Jason Hobbs has contributed to local and international discourse in design, information architecture and related fields since 2006.
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Activity by period
Below is a chronological record of this involvement, including keynote addresses, conference presentations, workshops, panel discussions, interviews, co-authored contributions, and the organisation of academic and practitioner events. Entries are arranged in reverse chronological order and grouped into periods and individual years for easier navigation.
If you would like me to contribute to a conference, roundtable or other event, please email jason@jh-01.com.
2020–Present
2026
IA Roundtable: Polycrisis, Positionality, Hyperlocality, and Information Architecture
Co-organised with Andrea Resmini and Stacy Surla · 14 April 2026
Axioms of a Second Intellectual Culture in Information Architecture
Presentation by J Hobbs
Design Inquiry as a Capability for Transdisciplinary Practice
Presented by T Fenn · Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn · 10 March 2026
Generative, Provocative and Corresponding: Three Creative Design Research Approaches for Inquiry into, and with, User-Communities
Presented by T Fenn · Authors: T Fenn and J Hobbs · 9 March 2026
2025
Extending the Concept of Information Architecture in Design
Presentation by J Hobbs · Watch the presentation
Pedagogic IA/UX: A Southern African Perspective
Presentation by J Hobbs and T Fenn
2024
Design Fiction Graphic Narratives: Designing With Rather Than For Experiences
Presented by T Fenn · Authors: T Fenn and J Hobbs
2022
How We Organise Information in Design and in the World Around Us
Interview with J Hobbs · Watch the interview
2021
Realising Discourse: A Strategic Design Solution to the Problem of Addiction
Remote presentation by J Hobbs
2020
Presentation by J Hobbs · 4 November 2020 · Watch the presentation
One is Enough: A New IA for Recovery in Addiction
Presentation by J Hobbs · 21 February 2020
2015–2019
2019
Big Design: Designing at Scale
Authors: B Lindenfalk, A Resmini, T Fenn and J Hobbs
Designing for Difference: The Turn to Culture
Presentation by J Hobbs · 23 February 2019
2018
Keynote address by J Hobbs
Wicked Ethics in Design
Presentation by J Hobbs
The Art and Science of Information Architecture
Presentation by J Hobbs · 24 February 2018
2017
Features Aren’t Experiences
Presentation by J Hobbs
Human Centered Design and IA
Workshop conducted by J Hobbs, Dan Klyn and T Fenn
2016
Design Thinking Workshops
Conducted by J Hobbs and T Fenn · March, June and July
Designing Sustainable Digital Ontologies
Presentation by J Hobbs and T Fenn · 27 June 2016
Developing Human-Centered UX Strategy
Keynote presentation by J Hobbs
Developing Human-Centered UX Strategy
Workshop conducted by J Hobbs and T Fenn
The State of Information Architecture
Presentation by J Hobbs · February 2016
2015
Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn
The Firma Model: A Tool for Resolving Complex Societal Problems
Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn
The UX Landscape of South Africa
Authors: J Hobbs, M Pretorius and T Fenn
Presentation by J Hobbs
Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn
The Application of the Firma Model
Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn
The Design Behind the Design Behind the Design
Presentation by J Hobbs
The Firma Model: A Meta-Framework for Design Research, Strategy and Critique
Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn
Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn
Presentation by J Hobbs
Information Architecture Today
Presentation by J Hobbs · 21 February 2015
2010–2014
2014
Presentation by J Hobbs
Plenary presentation by J Hobbs
The Design Behind the Design Behind the Design
Presentation by J Hobbs
Teaching Information Architecture
Roundtable co-organised and co-chaired with T Fenn · 27 March 2014
Information Architecture Thinking
Presentation by J Hobbs and T Fenn
Information Architecture and Everything Else
Presentation by J Hobbs
2013
Navigating Indeterminacy Through the Application of Journey Design
Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn
The Structure of Problems
Presentation by J Hobbs
Reframing Wicked Problems
Presentation by J Hobbs
Navigating Indeterminacy Through the Application of Journey Design
Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn
Reframe IA: The Information Architecture of Meaning Making
Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn
Reframing IA: A Case Study from the Johannesburg Art Gallery
Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn · 9 February 2013
2012
The Human Experience Design of the Johannesburg Art Gallery
Presentation by J Hobbs
The Information Architecture of Transdisciplinary Design Practice: Rethinking Nathan Shedroff’s Continuum of Understanding
Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn
Pervasive IA as Architectures of Meaning for Complex Cross-Channel Systems
Coordinators: J Hobbs, T Fenn and A Resmini
Reframing Information Architecture: A Case Study from the Johannesburg Art Gallery
Presentation by J Hobbs
What Is IA and Why Does It Matter?
Presentation by J Hobbs · 11 February 2012
2011
Teaching Design Thinking
Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn
A Role for Information Architecture in Design Education: Conceptualising Indeterminate Problems in Design Thinking
Authors: J Hobbs and T Fenn
2010
The Door, the Wind, the Bird and the Valise
Opening keynote by J Hobbs
The Door, the Wind, the Bird and the Valise
Presentation by J Hobbs
Multi-Channel Journey Design
Conference workshop
IA and Social Media
Panel discussion
2006–2009
2009
Practice-Led Research in the Field of UXD: Report from the 2009 EuroIA Summit
Presentation by J Hobbs
From Enterprise IA to Enterprise UX: Creating a UX Framework for a (Big) Bank
Authors: J Hobbs and Reynhardt Uys
IA Jam
Panel discussion
2008
Communal Computing and Shared Spaces of Usage: A Study of Internet Cafés in Developing Contexts
Presentation by J Hobbs
An Introduction to UX
Presentation by J Hobbs
Presentation by J Hobbs
Hotel Yeoville: Home and Away
Presentation by J Hobbs
2007
Digital Africa
Panel discussion
Communal Computing and Shared Spaces of Usage: A Study of Internet Cafés in Developing Contexts
Presentation by J Hobbs
Annals of Experience: Hacking It Alone or the Importance of Being Mercenary
Presentation by J Hobbs
The Greater Good SA 2.0
Authors: J Hobbs, Tamzin Ractliff and Alan Austen
2006
How Can Information Architecture Address Challenges to the Web in Third World and Developing Contexts?
Presentation by J Hobbs