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richard_dalton | 1 Oct 2007 16:00
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[Sigia-l] IA Summit 2008 – Call for Papers Deadline Reminder

A reminder that the submission deadline for the 2008 IA Summit in Miami is 
October 31st. The summit is a great opportunity to share your ideas on IA 
and UX, meet old friends, make new ones, network and generally have a fun 
and thought provoking time. See the summit site for full details, 
www.iasummit.org.


  Richard
  2008 IA Summit Chair

 
> The Information Architecture Summit is the premier gathering place 
> for those interested in information architecture. The 2008
> conference will be the 9th IA Summit and will be held at the Hyatt
> Regency Hotel in Miami, Florida, USA from April 12-14 with
> pre-conference sessions from April 10-11.
> 
> The 2007 IA Summit attracted over 570 attendees with varying degrees
> of IA experience and from many related fields. Attendees are
> passionate about information architecture and user experience and
> many are actively involved in the community and the summit itself –
> over 230 of the attendees provided feedback about the event with 93%
> indicating that they would attend the summit again and 95%
> indicating they would recommend the summit to a colleague. 
> 
> This is your chance to contribute and take part! We're now calling 
> for submissions for presentations, panels, research papers,
> pre-conference workshops, posters and management track content. 
> 
> The 2008 theme of "Experiencing Information" shifts the focus back 
> to users. A user experience exists only to allow people to "do
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Karl Fast | 1 Oct 2007 18:02
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Re: [Sigia-l] IA Summit 2008 ??? Call for Papers Deadline Reminder


> the submission deadline for the 2008 IA Summit in Miami is
> October 31st. 

Except for research papers.

These are due November 30th.

Details: http://www.iasummit.org/2008/call_research.html

Anyone can submit a research paper: practitioners, students,
academic researchers...anyone. Last year we received papers from all
three categories. Also, we had submissions from six different
countries: Canada, Germany, Italy, Korea, South Africa, and the
United States.

You need to submit a complete paper (not just an abstract), which
will undergo a blind peer-review process. So the requirements are
steeper, which is a big reason for the later submission date.

In sum, the research track is:

 - open to everyone
 - academic-style review process
 - submission deadline is Nov. 30

PS. Grant Campbell is chairing the research track this year. I ran t
    last year and thought I'd do my little RA!RA! for the research
    track.
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Madonnalisa Gonzales-Chan | 1 Oct 2007 23:25
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[Sigia-l] JOB: Contract Taxonomy/UI Designer

I am posting this on behalf of my client.  Do not respond to the list.

Please respond directly to taxonomyeditor <at> gmail.com

Job Title: Taxonomy Developer

Description
This project is for an exciting startup business developing a Web 2.0 site that will leverage technology
from the Information Science and Information Architecture fields in new and innovative ways. The main
task in the second phase of this project will be to maintain and expand two hierarchical taxonomies in
business management.

The core task involves refining and expanding a meaningful faceted hierarchical structure that has
already been developed. There may also be a need to create definitions that would be clear to a general
audience for various aspects of the data in the hierarchies. These two taxonomies are used by a subject
matter expert and by a computer program to index text. The taxonomy editor needs to work with the subject
matter expert and the programmer. In addition, the taxonomy editor will participate in the design of
taxonomy-based user interfaces for searching and display of results and modify the taxonomy to better
serve this function.

Qualifications
Must be able tothink logically and creatively, generate innovative ideas, prioritize complex tasks, and
work well under pressure; look at existing situations and problems in novel ways and come up with creative
solutions and transform these creative ideas into practical reality; adapt and work effectively with a
variety of situations, individuals, and groups. 

Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS) or comparable degree. Business background is strongly preferred.

Ideal candidate will have 3+ years experience in information architecture of taxonomies, controlled
vocabulary or classification schemes for business subject materials, including demonstrated
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Andrew Boyd | 2 Oct 2007 12:21
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[Sigia-l] Quote

Folks,

I can't remember who said this... "Design is something we do with
people, not to them".

Even the mighty Google is drawing a blank.

Anyone know?

Thanks, Andrew

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Ziya Oz | 2 Oct 2007 23:19
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Re: [Sigia-l] Quote

Andrew Boyd:

> "Design is something we do with people, not to them"

Someone actually said that?
Must be a UCD nutcase who hasn't heard of body sculpting, tattoos, etc. :-)

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Ethan Maehl | 2 Oct 2007 23:31

[Sigia-l] Open IA Position - Seattle

Overview: 

We're Avenue A Razorfish, the world's largest interactive agency. We
help forward-thinking companies transform their businesses online. We're
more than 1,000 creative minds in 12 U.S. cities and Europe. Each office
is filled with opportunities for people who want to invent the digital
future. It's a big challenge, but it's a big Internet, and there's work
to be done. 

Avenue A | Razorfish has an immediate opening for an information
architect in our Seattle office. As a member of our User Experience
community, you will work with multidisciplinary teams to create smart,
innovative online solutions for our clients.

Please contact jeanine.wallner <at> avenuea-razorfish.com.

Responsibilities: 

*  Understanding target audiences' needs and other motivating factors
and translating them into concepts for compelling interactions and
experiences 

*  Collaboratively developing scenarios, navigation models, and
prototypes for demonstration of concepts to clients 

*  Developing and documenting detailed information architecture and
interaction designs for highly interactive interfaces to support
marketing strategy, brand strategy, and desired user behaviors 

*  Leading and/or participating in immersive user research, concept
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Andrew Boyd | 3 Oct 2007 02:32
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Re: [Sigia-l] Quote

On 10/3/07, Ziya Oz <listera <at> earthlink.net> wrote:
> Someone actually said that?
> Must be a UCD nutcase who hasn't heard of body sculpting, tattoos, etc. :-)

The design is still done (in most cases) with the client - the
implementation is done to them :) Even if the designer is only saying
"You want a tattoo of Wyle E Coyote where? Oh, man, that is going to
hurt!". :)

Cheers, Andrew
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Michal Smyk | 3 Oct 2007 10:40
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[Sigia-l] GUI elements

Hello,
this is my first post here, but I've been lurking for some months already,
and I think this might be the best place to ask my question ;)

Can anyone recommend some on-line summary of all existing GUI elements (like
drop-downs, multi-choice etc.) and what is their purpose, most frequent use?

Some time ago I saw a checkbox being used in tab's role, and I thought some
decent source of information to expose such nonsenses would be of great
value.

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Ziya Oz | 3 Oct 2007 10:58
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Re: [Sigia-l] GUI elements

Michal Smyk:

> Can anyone recommend some on-line summary of all existing GUI elements (like
> drop-downs, multi-choice etc.) and what is their purpose, most frequent use?

In what context? Web? Desktop? Mobile? iPhone?

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James Aylett | 3 Oct 2007 11:48
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Re: [Sigia-l] GUI elements

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:40:32AM +0200, Michal Smyk wrote:

> Some time ago I saw a checkbox being used in tab's role, and I thought some
> decent source of information to expose such nonsenses would be of great
> value.

Just to point out that in some cases implementing tabs as /radio/
icons makes perfect sense (they should then be styled to look like
tabs). This is more an HTML implementation detail than a design point,
however (so where it fits on the IA scale is anyone's guess).

(I can't think of a good reason to use checkbox semantics on something
most users think of as a tab, so that's possibly indeed a nonsense :-)

James

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