Hello. I'm Jason Hobbs, a designer, academic, teacher and speaker living mostly in Johannesburg, SA. This site is about my work and the things I do related to design. Have a read, Category Archives for Community
UX South Africa Conference – 2025
Q and A at the end of my presentation The slides for my talk, “Extending the Concept of Information Architecture in Design” presented at UXSA 2025, are now available. Get the Slide Deck(19 MB .pdf file. Sorry about that) Notes … Continue reading
Edit Undo Interview
Back in August 2022, I was interviewed by Edit Undo: “a podcast about all things creative [where] co-hosts Alfi, and Stephanie chat to some fascinating people [like me] in the creative world about their learnings, adventures and their creative craft.” … Continue reading
Contribution to ‘Product’ at the FADA Gallery.
I was invited to share the outcomes of my dissertation at the FADA Gallery exhibition: ‘Product’, in April 2022. The gallery is housed at the University of Johannesburg in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture building. From the invitation: … Continue reading
Abundance by Design
Presentation for UX South Africa, on November 4th, 2020. Building upon a rethinking of complexity, a lack of appropriate design skills is identified as the primary limitation to ideating effective solutions in and for complexity. In this scenario, scarcity prevails. … Continue reading
Re: The Future of Information Architecture.
On the 17th of September 2019 the Information Architecture Institute (IAI) communicated the board’s decision to dissolve the organisation. The communication was entitled: 09/17/2019 – Decision – The future of the IAI and may be found, for now, at: https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=fc57fa0bc131f42aa1b0a2495&id=d0329ea976 … Continue reading
IA Summit 2018
I was happy to deliver a keynote presentation at the IA Summit in Chicago this year entitled ‘Postcards from the Edge’. I have created a big.pdf (101.5 megs) and a small.pdf (5.6 meg) of it containing all the slides with … Continue reading
UXSA Jhb – keynote and workshop
A few weeks back Terence and I conducted a great workshop on developing human centered UX strategy to a mixed crowd of around 30 people. It seemed to go really well and we received great feedback. At the last minute … Continue reading
IA Institute board post
The new board of the IA Institute has just begun its two-year term and I have the good fortune of having been nominated and voted in as the Director of Education. It’s a new, and much needed, position at the … Continue reading
WIAD 2016
Once again, we have hosted World IA Day Johannesburg and, once again, we had a ball. The line up this year included: Sebabatso Mtimkulu, Ray Whitcher, Rob Enslin, Stephen Hobbs, Nicholas Hobson, Lindi Maritz and Rob Cowie. The star of the … Continue reading
UX South Africa Conference
The guys behind the UX SA Conferences have really been doing a great job. For the last few years they’ve been selling out and it’s starting to gain international attention. This year the majority of presentation submissions came from abroad. … Continue reading