IDEA Conference - October 23-24, Seattle, WA
by petermeI moonlight as president of the IA Institute, and among my goals for my time there was to stress the value of events to bring the community together, and to expand the common perception of information architecture beyond typical web confines.
I have been able to combine both goals in my work organizing the IDEA Conference. IDEA stands for “Information: Design, Experience, Access,” and the conference addresses the design of complex information spaces of all kinds.
As such, we have an extremely diverse speaker list, including museum designers, interaction designers, mobile device designers, researchers, information visualizers, librarians, and network gurus. The event is bookended by visionaries Linda Stone and Bruce Sterling.
This event is a labor of love for me — the Institute is a non-profit, and no one is making any money (the only expenses are travel costs and facilities fees). I’m particularly satisfied with the range of contributors, and the freshness of their voices — few are darlings of the conference circuit. These are people who devote their lives to making things.
If you’re curious as to where design is heading, and the confluence and convergence of the digital and the analog, the virtual and the physical, I think this event is for you. The conference blog will be addressing the subjects that will be discussed at the event.
Sign up by August 27th, and you’ll get the discounted registration fee.
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