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Thomas Vander Wal — IA for Web Developers

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• By:Guy Leech
• September 30, 2006
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A pre­sen­ta­tion given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2006.

• MP3 of presentation
• Session descrip­tion
• About Thomas Vander Wal

Session descrip­tion

Thomas will pro­vide an overview of infor­ma­tion archi­tec­ture for web design­ers and devel­op­ers. He will cover the what and why, with a sprin­kling of how. Knowing how to work with an infor­ma­tion archi­tect or how to build the skills into your role will be covered.

About Thomas Vander Wal

Thomas Vander Wal has a broad background in information management, which encompasses information architecture, interaction design, web development and information design. Thomas has 18 years of professional experience in the web and technology sector. He has spoken on information architecture, interaction design, accessibility, web standards, and user-centered design at IA Summit, STC, SXSW, Design Engaged, WebVisions, BayCHI, and various workshops. Thomas helped found Boxes and Arrows and the Information Architecture Institute (Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture), and is currently on the Steering Committee for the Web Standards Project. In 2004 he coined the term Folksonomy and is researching, advising, and developing tagging systems and services. He is the founder and principal of InfoCloud Solutions, Inc., a web consulting and product development firm.

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One response to “Thomas Vander Wal — IA for Web Developers”:

1. • By:Velvet Unravelled » Blog Archive » Thomas Vander Wal - IA for Web Developers WD06 (revisited)
   • October 26th, 2006

   […] Because of the pre­vi­ously men­tioned flaky wire­less on day one at Web Directions south, both Andrew Pantsman Krespanis (in his capac­ity as offi­cial live­blog­ger) and I lost our entries for Thomas’ pre­sen­ta­tion on Information Architecture (IA) for devel­op­ers. I thought I had posted all of what I man­aged to cut and paste into TextEdit, but appar­ently I only put up the lit­tle bit that I had pub­lished at the start of his pre­sen­ta­tion on the day. Unfortunately there’s a big chunk miss­ing from the end where I wrote ques­tions and response. […]

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