Copenhagen, Denmark
Born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1954, and raised in St. Louis and Chicago, Eric holds degrees in Political Science and Performing Arts from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1976, He moved to Denmark to accept a position as a stage director at the Danish Royal Theatre in Copenhagen.
Eric has been a full-time writer and business strategist since 1984. The past decade, he has conducted workshops and lectured on a range of web issues for colleagues, client companies, and at teaching institutions, including the Copenhagen Business School and the National School of Journalism. He is also one of the instigators of the IA Slam and author of Web Dogma ’06.
In November, 2000, Eric's book, Practical Information Architecture was published by Pearson Education. In 2002, it became available in Japanese and Korean. In 2004, it became available on eBay.
Today, Eric heads FatDUX in Copenhagen, Denmark. Much more info at www.fatdux.com.
McLean, Virginia, USA
Stacy is focused on strengthening the organizational infrastructure of the IAI so it can support bold initiatives, like the development of Local Groups across the world. She is a co-founder of the DCIA local group in Washington, DC, edits the IA Column in the ASIS&T Bulletin, served as chair for the 2005 Information Architecture Summit, co-founded the Rosebud independent film and video festival, managed fundraising for the DC Arts Center, co-chaired the Foundation for Mid-East Communication, served as briefing leader for the Hunger Project, started a crimewatchers program in Haight-Asbury, and organized a neighborhood circus. She has made numerous public speaking, TV, and radio appearances on topics ranging from arts programming to Y2K readiness.
Stacy is an Information Architect for the MITRE Corporation (www.mitre.org).
Seattle, Washington, USA
In early 1998, Samantha started a rather unexpected job with Amazon.com. There she found herself immediately consumed with how users found information they needed and what she could do to help improve the experience. A number of years later, she finally discovered that there was actually a name for much of the skill set she had been cultivating. At work at the time, we never used the term "information architecture"; in fact, she had never heard of it until she was about to return to school to get her MLIS. Driven by my desire to learn more about the theoretical and academic backgrounds of information management, she began researching areas of expertise within the Information Science field and came across information architecture. During the pursuit of my recently completed Masters, she focused her studies around areas that would benefit her work as an IA. Although she was about to become a poor student again, she signed up immediately for the IA Summit.
Once Samantha began reading all of the earmark texts and scouring the internet for all things IA, she felt that internal 'fluttering' that indicated that this was the right place. Since getting on the SIG-IA list and joining the original AIfIA organization she has continued to be excited by the amazing talent and vision in this field, and has looked for ways of becoming directly involved. She has greatly enjoyed providing volunteer efforts, including work for the 2004 and 2005 IA Summits, and is pleased to be continuing that work on the planning committee for the upcoming 2006 Summit. She has experience contributing at various levels in other professional organizations, including recently being chair for the University of Washington's chapter of ASIS&T (American Society of Information Science and Technology) and currently serving on the CM Professionals Board as secretary.
She is pleased to be currently serving the information architecture cause at
Microsoft, where she enjoys a position of working to influence others and sell
the need for information architecture. (In addition to still doing the occasional
wireframe herself!)
San Francisco, California, USA
Peter is the Director of Practice Development and a founding partner of Adaptive Path. He is an experienced information architect, writer, speaker, and leader in the field of designing for user experience.
Peter has worked with a range of clients, from early stage startups to massive Fortune 500 enterprises, on a range of projects -- user research, design, content strategy and analysis, and combinations of the three. As Director of Practice Development, he is responsible for maintaining Adaptive Path's excellence in its methodology and practice, understanding how these elements in our toolkit can be brought together to address a range of situations.
Peter is a regular speaker at Web design and information architecture conferences, such as ASIS&T's Information Architecture Summits (years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005). He keynoted both the Institute of Design's 2003 About With and For conference, and 2004 SIGCHI.NL, the premiere Dutch HCI conference.
Peter is an active member of the ASIST and ACM's SIG-CHI. He serves on the organizing committee for the Information Architecture Summit.
For more on Peter, visit his Adaptive Path team page (www.adaptivepath.com)
or his personal website (www.peterme.com).
Oakland, California, USA
Christian Crumlish has been developing and writing about shared information spaces since 1994. He is the curator of the Yahoo! pattern library. He has consulted with startups and Fortune 500 companies, including FedEx, Kodak, Visa, Sprint, Charles Schwab, Safeway, Sun, SanDisk, BEA, HTC, Aramark, MediaMelon, Syklist, and GoFish. He is the author of, most recently, The Power of Many: How the Living Web is Transforming Politics, Business, and Everday Life, as well as The Internet for Busy People, Dreamweaver Savvy, A Guided Tour of the Internet and The Internet Dictionary. He is currently researching a book on digital identity, remote presence, attention, and trust tentatively titled Presence of Mind.
What most excites Christian in the IA field these days are the challenges inherent in emerging interfaces, such as the mobile "converged device" interface and the TV-oriented "10 foot" interface.
He has spoken at a variety of conferences, from South by Southwest to Seybold, from the IA Summit to the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association's annual conference.
Christian earned his bachelor of arts in philosophy from Princeton University in 1986. He is the host of the Blog conference on The Well, contributes to You're It! a blog on tagging and writes a number of other semi-obscure blogs. He lives in Oakland, California with his fiancée, Briggs, and his cat, Fraidy.
For more on Christian, see http://christiancrumlish.com.
Murrumbateman, NSW, Australia
Donna is a freelance interaction designer and information architect who specialises in making complex systems simple for people to use. She has more than 6 years experience in senior consulting and in-house roles. She has designed huge intranets & websites, e-commerce & search systems, business applications and a content management system. She continually surprises her colleagues by talking to people rather than computers and designing the old-fashioned way with pencil, markers and reams of coloured paper.
Donna keeps starting then stopping Masters programs, preferring to follow her own path through an increasingly large pile of books. She is an experienced speaker http://maadmob.com.au/maadmob_id/speaking.html who has presented sessions and workshops at many local and international conferences. She spends her spare time playing in her orchard, spending (not enough) time with her family, working as program chair for next year's Information Architecture Summit http://iasummit.org/, and writing a book on card sorting http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/cardsorting/ to be published by Rosenfeld Media in early 2007.
For more on Donna, visit http://maadmob.com.au/maadmob_id/.
Sunnyvale, California, USA
Sarah has 11 years experience in the field of Information Architecture, practicing IA before there was an agreed-upon name for it, and before there were organizations that assisted us in our field. She has a master's degree in Library and Information Science and her own consulting firm, Seneb Consulting (www.seneb.com). In the past, She has helped to organize events sponsored by the IA Institute, including the 2005 IAI-sponsored pre-conference workshop at the IA Summit, an IA retreat held at Asilomar in California, and the IDEA 2006 conference in Seattle, WA. She has also participated in the mentorship program and contributed to the collection of tools available to other IAs.
For more about Sarah, please visit www.seneb.com.