I really enjoyed Clutter is King: The story of filing, piling and beyond and how people really get things done by Paris Buttfield-Addison and Jon Manning. It was an insightful look at the way that people organically organize information in the real world,…
After the Better Cross Channel Experiences talk the next 20 minute talk for that session was Filtered & Refined: Interfaces for Distilling Data by Erin Jo Richey. This talk was all about the way that information is organized and presented…
I really enjoyed Empower Yourself. Negotiate for the User by Carol Smith. For a 20 minute session I think she did a great job touching on the primary principles of negotiating and how to negotiate for the benefit of both…
I choose to attend a couple of the 20 minute dual session blocks to see what I thought about the smaller sessions. I have to admin I was impressed with the amount of information people were able to fit in…
The last presentation I attended on day 1 of the summit was Collaging: Getting Answers to the Questions You Don’t Know to Ask by Kyle Soucy. I very much enjoyed this presentation as this is not a technique I had…
Orchestrate Against Atomism is a presentation that was done by Patrick Quattlebaum. I was intrigued by the title and decided to go when I read from the guide that the talk was about challenges with cross channel experiences. He starts by talking…
The first regular session I enjoyed at the summit this year was Rhythm & Flow by Peter Stahl. It was a very interesting talk that made me think about the rhythm of user interactions from a repetitive nature, and the flow that…
The second and final workshop I attended at the IA Summit this year was Making Sense of the Data by Dana Chisnell. This was a interactive workshop reviewing ways to gather and synthesize customer feedback. This was a 1/2 day workshop…
For my first workshop at this years summit, I chose Peter Morville and Samantha Starmer’s Cross Channel Experiences. And for the first time this year, I will be attempting to blog about the highlights of presentations I enjoy using the…