Pre-Conference Workshops

pre-conference workshops are an additional cost

Wednesday, March 30
Morning 8:30 AM - Noon	Ubiquitous Information Architecture Mineral D	Peter Morville
Afternoon 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Pervasive Information Architecture Mineral D	Andrea Resmini
All Day 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM	How To Do Content Strategy Mineral F	Karen McGrane
	See What I Mean: How to Communicate Ideas with Comics Granite B	Kevin Cheng
	Tapworthy Mobile Design and User Experience Mineral G	Josh Clark
	Usability Bootcamp Granite C	Christine Perfetti

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Thursday, March 31
Morning 8:30 AM - Noon	Critical Thinking for UX Designers (or Anyone) Agate B-C	Stephen P Anderson, Russ Unger
	The Ethnographic Interview Agate A	David Fiorito
	Nailing It Down: Detailing Design to Preserve the UX Vision Mineral F	Joe Sokohl
Afternoon 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Working with (and becoming) a Product Manager Agate B-C	Kevin Cheng
	Creating an Agile UX Manifesto Mineral F	Mark Plant, Ann McMeekin Carrier
	Observation Techniques for Developing an Experience Strategy: Evaluating the IA Summit Agate A	Christina York
	Career Workshop Mineral G	Russ Unger, Amanda Schonfeld
All Day 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM	Beyond Digital: Designing for the Cross-Channel Future Granite A	Samantha Starmer, Jess McMullin
	Information Architecture: Theory and Practice Granite C	Donna Spencer
	The Engagement Experience - Examining Meeting Design, Personality Management, and Project Culture Granite B	Patrick Quattlebaum, Kevin M. Hoffman, Andrew Hinton
	Making Insight: Practical techniques and emerging theories for data analysis Granite C	Matthew Milan, Karl Fast

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Main Conference

Friday, April 1
	Centennial Ballroom A-C	Centennial Ballroom F	Centennial Ballroom H	Centennial Ballroom G
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM	Introduction
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM	Keynote Nate Silver
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Morning Coffee
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM	More Than a Metaphor: Making Places with Information Jorge Arango, Andrew Hinton, Andrea Resmini	Design for the RUDES: The Value of Design Principles Rob Fay, Joanna Hunt	We Are All Content Strategists Now Karen McGrane	Democracy is a Design Problem: Ballot Design Studio Jonathan Knoll, Dana Chisnell
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM	Creating a Navigation System... For Your Career! Shai Idelson	The User Experience of Disruption Russ Unger, Dan Willis	Letting Go of Perfection: Developing IA Agility Serena H. Rosenhan, Joanna Markel, Chris Farnum
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM	Lunch
1:45 PM - 2:30 PM	Upping Your Game: Five Things IAs Need To Talk About More Leanna Gingras	Rethinking User Research for the Social Web Dana Chisnell	Create Successful Cross-Channel Experiences Samantha Starmer	Open for a Flex Session
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM	Break
2:45 PM - 3:30 PM	UX Communities: Starting from the Beginning Matthew Solle, Martin Belam, Joe Sokohl, Eric Reiss	Effect Mapping: A Better Way to Get Really Usable Results Out of IT Projects Jonas Söderström	Interfaces Are Made of Words Carl Collins	Open for a Flex Session
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM	The Stories We Construct Stephen P Anderson	Unmoderated Remote Usability Testing: Good or Evil? Kyle Soucy	Posting Our Hearts Out: Understanding Online Self-Disclosure for Better Designs Javier Velasco-Martin	Open for a Flex Session
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM	Break
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM	The Most Valuable UX Person in the World Jared Spool
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM	Poster Session

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Saturday, April 2
	Centennial Ballroom F-G	Centennial Ballroom A-B	Mineral A-C	Centennial Ballroom H
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM	The Reluctant Design Strategist: The Story of a UX Team of 1.5 Failing Forward Megan Ellinger	Discussing Design: The Art of Critique Adam Connor, Aaron Irizarry	A Practical Guide to Measuring User Experience Richard Dalton	Open for a Flex Session
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM	Morning Coffee
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM	I'm Not Just Making This Up: The Value of Thinking Time in Experience Design Tim Caynes	We Love Change? Change is Scary! Johanna Kollmann	Lean IA: Getting Out of the Deliverables Business Jeff Gothelf	UX Show & Tell
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM	Break
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM	Toilet Paper and Information Sharing: Designing Compelling Information Ecosystems Justin Davis	The User Experience Brief: The What and Why before the How John Yesko	I'm a UX Designer - and I'm an SEO: Working Together to Heal the Rift Between Customers and the Marketers Who Love Them Jonathon Colman, Erin Hawk
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM	Open for a Flex Session	Increase The Size Of Your Package In Just Four Weeks: Four Steps To Successful E-Commerce Eric Reiss	Beyond Digital: What IAs Need to Know about Service Design Samantha Starmer, Priyanka Kakar, Jess McMullin, Andrea Resmini	IA 2.0: An Open Conversation about Context, Mobility and Semantics Duane Degler
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM	Break
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM	Open for a Flex Session	EIA: Enterprise as a Strategy for Bulletproofing IA Gregg Rugolo
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM	Afternoon Tea
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM	The Journey to 'Yes' Jeff Parks, Alla Zollers	DIY Mobile Usability Testing Belén Barros Pena and Bernard Tyers	Numbers are Our Friends: Information Architects Make the Best Web Analysts Lynne Polischuik, Julie Strothman	Open for a Flex Session
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM	Break
4:45 PM - 5:30 PM	Beyond User Research Louis Rosenfeld

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Sunday, April 3
	Centennial Ballroom F-G	Centennial Ballroom A-B	Mineral A-C	Centennial Ballroom H
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM	Beyond the Polar Bear Mike Atherton, Michael Smethurst	Pig-Faced Orcs: Design Lessons from Old-School Role-playing Games James Reffell	Solving World Problems with UX Olga Howard	Open for a Flex Session
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM	Break
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM	Open for a Flex Session	From Flab to Fab! Design Secrets for Overweight Interfaces Kim Bieler	Content Strategy on a Shoestring Budget Carrie Hane Dennison	Practicing What We Preach: Usable and Effective Design Deliverables Aviva W Rosenstein
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM	Morning Coffee
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM	Toward an Information Architecture Curriculum and Canon Dan Klyn	Your Brain On Graphics: Research-inspired Visual Design Connie Malamed	Ideas & Innovation: Simple Premise - Small Starts Adam Polansky	IA Summit 2012 and Beyond Samantha Starmer, Jess McMullin
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM		Break
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM		Discombobulation, Fire-Breathing Dragons and Wet Noodles: Creating Productive Workshops in Scary Situations Beth Koloski	How Valuable Is Your Work? Measuring the User Experience Eduardo F Ortiz
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM	On Why We Should NOT Focus On UX Koen Claes	Democratizing Data, Driving Social Change Mekayla Ichneumon Beaver, Matthew Barry	On 'Shrink It and Pink It': Designing Experiences for Women Jessica Ivins	Open for a Flex Session
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM	Break
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Closing Plenary Cennydd Bowles
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM	5-Minute Madness

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