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Angel Anderson

Why We Share: Communicating Social Engagement

Stephen P. Anderson

“Stop Doing What You’re Told!” (Reframing the Design Problem)

also:
Design for Understanding: Solving the Small Data Problems

Paul Annett

Revolutionizing GOV.UK

John Balz

Beyond Good & Evil: How Behavioral Economics & User Experience Create Transformative Design Ideas

Margot Bloomstein

Using Brand-Driven Content Strategy to Strengthen and Sell UX

Dan Brown

Surviving Design Projects: Managing Conflict in Creative Environments

Dana Chisnell

Ending the Opinion Wars: Practical, Collaborative Techniques for Analyzing Research Data

Christian Crumlish

Product Is the New Big IA

Nir Eyal

Hooked

Brad Frost

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Responsive Web Design – And Less!

Kerry-Anne Gilowey

Schrodinger’s IA: Learning to Love Ambiguity

Kim Goodwin

Research Tools for Defining Products and Changing Minds

Jeff Gothelf

9 Ways To Design With a Distributed Team

Andrew Hinton

The World Is The Screen: Elements of Information Environments

Aaron Irrizary

Discussing Design: The Art of Critique

Leslie Jensen-Inman

The New New Hire

Dan Klyn

What Before How: Making a Home for Information Architecture (or, Why There Are Now and Always Have Been Information Architects)

Peter Morville

Web Governance: Where Strategy Meets Structure

Eric Reiss

The Seventh Occasional Information Architecture Slam

also:
Putting the Content Into Content Strategy – Effective Writing for Interactive Media

Donna Spencer

Information Architecture: Theory and Practice

Jared Spool

Advanced Presentation Techniques: How to Talk to Stakeholders, Peers and Clients

Dan Willis

Advanced Presentation Techniques: How to Talk to Stakeholders, Peers and Clients

Christina Wodtke

Get Your Game On

Even More Awesome Speakers

Michael Adcock

Fringe IA: Understanding Complex Organizational, Data, & Technical Issues

Jorge Arango

Links, Nodes, and Order: A Unified Theory of IA

Mike Atherton

Brand-Driven Design (New and Improved!)

also:
Modeling Structured Content

Ammneh Aziem

Eating Our Own Dog Food: Simplicity in Practice and Not Just Design

Chris Baum

Myths to Design By

Samuel Bowles

Organizational Nerve – Designing Teams to Feel & Innovate

Lynn Boyden

The Seventh Occasional Information Architecture Slam

Dennis Breen

The Zen of Consulting: A Meditation on Finding the Path

Chris Chandler

The Seventh Occasional Information Architecture Slam

Carl Collins

Mobile Eventually

Lauren Colton

Elegant Precision: Connect with people using plain language

Adam Connor

Discussing Design: The Art of Critique

Stuart Curran

Stories to Stories

Annie Drynan

Designing for Failure: How Creating Negative Personas and Failed User Journeys Make a Better Website

David Farkas

The F Word… FAIL

Chris Farnum

UxD v. Analytics

Karl Fast

The Big Challenges of Small Data

Rob Fay

Design Guidelines: Real-Life Stories

Matthew Fetchko

The Seventh Occasional Information Architecture Slam

Andy Fitzgerald

Taxonomy for App Makers

Bryce Glass

Product Is the New Big IA

Austin Govella

User Experience Architecture in a Cross-Channel World

Kaarin Hoff

Using Abstraction to Increase Clarity

Lesley Humphreys

Design Guidelines: Real-Life Stories

The Information Architecture Institute

Academics and Practitioners Round Table: Reframing Information Architecture

Avi Itzkovitch

Designing with Sensors: Creating an Adaptive System

Farris Khan

UxD v. Analytics

Svetlana Kouznetsova

Secrets of Audio Transcription in Improving UX Universally

Scott Kubie

Telling Your Job Search Story (With Social Media)

Traci Lepore

Sitting in the Director’s Chair: How the Role We Play Drives the Vision of the User Experience.

Donna Lichaw

Product Is the New Big IA

James Macanufo

Collaborative Design of Smart Things

Christopher Merkel

Design Guidelines: Real-Life Stories

Olga Morawczynski

Development by Design: Innovations in Rural Africa

Sarah Nelson

Destroy Silos With Connected Teams

Jacco Nieuwland

Stakeholder Persuasion

Brad Nunnally

Users In The Mist: Stories From Field Studies

Chris Oliver

Unzipping the Genome Project Meme

Jeffrey Ryan Pass

When Too Many Is Just Enough: Citizen Engagement and Federal Government Websites

Christine Perfetti

Usability Bootcamp: Getting Your Team Onboard

Craig Peters

Running Great Review Meetings with Clients & Partners

Adam Polansky

Brown Dirt UX – Creating Impact Without Permission

Patrick Quattlebaum

Mapping Experiences and Orchestrating Touch Points

Andrea Resmini

Ghost in the Shell — Information Architecture in the Postdigital World

Chris Risdon

Mapping Experiences and Orchestrating Touch Points

Aviva Rosenstein

The UX Professional’s Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Claire Rowland

“Siri, did I leave the oven on?” Experience Design for the Connected Home

Bob Royce

What Before How: Making a Home for Information Architecture (or, Why There Are Now and Always Have Been Information Architects)

Kate Rutter

Realify Your Secret Idea with Lean Startup Methods: Make a Product in Three Hours

Andrew Schall

Clearing the Fog from User Experience Strategy

Martina Schell

Selling Design To Human Beings – 13 Communication Anti-Patterns Resolved

Amanda Schonfeld

Career Workshop (Free!)

John Schroepfer

Beyond Good & Evil: How Behavioral Economics & User Experience Create Transformative Design Ideas

Rachel Sengers

Design Guidelines: Real-Life Stories

David Peter Simon

It’s About People

Kel Smith

What We Can Learn From Digital Outcasts

Alberta Soranzo

Unicorns and Other Wild Things

Kyle Soucy

I Can’t Work With You, But I Need To

Chui-Chui Tan

Your Mobile Experience Is Not Theirs

Kate Tarling

Physical Design Methods and Animation to Explore Problems and Communicate Design

Russ Unger

Career Workshop (Free!)

Adam Ungstad

Metadata in the Cross-Channel Ecosystem: Consistency, Context and Interoperability

Martijn Van Loon

Stakeholder Persuasion

Thomas Vander Wal

Using Social Lenses to See Social Dimensions

Joan Vermette

Organizational Parkour – The Game

Lisa Welchman

Web Governance: Where Strategy Meets Structure

Boon Yew Chew

Typography is Information Architecture – How a Better Understanding of Type Goes a Long Way

John Yuda

Know Before You Owe: Crowdsourcing Mortgage Forms