The Translation Initiative Team
Initiative Coordinator
Janette Shew, USA
Janette Shew, a Los Angeles business analyst, joined the IA Institute as the first and only Member Database Migration volunteer. Her work with the migration and set up is integral to functioning web member services. She later expressed an interest in promoting our Translations Intiative and took over the reins from Deutsch representative and outgoing TIA leader, Wolf Nöding in 2008. For more information or to volunteer, please contact Janette at tia AT iainstitute DOT org
Bulgarian Team
Masha Ioveva, USA
Language representative, Bulgarian
Maria Ioveva is an Experience Planner at Publicis Dialog NY, where she's waiting for the job titles of interaction designer, user experience design and planning to sort themselves out. She received her MFA from Parsons' School of Design, New York in 2005.
Danish Team (Dansk)
Laura Sander, Denmark
Language representative, Dansk
(Danish)
Dutch Team (Nederlands)
Peter Boersma, Nederlands
Language representative, Nederlands (Dutch)
At university, Peter combined computer science with ergonomics and since then aims to create information environments where people can work and play without having to adapt too much. He has been working in the field of user experience since 1995 as a user interface designer, project manager, concept designer, consultant, information architect, and manager. Currently, he is the senior interaction designer of the user experience department at Info.nl where he designs online environments, mostly for financial institutions.
Peter loves design processes and has published and spoken about the topic at local, national and international conferences. He has been involved in the organization of those conferences since 1997, including CHI conferences, IA Summits and all three Euro IA conferences. He has also been organizing local IA/UX Cocktail Hours since 2001. For more about Peter, please visit http://www.peterboersma.com/blog.
French Team (Français)
Vanessa Deconinck, France
Language representative, Français (French)
German Team (Deutsch)
Wolf H. Nöding, Germany
Language representative, German (Deutsch) (German)
Wolf H. Nöding is an information architect from Germany. He has a Masters in Industrial Design and studied Designinformatik (partly Information Design) two more years. Currently he's involved in developing knowledge management, CMS and e-Learning systems as a conceptioner and information architect for the IT/Medical industry in Germany and Europe. Started his career as a webdesigner (2d/3d) while living two years In New York (1996-98) during his study. Wolf enjoys creating 360° photographic panoramas for VIPs in his leisure time.
Jan Jursa, Germany
Language volunteer, Deutsch (German)
Marcus Haid, Germany
Language volunteer, Deutsch (German)
Stephen Köver, Germany
Language volunteer, Deutsch (German)
Hebrew Team
Bruce Esrig, USA
Language representative, Hebrew
Hungarian Team (Magyar)
Minkó Mihaly, Hungary
Language representative, Hungarian
Italian Team (Italiano)
Andrea Resmini, Italy/Sweden
Language representative, Italiano (Italian)
Andrea Resmini is an information architect. An IT professional since 1989, Andrea holds a Masters in Architecture and Industrial Design and has been a teaching assistant of Generative Design at the Politecnico di Milano, Faculty of Architecture. A visiting researcher at JIBS in Jönköping (SE) and currently pursuing a PhD at CIRSFID, Dept. of CS and Law in Bologna (IT). He works on IA and classification issues concerning historical and juridical online databases, F/LOSS CMS and topic maps. Andrea is a Linux buff and his website is resmini.net.
Luca Rosati, Italy
Language representative, Italiano (Italian)
Luca Rosati [http://lucarosati.it]] is a freelance Information Architect and assistant professor in Informatics for Humanistic Science (i.e. Information Architecture and Human Computer Interaction) at University for Foreigners of Perugia, in Italy. He spoke at Euro IA and IA Summit, and manages Trovabile [http://trovabile.org] an Italian magazine devoted to IA (Trovabile is a calque on the English Findable). Luca published the books "Organizing Knowledge. From Lybraries to Information Architecture for the Web" (Milan, 2006), and "Information Architecture from Everyday Environments to the Web" (Milan, 2007).
Sara Strangalini, Italy
Language representative, Italian (Italiano)
Japanese Team
Nobuya Sato, Japan
Language representative, Japanese
Nobuya Sato is an Experience Designer, former User Experience Design Lead and Sr. IA at Business Architects, and former head of Information Architecture at Tokyo office of Razorfish. He is an active speaker and author on IA in Japan, specialized in User Experience, Design Strategy, Enterprise IA, and Web Globalization. Currently, he is working on a new mobile platform user experience at Sony Design. Nobuya holds Product Design degree from Kobe Design University.
Polish Team (Polska)Stanislaw Skorka, Poland
Language representative, Polska (Polish)
Portuguese Team (Português)
Carolina Leslie, Brazil
Language representative, Português (Portuguese)
Carolina Leslie is an Information Architect and usability analyst in Brazil. She works as the team coordinator at an IA and usability consulting, Try consultoria e pesquisas. She also lead the organization of the first Brazilian IA conference, held in October 2007 in São Paulo. Carolina keeps a blog in Portuguese at www.lulileslie.com.
Spanish Team (Español)
Jorge Arango, Panama
Language representative, Español (Spanish)
Jorge Arango is an information
architect from the Republic of Panama. He was educated as an architect (of the steel and reinforced concrete type) and applies architectural techniques to the challenges of designing user-friendly and functional web applications. In 1999 he joined Cable & Wireless--one of the biggest Internet carriers in the world--to help with the implementation of their e-commerce platform in Panama. Jorge currently resides in Virginia.
Miguel Alcantará, Peru
Language volunteer, Español (Spanish)
Nicolas Cohen, Argentina
Language volunteer, Español (Spanish)
Jorge Marquez, Spain
Language volunteer, Español (Spanish)
Paula Ortega, Argentina
Language volunteer, Español (Spanish)
Want to Join TIA?
The Institute welcomes volunteers who are interested in working on the translation initiative. We currently need help migrating each language site into the redesigned format. Volunteers with PHP and MovableType skills as well as a facility in the site language are ideal. We can provide training.
We will also need help editing content in each of our represented languages.
Contact our TIA Coordinator and join the TIA discussion list to get involved.