Who let the dogs out — IAs getting together at Oz-IA 2007

I often watch my dogs at play and think that, if I got reincarnated, I’d love to be a dog in my next life.

Looking at this year’s line-up at Oz-IA Conference in Sydney I can see that working as an Information Architect at the moment is also lots of fun:

• Ethical issues and information architecture - Donna Maurer
• Designing sites people love - balancing emotion with business reality - Elizabeth Pek & Andy Coffey
• Semantic analysis in IA - me !!
• Exploring multidimensional tagging frameworks - Scott Parsons
• Open your mind - map it! - James Breeze
• Information Architecture of Wikis - James Matheson
• Landing Page Optimisation - Hurol Inan
• “There’s no I in team” – a case study in collaborative information architecture - Patrick Kennedy
• ROI in Information Design: where IA figures in ID - David Sless
• Rise to Play a Greater Part – Delivering Specs in the Bigger Picture - Faruk Avdi
• Analysing Quantitative Data - Steve Baty
• Is length still an issue? - Iain Barker
• Love in an elevator - selling the value of IA to business - Stephen Collins
• User Research in virtual worlds - Gary Bunker & Gabriele Hermansson

IAs work is just so very diverse. We play with IT, business and users; get inside people’s heads and explain how they think; do analysis of superhero proportions that would paralyse mortal man; build taxonomies and information classification systems; work in agile teams in agile environments; play in virtual worlds; ensure you’re going to get good ROI; and even make love in elevators.

Right now, this space is where the fun is

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