The first Moscow WIAD: how did it go and what did they talk about

World Information Architecture Day traditionally bypassed Moscow by the side - but we decided to fix it. How did it go, who came, what was told about - in the report from the mitap on the information architecture in OZON.

Organizational matters

Sergei Petrov, WIAD Moscow, UX / UI organizer:
- When I first met this discipline, I understood: most of what I did as a designer and designer, analyst and project manager was either an AI, or it was just required by an IA method. From that moment on, I consider myself an active follower of this approach. Therefore, when I learned that WIAD has been held since 2012, and that it has never been in Moscow, it has become obvious - now it will be. In the “class ahead” class, I applied for WIAD 2019 Moscow and received approval.

The first day of information architecture was decided to be modest - in the format of a mitap. They called two guests and prepared two reports themselves.
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Reports

As promised, we recorded everything.

“What is information architecture”, Lara Simonova, information architect of Christie's auction house, co-founder of Channelkit

What to listen to:
- The term and problem definition
- Common definitions
- Common key points
- Parameters of the world
- Another definition of information architecture
- Application Contexts
- Example of a digital product: the creation process
- IA practices within processes
- Basic IA Issues
- History of the region


Presentation

“Information architecture of the project”, Pavel Aksyonov, head of the project office of OZON

What to listen to:
- Stages of work with information on the project
- Roles and their responsibilities
- Artifacts at different stages of work on projects
- Information necessary for project success


Presentation

“Information architecture in documentation”, Maria Smirnova, head of technical writers at OZON

What to listen to:
- What is documentation
- Information architecture
- Lecture hall
- Structure
- The words


Presentation

“Information architecture of Movista service”, Sergey Podshivalin and Sergey Tarabrin, Movista

What to listen
- Scheme of the service and its competitors
- Information architecture Movista
- Development and testing of prototypes
- Insights Testing
- Plans for 2019


Presentation

What's next?

As we expected, out of a hundred and fifty registrations, the turnout was a little less than half - there were 60-70 people in the peak in the hall, in total up to 80.

For those who are not afraid of large forms, there is a three-hour video.

And, of course, a photo report .

Since this was our first information and architectural mitap, we especially persistently collected and carefully analyzed the answers to the questions from this Google form (you will also have time to answer). So we found out that the topic is interesting, but is not quite clear yet. But this is always the case with relatively new disciplines - people want clarity and order in their products and processes, and information architecture creates this clarity and order.

Therefore, some useful information about WIAD and the world IA-community:
- Telegram-channel and chat Moscow WIAD
- WIAD website
- Information Architecture Institute
- The Understanding Group
- Photos from the event

Read:
- Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond 4th Edition (Polar Bear Book)
- Abstract of this book from annakanunikova (starting with this post )
Abby Covert - How To Make Any Messaging
- The same book online
- Understanding Context by Andrew Hinton
- Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything by Peter Morville

Thanks to skoooorik for help in preparing the material.
I would be happy to receive questions, wishes and comments in our chat or directly to me in Telegram .