IROAI

Call for Participation
Sept 23-24, 2011, Prague, Czech Republic
Deadline: May 15th 2011
The Seventh European Information Architecture Summit does not have a specific theme. Rather, we will be putting together an English-language programme that represents a wide range of subjects – from hard-core search strategies, to more general user-experience topics.
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“Government environments often have prescribed complex processes for obtaining and implementing technology solutions. In order to encourage and enable information architecture (IA) in government systems, it is essential to embed IA within the current processes and to view IA as part of the overall architectural framework. The definition of IA used here is broad and [...]

Dan Klyn is Adjunct Faculty at University of Michigan’s School of Information where he is teaching Information Architecture. This is the class sylabus.

“Why does this need to be explained? Why isn’t this more clear? Several reasons:
1. IA as described above is still pretty new, highly interstitial, and very complex; its materials are invisible, and its effects are, almost by definition, back-stage where nobody notices them (until they suck). We’re still learning how to [...]

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“I spent some time lately catching up with the status of various things related to my recent researcher-practitioner interaction efforts, my latest “UX community give back” focus. Something I try to make small advancements in during my “spare” time, with the hope of helping foster some longer-term benefits. Some of this is a repeat of [...]

The EuroIA Committee and the Information Architecture Institute have
partnered up this year to offer students who could be interested in
being in Paris on September 24-25 2010 the usual lower rates for
attending and the added bonus of a free membership to the IAI, which
will be activated after the conference.
I believe this is a good opportunity to [...]

“When some two years ago we started working on what was to become the Journal of Information Architecture, I had already started charting what academia was thinking and writing on the subject of IA. It was not easy, as the one word which could basically explain how the field looked was fractured.” [...]

“Information Architects often struggle to stay relevant to business clients and internal project teams due to their academic approach to achieving business objectives. Way too often, Information Architecture presentations fail to resonate with internal and external stakeholders due to how methods, findings, and solutions are presented. The following represent [...]

Dan Klyn preda arhitectura informatiei la University of Michigan School of Information. Clientii sai includ: Incorrect Music, Lumber Liquidators, Time-Life, ShopAtHomeTV, American Girl, TJ Maxx, Artistry Cosmetics, Rose Brand, British Virgin Islands Tourism Board, Costa Del Mar, Tobacco-Free Florida, SIGGRAPH, Ross School of Business, NOOMA and world-famous folk music venue [...]