IDEA is the IA Institute?s conference on Information: Design, Experience,
Access. The conference brings together practitioners who are addressing
design and information challenges of today?s always-on, always-connected
world. The full program is available on our website http://www.ideaconference.org.
Who is speaking?
David Armano: Micro-Interactions in a 2.0 World
Alberto Cañas: Cmap Tools: From Meaningful Learning to a Network of
Knowledge Builder
Chris Crawford: Linguistic User Interfaces
Bill DeRouchey: The Language of Interaction
Jason Fried: Getting Real
Jesse James Garrett: Aurora: Envisioning the Future of the Web
Aradhana Goel: Emerging trends | Design thinking | Service innovation
Dave Gray: Books and Browsers
Andrew Hinton: You Are (Mostly)Here: Digital Space and the Context Problem
Jason Kunesh: Design Context Clues
Elliott Malkin: Information in Space
Edwina von Gal: Mixing Messages
Who should attend IDEA?
IDEA will be very exciting to anyone who is involved with creating
products and services that require users to engage in complex
information spaces.
This includes information architects, user experience designers,
interaction designers, web designers, information designers, game
designers... designers in general, really! Smart marketers will also be
interested in the conversations at IDEA. I also expect students of these
disciplines will be very keen on coming to the conference.
Because it's not a large multi-track conference, IDEA is also a great
place to network. If you need to hire professionals from any of the
above disciplines, or if you are looking for a new career challenge, you
have to come to IDEA.
Sponsor can join us in our exhibit hall as well as on our website,
meeting our attendees and site visitors. It's a great opportunity to
network, recruit and promote - visit
http://ideaconference.org/sponsors.html or write to
idea2008 AT iainstitute.org for more info.
What is the Preconference?
Maya Design's popular full-day workshop uses real-world case studies as
the starting point for learning how to gather domain knowledge,
synthesize and structure data, diagram processes and relationships, and
design interactions based on those models. Workshop exercises include
concept mapping, documenting mental models, process-flow diagramming,
and depicting information models.