Thomas Vander Wal - IA for Web Developers
A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2006.
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.
Velvet Unravelled » Blog Archive » Thomas Vander Wal - IA for Web Developers WD06 (revisited) October 26th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
[...] 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. [...]