World IA Day, 2012 – Johannesburg

You are invited to a one-day mini conference to celebrate World IA Day (WAID) on Saturday the 11th of February 2011.

Information Architecture (IA) has been described as the “The structural design of shared information environments” and provides methods, tools and techniques critical to providing the underlying structure of user experiences. Often described as ‘the design behind the design’ IA has made its biggest impact in the design of user experiences for the Web, however more recently it is increasingly being acknowledged as a critical tool for designing usable, effective and integrated cross-channel customer experiences.

Who should attend?

Designers of all kinds, strategists, marketeers, product folks, customer experience officers, programmers and developers, content strategists, architects, urban planners and any one, really, who cares about making the world a more useful, usable and desirable place to live in.

Line-up

• Key note: Andrea Resmini (Sweden) author of ‘Pervasive Information Architecture’, president of the Information Architecture Institute and founder of the Journal for Information Architecture
• Local speakers include Rian van der Merwe (Kalahari.com), Rey Uys (Standard Bank), Vlad Nedelcu (The Times), Jason Hobbs (Human Experience Design) and William Saunders (Flow Interactive)

Agenda

08h45: Registration opens

09h45 – 12h00: Welcome & speakers

12h00 – 13h00: Lunch

13h00 – 16h15: Speakers & open mic sessions

16h15 – 16h45pm: Wrap up and close

After event drinks and networking at Il Giardino, 44 Stanley

Venue

The auditorium of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA) at the University of Johannesburg, Bunting Road Campus, Auckland Park, Johannesburg.

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Tickets

Tickets are available online through WebTickets:

• Regular: R450
• Members of Information Architecture Institute: R350 (Please bring proof of membership to registration)
• Student: R100 (50 Seats available. Please bring valid student identification to regisration)

Sponsors

This event is made possible with the sponsorship and support of the following organisations:

Gold Sponsor	Interact RDT - Gold Sponsor to World IA Day, 2012 - Johannesburg
Silver Sponsors
Silver Sponsors

With thanks to

This event is brought to you by the Information Architecture Institute, the University of Johannesburg and the SA UX Forum.

Keywords

cross-channel design, user experience, service-design, usability, co-design, interaction design, navigation, user research, information architecture