Canberra IA Community

The IA Cocktail Hours have been going swimmingly and it’s now time for us to prepare the schedule for the remainder of 2008.

Being a presenter at IA Cocktail Hour is easy. The audience is warm and engaged, there’s plenty of wine and nibbles to keep the crowd happy and you don’t even have to have slides, if you don’t want to.

Each Cocktail Hour typically involves two speakers: one discussing a Method and another discussing a Case Study. There is approximately 1 hour for the two talks in total—after subtracting 30 minutes for socialising & networking time. This usually means 30 minutes per presentation, but the time can be divided amongst the two talks in whatever way the presenters see fit.

What sort of things can you talk about? Anything related to information architecture, user-centred design, usability and the like is welcome. The topic areas for the method talks so far have been pretty broad: from project management to prototyping; from forms design to design consulting. The case studies have been fascinating warts-and-all insights into how such things actually get carried out in the real world. As you can imagine, both the methodology and case study talks have given attendees plenty to think about and discuss. Thank you to all the presenters we have had to date.

For more information about the Hours, see IA Cocktail Hours.

If you are interested in presenting at the Hours, please drop an email to Julie Hale at jhale [at] smsmt [dot] com. The next IA Cocktail Hour is scheduled for Thursday 26 June and we don’t have any presenters yet, so don’t delay!