The Age of Discontinuity. In this book he identified four main topics which he believed would exert a profound influence on the shape of our world.
February 29/2012 Jamie Gerrard
I consider myself to be somewhat of a collector. Not in the traditional sense, where I’m constantly checking eBay to see if I can snag the missing issues of The Walking Dead comic book series that I need, but a collector of patterns. More specifically, design patterns related to website and web application interface elements (or their UI). Whether it’s an account registration form I came across while signing up for a new service, or something as simple as a call-to-action button, I always have FireShot handy to grab a quick screenshot.
February 14/2012 Jeff Parks
When I met with the new Board of Directors for the Information Architecture Institute in Iceland last year, we worked hard in taking the first steps to rethink the IAI and how to keep all future endeavours not only centred on the needs of the community and advancement of the discipline, but also to involve more of the global community in everything we offered.
February 7/2012 Ricardo Fleck
I do not intend on making this another Defining The Damn Thing post, there are plenty of those for all tastes in our industry. But I’d like to share my thoughts on a few points that I don’t see people discussing very often on UX. The Meta User Experience which is the User Experience of our User Experience projects…
