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Listen to Holly Phillips & Kyle Soucy’s “Rapid-turnaround usability testing: not just a pipedream” talk at IA Summit 2010

Kyle Soucy and Holly Phillips talk about how, with a little planning and a few innovative techniques, you can conduct regular, fast-turnaround usability interviews with a shoestring staff and budget […]

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Listen to Russ Unger & Ross McClean’s “Living Personas – Visually Displaying Brand Insights and Connections to Consumers” talk at IA Summit 2010

In this session Russ Unger and Ross McClean examine living personas—an interactive and engaging format that goes beyond flat paper personas we are used to. They discuss how this technique will change your perception of personas, no matter what you think of them now, and how it can showcase how real people are behaving related to your brand, product, or project […]

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Listen to Daniel Brown’s “Eight Principles of Information Architecture” talk at IA Summit 2010

Daniel Brown talks about eight principles of information architecture that influence the rules and frameworks that govern the experience, why each is important, and why they are immutable […]

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Listen to Don Turnbull & John Tolva’s “Metropolitan Information Architecture: The future of UX, Databases, and the (Information) Architecture of complex, urban environments” talk at IA Summit 2010

How does information architecture and design synchronize with urban architecture? How does mobile communication and web culture impact the streetscape?

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Listen to Debra Levin Gelman’s “Designing with Constraints” talk IA Summit 2010

Creating meaningful digital experiences is a complicated business. Fluctuating requirements, unexpected technical limitations, and stringent branding rules can make experience design feel like an exercise in compromise […]

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Listen to Kevin Wick’s “Going Interactive: How we stopped making static wireframes and started making prototypes” talk at IA Summit 2010

Looking for more effective ways to communicate your research and designs? Kevin Wick says one way to do that is to stop creating static, paper-based wireframes and to start creating browser-based, interactive prototypes […]

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Listen to Kate Rutter’s “See, Sort, Sketch: Pen & Paper Techniques for Getting From Research to Design” talk at IA Summit 2010

In this talk, Kate Rutter gives you a taste-test of methods and activities that leverage the power of pen and paper as open, participatory tools in the research analysis process […]