Friday, April 5 2013
- People, Places, & Things
- Growing Together
- Thinking Big
- Shared Sessions & Flex
8:30 AM
Conference Introduction
Crystal Kubitsky, Giles Colborne & Kevin M. Hoffman
9:00 AM
Opening Keynote: Beyond Mobile, Beyond Web
Scott Jenson
10:30 AM
I Can’t Work With You, But I Need To
Kyle Soucy
User Experience Architecture in a Cross-Channel World
Austin Govella
Flex Track Session
Presented by you!
11:30 AM
Design Guidelines: Real-Life Stories
Rachel Sengers, Lesley Humphreys, Rob Fay and Christopher Merkel
Sitting in the Director’s Chair: How the Role We Play Drives the Vision of the User Experience.
Traci Lepore
First time speaker!
Designing with Sensors: Creating Adaptive Experiences
Avi Itzkovitch
Flex Track Session
Presented by you!
12:15 AM
Lunch (included) — Yum!
1:45 PM
20 Minute Session
The Zen of Consulting: A Meditation on Finding the Path
Dennis Breen
First time speaker!
Brand-Driven Design (New and Improved!)
Mike Atherton
90 Minute Session
The Seventh Occasional Information Architecture Slam
Lynn Boyden, Chris Chandler, Matthew Fetchko, Eric Reiss
2:45 PM
Physical Design Methods and Animation to Explore Problems and Communicate Design
Kate Tarling
First time speaker!
90 Minute Session
The Seventh Occasional Information Architecture Slam (continued)
Lynn Boyden, Chris Chandler, Matthew Fetchko, Eric Reiss
4:00 PM
Why We Share: Communicating Social Engagement
Angel Anderson
Brown Dirt UX – Creating Impact Without Permission
Adam Polansky
What We Can Learn From Digital Outcasts
Kel Smith
Flex Track Session
Presented by you!
5:00 PM
Evening Keynote: When Disaster Strikes – Where Do You Turn?
Dr. Chris Hagar
6:00 PM
Saturday, April 6 2013
9:00 AM
Links, Nodes, and Order: A Unified Theory of IA
Jorge Arango
9 Ways To Design With a Distributed Team
Jeff Gothelf
Secrets of Audio Transcription in Improving UX Universally
Svetlana Kouznetsova
Flex Track Session
Presented by you!
10:15 AM
Taxonomy for App Makers
Andy Fitzgerald
First time speaker!
The New New Hire
Leslie Jensen-Inman
Users In The Mist: Stories From Field Studies
Brad Nunnally
Flex Track Session
Presented by you!
11:15 AM
Typography is Information Architecture – How a Better Understanding of Type Goes a Long Way
Boon Yew Chew
First time speaker!
Revolutionizing GOV.UK
Paul Annett
Flex Track Session
Presented by you!
12:00 PM
Lunch (provided) — Yum!
1:30 PM
20 Minute Session
Fringe IA: Understanding Complex Organizational, Data, & Technical Issues
Michael Adcock
2:30 PM
20 Minute Session
Beyond Good & Evil: How Behavioral Economics & User Experience Create Transformative Design Ideas
John Schroepfer, John Balz
First time speakers!
Hooked
Nir Eyal
90 Minute Session
Web Governance: Where Strategy Meets Structure (continued)
Lisa Welchman, Peter Morville
3:45 PM
The UX Professional’s Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams
Aviva Rosenstein
Unzipping the Genome Project Meme
Chris Oliver
First time speaker!
4:45 PM
Evening Keynote: Building the World’s Visual Language
Scott Thomas (AKA Simple Scott)
Sunday, April 7 2013
8:30 AM
Exercise and Reflect with the Conference Co-Chairs
9:30 AM
Product Is the New Big IA
Christian Crumlish, Donna Lichaw, and Bryce Glass
Online Forms: No * for #
Svetlana Kouznetsova
10:45 AM
The Big Challenges of Small Data
Karl Fast
The F Word… FAIL
David Farkas
First time speaker!
UxD v. Analytics
Farris Khan, Chris Farnum
11:45 AM
20 Minute Session
Elegant Precision: Connect with people using plain language
Lauren Colton
First time speaker!
20 Minute Session
Designing for Failure: How Creating Negative Personas and Failed User Journeys Make a Better Website
Annie Drynan
First time speaker!
20 Minute Session
Eating Our Own Dog Food: Simplicity in Practice and Not Just Design
Ammneh Aziem
First time speaker!
12:30 PM
Bag Lunch (provided) — Yum!
2:00 PM
“Stop Doing What You’re Told!” (Reframing the Design Problem)
Stephen Anderson
What Before How: Making a Home for Information Architecture (or, Why There Are Now and Always Have Been Information Architects)
Bob Royce, Dan Klyn
Myths to Design By
Chris Baum
Flex Track Session
Presented by you!
3:00 PM
Closing Plenary
Karen McGrane
4:00 PM
5 Minute Madness and Goodbyes! Conference ends at 5:00 PM, or when they kick us out. 
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