This presentation is from a Panel given at the Information Architecture Summit in Memphis, March 2009. Summary of topic:
Information Architects have an opportunity to structure and evolve their own work environment. There is potential to influence where they work, who they work with, the type of work they do and who they do work for. As a freelance IA consultant,
there can be a lot of flexibility, but also a lot of uncertainty. Creating boundaries that help define the work we do and how we do it can be difficult, and these boundaries change as the field changes and as we as IAs mature.
This panel discusses what it is like to create ones own work environment - the motivation for taking this entrepreneurial path, what it has been like, what we’ve learned, the ups and downs of such a work life.
9. UX Strategy & Design
User Research
Branding
Design from the outside in
10. “More high-income workers are
freelancing their way to wealth
through multiple part-time gigs,
changing the way we define a
successful career.”
The Daily Beast, January 2009
http://tinyurl.com/7htdt9
Source: Survey conducted by The Daily Beast and Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates.
Five hundred employed U.S. citizens aged 18 and over were interviewed via the Internet on January 8-9, 2009.
11. Say they have personally felt some
74% impact from the economic crisis
Americans in survey are now
1/3 working either freelance or two jobs
Have taken on additional gigs
45% in the last 6 months
12. “These new alternative workers
are not low-income—they are
college-educated Americans who
earn more than $75,000 a year.”
58. Contact
rice@seneb.com
Sarah A. Rice
whitney@whitneyhess.com
Whitney Hess
jenn@3across.com
Jenn Anderson
chris.fahey@behaviordesign.com
Christopher Fahey
Seneb Consulting
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