InfoCamp Berkeley 2010/Topics
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Before InfoCamp Berkeley 2010, please list and discuss potential session topics here. You'll be able to sign up for sessions by writing your names & topics on the big paper schedule on the wall during InfoCamp itself.
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Share your ideas for presentations, sessions, lightning talks:
- The Side-effect Solutions - There's a set of problems that cannot be effectively solved directly. How do I identify them and solve them indirectly? (Most of my examples are about internet services, but this is applicable in many other domains too.)
- From On-line to Off-line - As more and more services become internet-ized, there's a "hidden" market of off-line services. After all, We are still social animals who crave face-to-face interactions. How can I leverage the internet to bring people together in the real world?
- Ten steps for security (and I don't mean pay attention to the URL bar, I mean things like encrypted disk)
- How to be as anonymous as possible online
- Or maybe, demonstrations of how impossible it is to be anonymous online
- A basic run down of the things an organization must do to be on top of things legally (privacy policy, data retention, etc.)
- Explanations of gov't access to your data - how they can get it, and how you can avoid it
- Problems with the software patent world, and ideas about how to fix them
- Problems with the copyright world, and ideas how to fix them
- Ideas for a self-hosted cloud (e.g. self-hosting mozilla weave == running your own delicious)
- Secure and private Internet backup solutions
- Is the iPad the end of open computing? Is Chrome OS the end of applications as we know them?
- Ideas about a research project involving buttons...
- Optimization and Monetization - how to make the Dark Side work for you.
- my current experience with building a simple magento shop and research into creating a facebook shopping experience.
- (User) interview horror stories — and how to avoid them
- how search fits into IA, robot crawlers, stopwords, search security, relevance heuristics
- effective search results interfaces
- search log analytics
- click-tracking and session analysis
- what local government is doing to foster online participation
- How ux / design fits into the product development process, & its importance for a successful product
- Privacy issues, location-based services, Google App Engine
- My experiences working in a Saas, attempting to build usable travel products in an agile environment
- How the product / design process does / should work at a startup
- touch interface prototypes
- ux/agile integration
- navigation flow/design
- working with clients on requirements gathering
- architectural design connections
- search and search analytics information gathering
- experiences on SharePoint
- intranet building and governance
- some ideas about "play" and "work"
- about the UK Web Archive project: lots of unstructured data with a spreadsheet interface
- how to design user experience that helps users 'go green': presenting information, inducing action, getting results
- incubator at an institution: how to develop a project quickly within a bureaucracy
- libraries and open content: libraries working with Wikipedia and similar projects
- working with a known community of users
What do you want to learn?
- Local UX and IA groups, libraries
- User Experience, Information Architecture, Interaction Design
- UX skills, perspectives for humanities scholars in the information field
- Everything and anything about UX!
- what's new and what works and how to test to see if it works
- best practices in usability and information architecture
- what skills/credentials are needed to become an employed UX practitioner
- building better reference apps (& defining "reference apps")
- opinions on HCI grad programs vs. ID vs. "teach yourself method."
- How the heck to design a web page so it's clear what to do
- trends in touch interfaces
- thoughts on ux/agile integration
- how people are making new user experiences and leveraging new technologies out there
- information architecture
- IT Management
- Web Project Management
- the crossovers of libraries, archives and museums
- how information capture and sharing can help non-profits
- New and better ways to present data. New and better ways to access data.
- info arch, info design, interaction design, and user research
- How to meet and get to know the people doing cool stuff you might want to do; maintaining personal and professional relationships
Let the community know what topics you'd like to hear about in presentations:
- Data around how different sets of users use the web differently
- How should a startup evaluate, hire, and compensate information professionals, especially web designers and developers
Inspiration
Check out ideas from InfoCamp Seattle 2009 & previous years to get an idea of what's happened at InfoCamp before -- but remember, you don't have to stick to the tried and true. InfoCamp is all about participants deciding what they want to discuss and learn.
You can also start a discussion about your topic idea on Facebook.
