Upping your game: Five things IAs need to talk about more
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Learning how to do information architecture holistically is damn hard, and standard IA conferences and books often don’t deliver so much as they repeat the same tired old saws. How’s a sophomore IA to learn and improve their practice in this echo chamber? By challenging ourselves to explore disciplines outside of IA. We’ll talk about just a few of the disciplines we can draw insight and wisdom from. We’ll learn why it’s important to make sure our findings are statistically valid, how a passion for literature translates into better communication skills, and why we should take psychology, business and relationships as seriously as we take IA. Finally, we’ll examine real-life examples of how going outside of our comfort zone can help us produce our strongest, most innovative, and best work.
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Upping your game: Five things IAs need to talk about more
- 1. Upping your game: Five Things IAs Need To Talk About More Leanna Gingras - @leegoesplaces #ias11 #upyrgame "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." - Robert Heinlein @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 2. My background My problem Five disciplines that have helped me up my game: Statistics Business Psychology Narrative fiction Interpersonal relations What's been helpful for you? @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 3. Flickr user donhomer @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 10. Why? @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 11. Maybe it's just me. @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 12. Maybe IAs aren't talking to each other about non-IA topics. @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 13. Maybe conferences deliberately keep it simple. @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 14. So what should we do? @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 15. Here are five disciplines that have helped me up my game as a practitioner! @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 16. #1 STATISTICS I upped my game from generating charts to transforming data and doing analysis. @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 20. Original image from http://www.technotraits.com/2008/09/awsome-tips-to-effectively-use-ms-excel-2007/ @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 21. http://www.activewin.com/reviews/previews/office10/Images/xlgraph.jpg @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 26. Up your game! Use statistics make sure that your data is right, and that your data is telling the story you claim it's telling. @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 27. #2 BUSINESS SKILLS I upped my game by learning how to make alliances and get things done in a big organization. @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 28. My story @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 32. Flickr user ctbto @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 35. Up your game! Use business savvy to get buy-in early on in the project, anticipate blocks and remove them. @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 36. #3 PSYCHOLOGY I upped my game by learning how people think straight from the source: actual psychology studies. @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 41. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20030550-93.html @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 43. http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~ajordan/papers/Jordan%20et%20al.%20(2011)%20- %20Misery%20Has%20More%20Company.pdf @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 46. Up your game! Use primary-source psychology to learn how to better study humans and design for humans. @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 47. #4 NARRATIVE FICTION I upped my game by polishing my writing, plotting, and planning skills. @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 51. GRE analytical reasoning scores 2006-2009 Data from ETS (pdf) @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 52. Data from ETS (pdf) @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 55. Flickr user: Beth77 @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 56. http://jonny.snsy.de/?p=372 @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 57. http://sampottsinc.com/ij/ http://sampottsinc.com/ij/ @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 59. Up your game! Read narrative fiction to learn different ways of communicating ideas effectively. @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 60. #5 INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS I upped my game by using trust and respect to build an effective work environment. @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 61. @leegoesplaces /media.photobucket.com/image/burn%20bridge/constitutionman/DeweyBridgeApr72008.jpg #upyrgame #ias11
- 66. Flickr user: caveman92223 @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 67. Up your game! Understanding interpersonal relations and cultivating trust is essential to getting our job done. @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 68. 1. Statistics 2. Business 3. Psychology 4. Narrative fiction 5. Interpersonal relations @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 70. Now share your experiences with me. @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11
- 71. Thank you! I hope you all start looking for inspiration everywhere, not just in these 5 fields. Check out my #upyrgame reading list: http://tinyurl.com/upyrgame Leanna Gingras @leegoesplaces http://www.usabilityfail.com @leegoesplaces #upyrgame #ias11