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  • Asian Consortium: Hong Kong

    The Asian Consortium, part of the Hong Kong 10DAYFEST from the Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation, was a great success.

    Brief overview: “140 social innovators from all over Asia came to Hong Kong to channel their ideas of social innovation. Founders of social enterprises, start-ups and leaders in academia from 20 countries, more than 25 nationalities have shared their latest projects in the Network Conference, opened the “Living room by Asian Consortium” exhibition, networked in Changemakers Party and joined the local Excursion to experience social challenges in Hong Kong and explore ways to promote social innovation movements here” – view the photo gallery.

    Loads more content can be found at Socia.hk

    Myself and Terence produced a poster for the “Living room” exhibition through our new company Firma which you can download here in either A3 format or A0 format.

    I also had the opportunity to present a bit about Firma and our work. You can view a round up of the trip and the presentation on slideshare.

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    Above: The incredible Zaha Hadid building where the Institute is situated.

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    Above: Cool signage

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    Above: Inside the building

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    Above: Me presenting on Firma

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    Above: Prepping our poster for the exhibition

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    Above: The mesmerising Hong Kong

  • Tokyo round-up: UX Strategy Forum (Sociomedia), Metaphase workshop and IA Camp

    The incredible folks at Sociomedia brought me to Japan (along with Dan Klyn and Peter Morville) to participate in the UX Strategy Forum for Summer 2015.

    Outside of Tokyo being utterly mind-blowing (the people, the city, the culture) the conference was superb as well. On the first day I presented my work on the Firma Model and on the second, the application of the Model (all work I’ve been doing with Terence Fenn).

    Below: Me presenting the Firma Model on day 1 on UXSF, Dan and Peter and myself (plugged in) with the Sociomedia team

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    Prior to the conference however I had the privilege of conducting a workshop on the use of the Firma Model with staff from Metaphase (one of the sponsors of UXSF). This was particularly interesting as 1. I’ve never conducted a workshop using the Firma Model and 2. I’ve never done it in Japanese. I got really great feedback and the work by the Metaphase folks was amazing.

    Below: My workshop with the Metaphase team

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    Lastly, I was also able to speak at the Tokyo IA Camp organised by Concent. Soyeon Lee had translated my piece “The design behind the design behind the design” into Japanese so I figured it would be good to present that…for two gruelling hours.

    Below: IA Camp, Tokyo

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    So all in all it was really hard work and really great fun. And what a country! I would give anything to go back again. I discovered some of the nicest people in our field and we were treated like royalty. All round, it was amazing.

    Below: View from my hotel ala ‘Lost in Translation’

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  • Update: UX Johannesburg

    Okay, so this was one amazing event. The folks at uxsouthafrica did a sterling job of putting on their second national conference with even larger attendance than Cape Town last year.

    Here are the details of the of the event

    …and you can watch Terence and I deliver our presentation on the Firma Model on youtube.

    Below: Terence at the steps of SciBono where the conference was held and a sunset view from the venue over Newtown.

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  • See you at UX Johannesburg

    Terence and I will be speaking at UX Johannesburg at 10.15am on day 1, Thursday the 14th of May. Topic: The Firma Model – a meta-framework for research, strategy and design.

  • Johannesburg WIAD 2015

    Myself, Terence Fenn, Tasmin Donaldson and Kat Roderick put the Jhb WIAD 2015 event on at the University of Johannesburg for the fourth year running on the 21st of Feb. We had a great time and we’ve had amazing feedback.

    Speakers included: Prof. Federico Freschi (Executive Dean, FADA, UJ), Farai Madzima (Freethinking), Joelle Bataille (Native), Marcel Rossouw (Fjord), Jacqueline Fouche (Standard Bank), Jhono Bennett (1to1 – Agency of Engagement), Kgothatso (KG) Lephoko (UJ Multimedia Design student), and Rishal Hurbans (Entelect).

    And thanks to our sponsors who included BSG (gold), Entelect (silver) and Freethinking (silver)

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  • ‘Features aren’t experiences’ at UX Joburg

    I had a great time last Saturday speaking at UX Joburg in Braamfontein. The presentation was on the topic of ‘Features aren’t experiences’. Thanks to the folks from ThoughtWorks for hosting.  The presentation is now up on slideshare.

    (photos by Tasmin Donaldson)

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  • D3: the design behind the design behind the design

    Last year at the IA Summit in San Diego I gave my D3 presentation. It was pretty dense and without good notes (on slideshare) hard to follow. I’ve been working on a visual essay version of it and it’s finally complete. View the presentation here.

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  • EuroIA, Brussels

    Well I’ve just returned from Brussels having presented my plenary on ‘Designing for the liminal’. What a great conference and what great people. I’m one of the co-chairs for the Summit next year to be held in Madrid. Wish me luck! Loads of work ahead…

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  • Annual of IA: 2012 / 2013

    Around the end of Q1 next year the first edition of the Annual of Information Architecture will be released. Andrea and I are behind this and we plan for it to be amazing.

    Take a look at the site and submit works you believe should be included. If you feel like helping us bring it to life we’re accepting all the help we can get.

    Tell your friends…

  • Reframe IA

    I just received word that the paper Terence Fenn and I submitted for the ‘Reframe IA’ workshop has been accepted. It’ll be held in Baltimore at this years IA Summit.

    There are two reasons why this is important:

    1. The Summit has traditionally been a practitioner-oriented event without much emphasis on the academic / theory side of things. I have written (with Andrea Resmini and Terence) about the problem with this in the Journal of IA piece “Maturing a Practice”. To have a full-day academic workshop at the conference is a big step forward.

    2. Both the world and IA have moved on but the dominant voices, publications, conferences and opinions in the field have not. The desire behind the workshop to reposition IA is overdue, vitally important and really exciting. Equally important is that the output won’t be based on opinion but a rigorous, double-blind peer review process based on validated arguments.

    The proceedings will be published and as soon as they are I’ll post a link.