Mar 30, 2022

Issue #5: Wrapping up World IA Day 2022

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Welcome back and hello to all the new subscribers! This month everything is about World IA Day.

World IA Day 2022 took place on March 5, 2022 with some local events taking place about a week before and after that date. WIAD 2022 took place in nearly 30 locations with people joining from all over the world.

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The War in Ukraine is the Antipode to a Connected World

War leads to disconnecting people from each other. The power of connections is what can give us a little bit of hope.

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WIAD22 Global Keynote: Architecting A Connected World

The global keynote is now available with subtitles in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Farsi, Chinese, and Japanese. Arabic will be available soon.

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From our Community Partners:

IAC22 Registration – Open until April 10

The 2022 IAC: the information architecture conference is back from April 18th – 23rd. Join the annual conference to [Re]Connect as a community of practitioners.

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24 Hours of UX – Call for Communities

24 hours of live UX content from local experts from around the world on June 8th 2022. Apply as a local grassroots community and feature your own speakers.

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Resources and Development in the Community

Noreen Whysel writes about “Designing Respectful Tech: What is your relationship with technology?” in Boxes and Arrows (February 2022)
Paul Boag shares the basics of mental models, card sorting, and tree testing in this Smashing Magazine, “How To Create An Information Architecture That Is Easy to Use” (March 2022)
Optimal Workshop conducts a case study on the US Library of Congress classification system using Treejack (March 2022).
Michael Dangermond and Emily Meriam walk through their mapmaking process to define conurbations, urban areas that are joined together but have their separate identities, in The world’s most populated and greenest megacities (and how we found out) (Esri, March 2022)

If you know of any other events, programs, and worthwhile resources for information architecture, please let us know or email newsletter@worldiaday.org.

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