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, Conferences & Events
Below is a list of conferences both local and international that I’ve either participated in or spoken at. It’s also a mix of academic and practitioner / community of practice events.
2019, Academy for Design Innovation Management Conference, London, UK
“Big Design: Designing at Scale” (By B Lindenfalk, A Resmini, T Fenn and J Hobbs)
2018, IA SUMMIT. CHICAGO, IL. USA
Keynote address
2017, IXD Maputo, Mozambique
“Features aren’t Experiences
2017, IA Summit, Vancouver, Canada 2017
“Human Centered Design and IA” (Workshop conducted by J Hobbs, Dan Klyn and T Fenn)
2016, Museum of African Design, Johannesburg
Design Thinking Workshops – March / June / July (By J Hobbs and T Fenn)
2016, UX South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
“Developing human-centered UX strategy” (Keynote presentation by J Hobbs)
“Developing human-centered UX strategy” (Workshop conducted by J Hobbs and T Fenn)
2015, DEFSA, Johannesburg, South Africa
“Wicked Ethics in Design” (Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn)
“The Firma Model: A Tool for Resolving Complex Societal Problems” (Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn)
2015, UX South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
“The UX Landscape of South Africa” (Authors: J Hobbs, M Pretorius, T Fenn)
2015, Asian Consortium, Hong Kong, China
“About us:” (Author: J Hobbs)
2015, UX Strategy Forum, Tokyo, Japan
“The Firma Model” (Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn)
“The Application of the Firma Model” (Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn)
2015, Summer IA Camp, Tokyo, Japan
“The Design Behind the Design Behind the Design” (Author: J Hobbs)
2015, Cumulus Conference, Milan, Italy
“The Firma Model: A Meta-Framework for Design Research, Strategy and Critique” (Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn)
2015, UX South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
“The Firma Model” (Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn)
2015, UX Joburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
“Features aren’t experiences” (Author: J Hobbs)
2014, UX SA, Cape Town, South Africa
“Designing for the liminal” (Author: J Hobbs)
2014, EuroIA Summit, Brussels, Belgium
“Designing for the liminal” (Plenary presentation. Author: J Hobbs)
2014, IA Summit, San Diego, California, USA
“The design behind the design behind the design” (Author: J Hobbs)
2014, IA Summit, San Diego, California, USA
“The 2nd Academics and Practitioners Round Table: Teaching IA” (Workshop conducted by J Hobbs and T Fenn)
2014, World IA Day, Bristol, UK
“Information architecture and everything else” (Author: J Hobbs)
2013, Bristol Usability Day, Bristol, UK
“Navigating indeterminacy through the application of journey design” (Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn)
2013, Web Managers Meet-up, London, UK
“The structure of problems” (Author: J Hobbs)
2013, Bristol Usability Group Meet-up, Bristol, UK
“Reframing wicked problems” (Author: J Hobbs)
2013, Design Development Research Conference, Kumasi, Ghana
“Navigating indeterminacy through the application of journey design” (Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn)
2013, IA Summit, Baltimore, USA
“Reframe IA: The Information Architecture of Meaning Making” (Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn)
2013, World IA Day, Johannesburg, SA
“Reframing IA: A Casestudy from the Johannesburg Art Gallery” (Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn)
2012 PUBLIC ACCESS: Public Art Conference, Johannesburg, SA
“The human experience design of the Johannesburg Art Gallery” (Author: J Hobbs)
2012 Design Development Research, University of Western Cape, Cape Town, SA
“The information architecture of transdisciplinary design practice: rethinking Nathan Shedroff’s Continuum of Understanding” (Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn)
2012 Pervasive 2012, Newcastle, England.
“Pervasive IA as architectures of meaning for complex cross-channel systems” (Coordinators: J Hobbs, T Fenn, A Resmini)
2012 Polish IA Summit, Warsaw, Poland
“Reframing IA” (author: J Hobbs)
2011 Euro IA Summit, Prague, Czech Republic
“Teaching design thinking” (authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn)
2011 Design Education Forum South Africa, Johannesburg, SA
“A role for information architecture in design education: Conceptualising indeterminate problems in design thinking” (authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn)
2010 Italian IA Summit, Pisa.
“The Door, The Wind, The Bird and the Valise” (author: Jason Hobbs, opening key note address)
2010 IA Konferenz, Koln, Germany
“The Door, The Wind, The Bird and the Valise” (author: Jason Hobbs)
2010 IA Konferenz, Koln, Germany. Conference workshop
“Multi-channel Journey Design”
2010 Euro IA Summit, Paris, France.
“IA and Social Media” (Panel discussion)
2009 PLR Colloquium, Johannesburg, SA
“Practice-Led Research in the field of UXD: Report from the 2009 Euro IA Summit” (author: Jason Hobbs)
2009 Euro IA Summit, Copenhagen, Denmark
“From Enterprise IA to Enterprise UX: Creating a UX Framework for a (Big) Bank” (authors: Jason Hobbs and Reynhardt Uys)
2009 Euro IA Summit, Copenhagen, Denmark
Panelist on the IA Jam.
2008: 27 Dinner, Johannesburg, SA
“Communal Computing and Shared Spaces of Usage: A Study of Internet Cafés in Developing Contexts” (author: Jason Hobbs)
2008: 27 Dinner, Johannesburg, SA
“An introduction to UX” (author: Jason Hobbs)
2008: IA Summit, Miami, Florida, USA
“Hotel Yeoville: Home and away” (author: Jason Hobbs)
2008: IA Summit, Second Life
“Hotel Yeoville: Home and away” (author: Jason Hobbs)
2007: Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent. Johannesburg Art Gallery, SA
Africa Remix Panel Discussion on Digital Africa
2007: IA Summit, Las Vegas, USA
“Communal Computing and Shared Spaces of Usage: A Study of Internet Cafés in Developing Contexts” (author: Jason Hobbs)
2007: IA Summit, Las Vegas, USA
“Annals of Experience: Hacking It Alone or the Importance of Being Mercenary” (author: Jason Hobbs)
2007: Sangonet Conference, Johannesburg, SA
“The Greater Good SA 2.0” (authors: Jason Hobbs, Tamzin Ractliff, Alan Austen)
2006: IA Summit, Vancouver, Canada
“How Can Information Architecture Address Challenges To the Web In Third World And Developing Contexts” (author: Jason Hobbs)