Samantha Bailey, the 2009 IA Summit Chair, talks about her approach to this year’s IA Summit, how the Summit community has changed, and what it means to be a part of this community of practice. March 31, 2009
This article discussed the way that eye-tracking studies conducted by the UX team at Westlaw led to a 10% jump in revenue from one of its features, generating $4M in additional revenue. May 2007
Recently Boxes and Arrows caught up with Samantha Bailey, formerly at Argus and current lead IA for Wachovia Corporation's Wachovia.com website. She talks about the transition from being a consultant to an "innie" IA, unravels the mysteries of metadata and taxonomies and shares her vision of the future of IA. April, 2002
Article about the challenges of linking specialized job hunters with employers seeking their unique skills via the Internet. Quotes Samantha Bailey regarding her experiences as VP of Operations at Argus Associates. October 2000
Samantha Bailey discusses IA as a career choice in an article about the rapid growth of the information architecture field. October 2000.
Invited presenter: Day-long professional development workshop presented to the Kent State University IT department’s management staff. Canton, OH; November 2012.
Guest Lecture: Kent State University Information Architecture & Knowledge Management program. Kent, OH; October 2007.
Guest Speaker: Usability Professionals Association Monthly Meeting, Minneapolis MN; February 2006.
Guest Lecture: Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneaplis, MN; October 2005, October 2006.
Guest Lecture: School of Information & Library Science, UNC Chapel Hill; May, 2004.
EM Fest, a Regional Electronic Media Festival, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC; February, 2004.
ASIST IA Summit, Austin, TX; February, 2004.
Case Study: ASIST IA Summit, Portland, OR; March, 2003.
Panelist: ASIST IA Summit, Baltimore, MD; March, 2002.
Presentation for Symmetri, a web design firm based in Greensboro, NC; February, 2002.
Knowledge Managed with Taxonomies Conference, London, UK; January, 2002.
University of Delaware, New Media Initiative Group; March, 2001.
Presented at: IA2000 annual conference, La Jolla, California, October, 2000, New York, New York, January, 2001 and in conjunction with the ASIS&T Practicing Information Architecture Summit, San Francisco, California; February, 2001.
Presented at the American Society of Indexers annual conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico; May, 2000.
University of Indiana Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. Bloomington, IN; March 2000.
University of Michigan School of Information. Ann Arbor, MI, September & October, 1999.
A full-day workshop presented at User Interface Engineering's annual conferences: UIE 2000 (Boston, MA; October, 1999) and UIE 2000 West (San Francisco, CA; April, 2000)
Spring Internet World '98. Los Angeles; March 1998.
Spring Internet World '98. Los Angeles; March 1998.
Internet World Summer '97, Chicago; July 1997.
(Intuitect Product Review) Boxes & Arrows; January 15 2007
Article in Knowledge Management Magazine; February 2002
Guest columnist for Web Review magazine; 1997, Songline Studios, Sebastopol, CA. Web Architect was a column in Songline Studio's Web Review magazine from 1995 to 1999. These articles were recovered using the Wayback Machine. Many links are broken as the publication is now defunct.
Printed as the Internet chapter in Connecting Young Adults and Libraries by Patrick Jones. Neal-Schuman, New York, NY: 1998. pp 333-342.
Paper presented at the Internet Society's annual conference, INET '96, Montreal, Canada; 6/96.
In completing this course students will: Understand where and how IA fits in the broader user experience design and software development process, with particular attention given to Agile and Lean UX. Understand an array of processes, methods, and techniques critical to effective information architecture design and evaluation. Be able to confidently tackle information architecture design challenges. Have the skills to document and communicate your IA work to stakeholders and multidisciplinary team members.
This course provides an introduction to several standard research methods used in the course of user-centered interface design projects, including user profiling, interviewing, diary studies, task analysis, and contextual inquiry/field studies. Topics cover a variety of research methods, practical instruction on applying these methods, instruction regarding how to analyze, prioritize and present research findings and then how to apply these findings to successful interface design prototypes.
O'Reilly Media, Sebastapol CA: 2005
O'Reilly & Associates, Sebastapol, CA: 2002
New Riders Press, Indianapolis IN: 2002
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