InfoCamp Seattle 2010/Topics
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Since InfoCamp is an unconference, we won't know exactly what topics will be covered until the event actually starts! Participants will sign up to lead sessions during the weekend. As a 2009 InfoCamper said,
- "I like that none of the speakers or session topics are decided in advance. It's risky but fun! The variety was amazing and it's great to see people get brave at the last minute, get on stage, and propose something."
You can create sessions on any topic related to information, from any perspective. All we ask is that you don't use session time to sell a product or service.
Find much more about sessions on the Format & Sessions page of this wiki.
What do you want to talk about? (What sessions might you lead?)
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- A Consultant Wants Some REAL Feedback: On The Redesign of Bluetooth.com and .org: I recently had the opportunity to do the information architecture work for a redesign of the Bluetooth.com and Bluetooth.org sites. Working as a consultant, I rarely get feedback from other UX'ers on my work. Of course, the client can tell me what he/she wants, but what does someone in my field think of my work? In this session, come find out about the business problem, see my work from site map to paper sketching to wireframes and then evaluate my work. In the session, you can comment out loud (the best for discussion purposes) and I'll have the wireframes printed and you can write comments on post-its, you can comment on comment cards (which I'll provide). This will also give you an opportunity to see some actual work (which we rarely share with each other - why is that?). -- Theresa Putkey, www.keypointe.ca, tputkey at keypointe dot ca
- Remote Usability Testing tools are growing like weeds: Usertesting.com, OpenHallway, Nurago...the list goes on (http://www.slideshare.net/usableinterface/bostin-upa-conferhandout). At this point there are almost too many to count, let alone evaluate, so let's compare notes & learn from each others' experiences -- costs, results and benefits of various tools. --Kathryn Whitenton
- Information Wants To Be Chunky: The easiest thing in the world is to take a large category of flat items, add a handful of categories, enable folksonomy tagging, and dust your hands calling it good. But information wants to be chunky. There's a relationship between items at all different levels of detail that cut across categories, tags, and items, and cluster around concepts. Think The Wizard of Oz as a work of fiction compared to The Wizard of Oz as 500 different editions, each of them with a different ISBN, created across many printings. Think of Oz as an entry in another volume, criticism of Oz, a biography of L. Frank Baum, and the derivative work Wicked, a book and a musical and audio recordings. Chunking information involves representing in data structures the way in which people think about the coagulation of concepts. --Glenn Fleishman
- Search Advertising and Money: I'll talk about some practical aspects of search advertising: 1) the vickrey auction, 2) click fraud, and 3) arbitrage. --Jeff Huang
- Content Strategists - Where the heck do they belong within an organization? --Vanessa Casavant
- Broadband initiatives and the relationships to local communities in infrastructure planning and development of communications --Marc Pease
- Curriculum maps & curriculum apps: database and interface design to help students, teachers, and parents share progress in learning --Sean Fullerton
- Getting started with EIA and taxonomy, structured authoring for authors who are not technical communicators --Julia Pond
- Digital asset management for creative agencies --Tracy Guza
- How rich interactive prototyping fits into your process. Or how it facilitates a more agile and iterative process. --Josh Chaney
- I might want to present on some UI ideas I've had, or showcase a couple of projects I've been trying to get built. --Hoby Van Hoose
- Slow tech: morphing our information consumption so it's of a lower volume, but higher quality. --Ario Jafarzadeh
- A tools discussion always seems to be popular (Balsamiq vs. Axure vs. Visio etc.) --Elly Searle
- News is broken, lets fix it! --Frank Fani
- Designing Awesomeness: What is awesomeness? What makes some things awesome? When we set out to intentionally design something that will blow our users' minds, where do we start? This session will explore why we humans crave intense emotional experiences, why we who design user experiences should be creating awe-inspiring moments for our users, and how we can go about creating awesomeness reliably. --Aaron Louie
- Design Principles and Critique Applied to UX: Are we putting a critical enough eye on our work? Many UX people have little to no traditional design studio experience with critique. This session would introduce basic principles and elements of design, the critique process, and how to both give and take meaningful, thoughtful design critique in order to improve your UX work. --Katey Deeny
- Taxonomies 101 and any other Taxonomy deep dives that come out of that. --Erica Chao
- Comments Gone Wild: Trolls, Flame Wars, and the Crisis in Comments at Online Newspapers: Issues involved with identity and reputation online, including methods to discourage or submerge trolling and flame wars in newspaper web site comment threads, with concern about the tradeoff of preserving anonymity/pseudonymity, and a call for future research in both UX/systems design and sociological research. --Dan Turner
- Mobile IA --Nick Finck
- SEO 101 for IAs --Jonathon Colman
- Why SEO and UX are Like Peas and Carrots --Jonathon Colman
- RDFa for Rich Snippets in Search Results --Jonathon Colman
- Using Google apps for student learning portfolios at the University of Washington --Amanda Hornby
- I'd love to do a session on how social networks could potentially change SEM, how geolocation is forcing brands to be more relevant or how brands in Seattle are using social media -- Erica May
- Curation: Making cool stuff by combining content like Legos. Or pieces from a museum collection. Whatever you want to call it, how can we do it well? -- James Callan
- Bibliographic instruction in the cloud, information literacy, access to information resources, accessibility for the differently abled --Michael Lane
- thewildernessdowntown.com could potentially inspire a session. It could be a discussion about the evolution of mashups or the privacy implications? --Electra Enslow
- Your idea here!
What do you want to learn? (What sessions do you want someone else to lead?)
Let the community know what topics you'd like to hear about in InfoCamp sessions:
- User experience 101
- Service design
- Google Books
- WikiLeaks
- Assessment tools/methods
- Ubiquitous computing & information gathering with sensors
- Your idea here!
Wondering what topics were discussed in previous years?
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