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@KyleSoucy#WIAD16 #WIADBOS
www.usableinterface.com
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I’m not an IA
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I’m not an IAbut
I do
IA work
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Confused?
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Theme:"InformaCon Everywhere, Architects Everywhere"
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Who has the Ctle IA?
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Who does not have the IA Ctle, but does IA?
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H E L L Omy job title is
(Go ahead, pick your Ctle. We’re cool like that.)
???
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Frameshi$ing
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“…it makes less and less sense to design taxonomies,
sitemaps, and wireframes without also mapping the
customer journey, modeling the system dynamics, and
analyzing the impacts upon business processes...”
- Peter Morville
without also
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“We like to say that if you’re making things for others,
you’re pracAcing informaAon architecture.”
making things for othersmaking things for othersmaking things for others
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Defining the damn thing
#dtdt
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“I fear that we have become lost in a war of dividing responsibility...”
- Abby Covert
http://alistapart.com/article/pain-with-no-name
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The UX Unicorn
hUp://blog.scoUlogic.com/rmarcalo/assets/uxscotland2015/
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WTF?
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The path tounderstanding...
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“...It doesn’t maDer who comes up with the label or who decides how
something is arranged. What maDers is that someone thinks
about it and decides a way forward that upholds clarity and intenAon.”
- Abby Covert
http://alistapart.com/article/pain-with-no-name
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You can’t create a usable product if you don’t care about people.
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When people interact with a product they’re interacCngwith YOU...
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...and every decision you made about that product on their behalf.
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hUp://www.katherinebarrow.com/author/katherine-‐barrow/
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We are the sense-‐makers
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Hooah!
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www.usableinterface.com
@kylesoucy
Thank you!