Name: World IA Day with Jared Spool
Start: 2016-02-20T10:30:00-05:00
End: 2016-02-20T13:00:00-05:00
Location: Center Centre

Join us for Chattanooga’s celebration of World Information Architecture Day. We’ll have a workshop on information architecture and Jared Spool will give a presentation. If you haven’t seen Jared speak yet, you’re in for a treat.

We’ll have coffee and mid-morning snacks during the event. Please join us in thanking our sponsor, Skuid (http://www.skuidify.com/), for supporting World IA Day.

What is Information Architecture?

Information architecture (IA) is how we organize everything in a design to help our users find the specific content they’re seeking. IA is a discipline of UX design.

Have you ever struggled to find something on a website, app, or other piece of software? You probably struggled because of a weak information architecture.

IA is all around us. Everyday things like restaurant menus, books, and retail stores have an information architecture. Professionals around the world like Designers, architects, and engineers use IA principles to make information understandable.

Giveaways

Thanks to World IA Day's global sponsors and donors, we'll raffle off several giveaway prizes. We'll give away few copies of Abby Covert's How to Make Sense of Any Mess (http://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Sense-Any-Mess/dp/1500615994). We'll have more giveaways, and we'll share details about giveaways as we get them.

About Our Speaker, Jared Spool

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Jared Spool, co-founder of Center Centre, is one of the most knowledgeable communicators on the subject of user experience (UX) today. He’s the CEO and founding principal of User Interface Engineering (UIE), the largest UX consulting and research organization of its kind in the world.

Jared is a top-rated speaker at more than 20 conferences every year. He’s delivered keynote presentations for events like SXSWi, the Usability Professionals Association, the Information Architecture Summit, UX Australia, UX London, and An Event Apart.

About Our Sponsor, Skuid

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Skuid (http://www.skuidify.com/) lets you quickly assemble a made-to-order app or fully branded portal with clicks instead of code. With drag-and-drop ease, you can assemble user interface components and create just about any user experience you can imagine.

Skuid works with data from leading platforms like Salesforce®, Oracle®, SAP® and Microsoft.® No matter where your data rests, with Skuid, you can make it work for your customers, partners, and employees, delivering the right data in the right format to the right device at the right time.

Founded in 2013, more than 5 million people across 31 countries now enjoy a fantastic user experience with apps and portals assembled with Skuid.

Parking

We recommend using the cash-only surface lot that's directly across the street from Center Centre.

If you use metered street parking, we suggest using the Park Mobile (http://us.parkmobile.com/mobile-apps) app. If you begin the parking session with the app, you can add money to the meter with the app. Metered parking is two-hour parking. The app lets you replenish the meter with your phone instead of having to pay at the physical meter.

There is also a cash-only garage at the Read House Hotel next to Starbucks. It's on the same block as Center Centre. However, we recommend the other parking options above because they are cheaper.

Why are we charging $2 to attend this Meetup?

We are charging $2 to get an accurate head count for the event. We find that when folks pay a modest fee to attend an event, they're more likely to attend. The $2 we collect is non-refundable. It will go toward the cost of running the Meetup group.

Jessica Ivins

Chattanooga UX Design Meetup

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