Design Matters

International Council of Societies of Industrial Design. World Design Congress. October 17-20. 2007. San Francisco. http://www.connecting07.org/

According to Fast Company, although demand for designers is growing, there is a shortage of qualifed designers:
http://www.fastcompany.com/resources/design/lawrence/111506.html

January 22-24, 2007. EIM 2007: Effectively Accessing Information Through Enterprise Search. San Francisco, CA, USA. http://www.eim2007.com/

Enterprise Information Management 2007 brings together the current industry leaders and innovators from Fortune 500 companies that are using enterprise search to improve their overall company performance.

March 24-26, 2007. Preconference workshops March 22-23. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.iasummit.org/2007/

March 8-9, 2007. Sydney, Australia. Led by Peter Morville, co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web and Ambient Findability. http://www.keyforums.com.au

Peter Morville writes today about the past, present, and future of information architecture: “Information Architecture 3.0.”

Second Life, http://secondlife.com/ is a virtual 3D world entirely built and owned by its residents.

There is a new Info Island: http://infoisland.org/about/ (scroll down). There are opportunities to volunteer.

Today on the IA Institute list a member comments that non-profits are using Second Life to  teach, host events, hold meetings, share technologies, and reach out  to their particular audiences.

Are there possibilities for STC?

What is the role of the Enterprise Information Architect? Do we focus strictly on information infrastructure, or become change agents? http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/enterprise

Engineering Interactive Systems 2007. Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain. March 22-24, 2007. http://www.se-hci.org/ehci-hcse-dsvis07/index.html

Joining Three Working Conferences:
FIP WG2.7/13.4 10th Conference on Engineering Human Computer Interaction
IFIP WG 13.2 1st Conference on Human Centred Software Engineering
DSVIS - 14th Conference on Design Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems

Engineering Interactive Systems 2007 is a working conference that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in strengthening the scientific foundations of user interface design, examining the relationship between software engineering and human-computer interaction and on how to strengthen user centred design as an essential part of software engineering process. As a working conference, substantial time is devoted to an open and lively discussion of papers.

Potential papers include: Integration of software engineering and user centred design Software engineering aspects of user interfaces User interface tools and techniques Engineering aspects of innovative user interfaces. Proposal deadline was December 8, 2006. 

STC is inviting technical communicators to serve as judges in STC’s international competitions (technical publications, technical art, or online communication).  Judging in the international competitions provides a unique opportunity to share information with peers, network, and get a marvelous view of the best work that our colleagues are producing.  The deadline to apply is December 1. If you’re interested, the details are here. Read the rest of this entry »