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Business Analyist, User Experience, Front-End Architecture Practice MindMap

Business Analyist, User Experience, Front-End Architecture Practice MindMap

I have been working on a mindMap that illustrates the kinds of activities, research and technologies that me and my co-workers do in our everyday practice. While I realize that this is somewhat specific to our company and the work that we do I thought it would be interesting to get feedback on it. I hope to refine this as we develop the practice.

So if you have anything that you’d like to share, please comment on Flickr.

UX and Community Podcast; How did I miss being in that?

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Jeff Parks puts out a great Podcast called the IA podcast and last week he was at Mesh. So he did a session with a bunch of great people on UX & Community and I wasn’t in it. WHATS UP WITH THAT. Bryce is in it but not me. Well you should go check it out anyway.

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Backcasting: or how I learned to stop predicting and help my clients [Session Audio]

Matthew Milan & Sam Ladner

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Systems Thinking, Rich Mapping and Conceptual Models [Session Audio]

Matt Milan and Gene Smith introduce Rich Mapping and Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) to information architects. SSM is a holistic problem solving framework that can be used to design and model interactions between organizations, people, environments, products and services.

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Project touchstones: how to bridge competing viewpoints and build vision, consensus, and innovation [Session Audio]

Jess’s talk from this years Information Architecture Summit. LukeW took some good notes.

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Other recorded talks from the 2007 IA summit

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Using Search Analytics To Diagnose What’s Ailing Your Information Architecture [Session Audio]

This presentation kicked of the IA Summit this year for me. It is a big topic to get into any real detail in 45 minutes and I’m looking forward to the book.

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We’re witnessing a rapid recognition of the value of search analytics among people from a variety of backgrounds, and we hope that our presentation helps crystallize the discussion within the IA community.

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