The IA Cocktail Hour unorganisers are taking a winter break. This means there will be no IA Cocktail Hour on Thursday 25 June.
The next IA Cocktail Hour will be on Thursday 23 July. Topic will be announced shortly.
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The next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is Thursday 28 May 2009.
David More is an information, experience and design consultant currently working for Optimal Experience but with many, many IA and user-centred design projects under his belt. 
In this IA Canberra meeting, David will be leading a discussion on mentoring and development for in-house IA/UX/UI teams. Prompted by David’s analysis, insight and examples, this will be a great opportunity to find out what others have found works (and doesn’t work) as well as sharing your ideas and stories.
We also hope you’ll join us for an informal dinner somewhere in Dickson afterwards.
Start Time: 17:20 for 17:30 (please come on time - the door is automatically locked at 17:30)
Finish Time: 19:00
Day/Date: Thursday 28 May 2009
Venue: Ipsos-Eureka Social Research Institute
Level 1
55 Woolley Street (above Zefferelli’s)
Dickson
Please RSVP to [facibus AT gmail DOT com] as soon as possible for catering purposes.
The next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is Thursday 23 April 2009.
For this meeting, Donna Maurer will share ideas about designing for different information behaviours. When people use websites and intranets they are doing more than just ‘finding’ information. They may be looking for something they know about or exploring something brand new; filtering through large volumes then comparing results; getting an overview of a topic or diving deep. They may even think they want to find one thing, but actually need something entirely different. Each of these information behaviours needs very different approaches to information architecture, information design and page layout.
Donna recently returned from attending and presenting at SXSW Interactive and IA Summit, and will shortly depart for UX London. This is your chance to get some of her world-famous IA insights right here in little ‘ol Canberra.
Time: 17:30-19:00
Day/Date: Thursday 23 April 2009
Venue: Stamford Interactive
Level 1
301 Canberra Avenue (right near Officeworks)
Fyshwick
Please RSVP to [facibus AT gmail DOT com] as soon as possible for catering purposes.
We also hope you’ll join us for an informal dinner somewhere in Kingston/Manuka afterwards.
The next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is Thursday 26 March 2009.
This meeting will be the first ever delivery of a engaging new presentation from Formulate Information Design, on the principles of visual perception and their relationship to electronic forms.
Come and learn about the ways we humans see, and how this knowledge can be used to help electronic forms communicate visually (and subconsciously) to users.
We also hope you’ll join us for an informal dinner somewhere in Dickson afterwards.
Time: 17:30-19:00 (door is locked from 18:00)
Day/Date: Thursday 26 March 2009
Venue: Ipsos-Eureka Social Research Institute
Level 1
55 Woolley Street (above Zefferelli’s)
Dickson
Please RSVP to [facibus AT gmail DOT com] as soon as possible for catering purposes.
The next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is Thursday 22 January 2009.
Jessica Enders, Principal of Formulate Information Design, is going to take us on a fascinating journey of memory, cognition, language and sociology, exploring the hidden complexity behind writing a good question. This will be a dry run of a completely new talk being presented in the United States later in the year, so the more (feedback) the merrier.
We also hope you’ll join us for an informal dinner somewhere in Dickson afterwards.
Time: 17:30-19:00
Day/Date: Thursday 22 January 2009
Venue: Ipsos-Eureka Social Research Institute
Level 1
55 Woolley Street (above Zefferelli’s)
Dickson
Please RSVP to [facibus AT gmail DOT com] as soon as possible for catering purposes.
IA Cocktail Hour was a smash hit in 2008—well, at least those who attended got a lot out of it—and we’re looking forward to an even better year this year.
The schedule for the IA Cocktail Hours for 2009 is below. (For more information about the hours—e.g. locations and times—see IA Cocktail Hour.)
As you can see, there are plenty of empty slots just waiting for eager IAs/designers/developers/geeks/smart people willing to share their ideas and learnings with our friendly and interested group. If you’re interested in presenting, however formally or informally, please contact Andrew Boyd via facibus [at] gmail [dot] com.
| Date | Topic(s) | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Jan | Questioning questions by Jessica Enders (Formulate Information Design) |
Ipsos-Eureka |
| 26 Feb | Making sense of complex documents by Nathan McDonald (Mustor Institute) |
Stamford Interactive |
| 26 Mar | Visual design principles for electronic forms by Jessica Enders (Formulate Information Design) |
Ipsos-Eureka |
| 23 Apr | Communicating IA by Donna Spencer (Maadmob) |
Stamford Interactive |
| 28 May | Mentoring and development for in-house IA/UX/UI teams by David More (Optimal Experience) |
Ipsos-Eureka |
| 25 Jun | No IA Cocktail Hour (Winter break) | |
| 23 Jul | Group discussion: “Should I stay or should I go now? Dealing with doomed projects or clients” plus The future of IA Cocktail Hour/IAI Chapter meetings |
Stamford Interactive |
| 27 Aug | No IA Cocktail Hour (UX Australia) | |
| 24 Sept | Mining and Centralising the Knowledge of Your Own People by Stephen Holmes | Ipsos-Eureka |
| 22 Oct | No topic yet - maybe you? | Stamford Interactive |
| 26 Nov | No topic yet - maybe you? | Ipsos-Eureka |
The next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is Thursday 23 October 2008.
This will be the final presentation-based Cocktail Hour for the year, so make sure you come along to see Dean Klemick give an interactive demonstration of an exciting quantitative analysis tool, using the results from the 2007 ‘A List Apart’ survey.
We also hope you’ll join us for an informal dinner somewhere in Dickson afterwards.
Time: 17:30-19:00
Day/Date: Thursday 23 October 2008
Venue: Ipsos-Eureka Social Research Institute
Level 1
55 Woolley Street (above Zefferelli’s)
Dickson
Please RSVP to [facibus AT gmail DOT com] as soon as possible for catering purposes.
The next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is Thursday 2 October 2008. We are delighted to have Nathan McDonald, Service Director of the Mustor Institute, coming down from Sydney especially to speak to us.
The Mustor Institute works hard to make the complex world of regulation, business, contracts etc accessible for, and understandable by, all through their novel “Regulatory DNA (MIS 1000)” approach. This system for navigating through these difficult domains has been described as “revolutionary” and “one of the most exciting developments”.
Nathan will demonstrate the clarity and simplicity provided by the DNA method using examples such as:
- NSW Building Industry payment regulations;
- Austrac Anti Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing (AML/CTF) regulations;
- Australian Department of Defence contracts; and
- Australian Taxation Office regulations.
The session aims to be interactive and practical, so we want you to submit examples of the legal texts that you have to work with (e.g. contracts, policies, regulations and agreements). Nathan will use these as an exercise and point of discussion. Send your examples, preferably in Word or RTF format, to jessica [at] formulate [dot] com [dot] au by close of business on Monday 1 October.
Join us for what’s guaranteed to be a thought-provoking and fascinating meeting. You’re also welcome to come for an informal dinner afterwards in Manuka/Kingston.
Time: 17:30-19:00
Day/Date: Thursday 2 October 2008
Venue: Stamford Interactive
Level 1
301 Canberra Avenue (right near Officeworks)
Fyshwick
Please RSVP to [facibus AT gmail DOT com] as soon as possible for catering purposes.
Usually we have our Canberra IA Cocktail Hours on the 4th Thursday of the month. This would make the next IA Cocktail Hour on 25 September.
However, Web Directions South is on 23 - 26 September, and a lot of the IA Canberra crew are going to be away.
So, the next IA Cocktail Hour will be on Thursday 2 October.
A formal meeting invitation, with the details of the topic and location, will be issued closer to the date, so watch this space.
The next Canberra IA Cocktail Hour is on Thursday 28 August 2008.
Come along and get a sneak preview of Ruth Ellison’s talk for Web Directions on integrating accessibility into design. Ruth is a Senior Consultant at Stamford Interactive.
You’re also invited to an informal dinner in Dickson afterwards.
Time: 17:30-19:00
Day/Date: Thursday 28 August 2008
Venue: Ipsos-Eureka Social Research Institute
Level 1
55 Woolley Street (above Zefferelli’s)
Dickson
Please RSVP to [facibus AT gmail DOT com] as soon as possible for catering purposes.
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