This presentation provides highlights into the winning entries from the 2007 Intranet Innovation Awards and provides "lessons learnt" for organizations looking to drive innovation via their intranet.

In this discussion about presence, identity, and attention in social web architecture the panel talks about core IA related issues including: Structure of social sites, tagging and folksonomies, data models for people and their relationships, and navigating in a community site

In this session, Lucas Pettinati, senior interaction designer at Yahoo! draws from his personal experiences in redesigning the Yahoo! registration and account recovery systems.

Jared enlightens and entertains with his keynote address. It now seems the foundations of user-centered design are disintegrating. Notable community members are suggesting UCD practice is burdensome and returns little value.

Peter describes a pattern language for search that explains user psychology and information seek behavior, highlights emerging technologies and interaction models, illustrates repeatable solutions to common problems, and position us all to design better search interfaces and applications.

Matthew argues that fighter pilot and military strategist John Boyd can teach us a great deal about how to understand, interpret and design for human decision making.

In this passionate and entertaining presentation, Eric Reiss talks about the design and execution of a system of activities - people, processes, and technology - that ultimately build brand, revenues, and customer satisfaction.

In his presentation, Nathan Curtis discusses the phases through which a deliverable evolves and why that life cycle is problematic.

Whether you call them personas, characters, or actors, creating an accurate representative profile of your customers is one of the most useful tools in our user experience war chest.

In late January I had the pleasure of attending the VizThink conference in San Francisco. As an Information Architect I wanted to learn how to use different ideas around design to assist me with "big IA" and "little IA" projects.