UPA Wellington - 1Q 2009 Meeting - Donna Spencer on IA

* When: 12:30-2pm, Thursday 2 April 2009
* Where: Provoke, Level 22, State Insurance Tower (1 Willis St.)
* Who: Anyone (UPA members and non-members)
* Cost: Free!
* RSVP: Not required

Information Architecture Q&A - Donna (Maurer) Spencer

International IA expert Donna Spencer is in town to teach 2 information-architecture courses, so we’ve managed to snag her to do an additional talk for Wellington UPA. (We had to promise to double our usual speaker’s fee.   ;^)

This will be an informal session with Donna talking about a range of information architecture and user experience design issues.

Come along with the questions that have been bugging you, and Donna will share her experience and ask about yours. And if you don’t have a burning question, just come along to listen and learn from one of the stars in our field.

About The Speaker

Donna (Maurer) Spencer is a freelance information architect and interaction designer, a mentor, writer and trainer. She has 9 years experience working in-house and as a consultant doing both strategic and tactical design. She has designed large intranets & websites, e-commerce & search systems, complex business applications, a set of design patterns and a content management system.

She believes deeply in the value of user-centred design and uses a range of user-centred approaches on her projects - from quick analysis of existing research to deep ethnography. She also believes deeply in team-based and iterative design - continually surprising her colleagues by talking to people rather than computers and designing the old-fashioned way with pencil, sticky notes and much coloured paper.

Donna is an experienced speaker who has taught full-day workshops and presented sessions at many local and international conferences, on the topics of information architecture, interaction design and whatever else crosses her mind. She spends her remaining spare time weaving, gardening, working on IAI projects and wriiting a book on card sorting to be published soon by Rosenfeld Media.

Directions

Note the venue change for this meeting!

Provoke’s offices are on Level 22 of the State Insurance Tower (formerly known as the BNZ Tower - the big black building that dominates the skyline), 1 Willis Street, Wellington. The building is situated near the junction of Willis Street, Customhouse Quay and Lambton Quay and can be entered from either Willis Street, Willeston Street or Victoria Street.

Questions, comments? Email Dave O’Brien.

See you there!