Taxonomy is User Experience - PhillyCHI

Date: February 26 2008

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Website: http://phillychi.acm.org

About This Event

PhillyCHI February Meeting - "Taxonomy is User Experience" by Dave Cooksey

Date: Tue, 2/26/2008
Time: 6 - 8PM
Location: Irvine Auditorium
University of Pennsylvania
3401 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
RSVP: Please help us to plan and RSVP at phillychi@gmail.com

Taxonomy Is User Experience
Over the past couple of years, we've all seen a lot of discussion around user-organized, user-generated content with sites like Flickr and Wikipedia held up as the future of user experiences where users tag and organize information as it suits them. We've even heard a certain amount of talk about the end of taxonomies.

Despite the rise of tagging and wikis, and the user experiences they enable, taxonomy has never been more important. Taxonomies continue to grow in importance as metadata and ontologies extend their capabilities and allow us to create more engaging user experiences.

This presentation will approach taxonomies from the user's perspective by introducing a simple conceptual framework that communicates the centrality of taxonomies to UX. Then, it will cover:

- the virtues of thinking of taxonomy in terms of the user experience and not simply as data or classification

- ways to talk about taxonomy that clearly communicate its business value and help promote it as a practice

- how to craft a user-centric taxonomy by examining several e-commerce redesign case studies

About Our Speaker
Dave is a UX Lead at gsi interactive and Chair of PhillyCHI. His day-to-day work includes guiding and executing UX & design activities, conducting user research, and information architecture. He also leads taxonomy and metadata projects. Dave's work is informed by masters degrees in information systems and social science.

This presentation will be sponsored by gsi interactive. To learn more about gsi interactive, visit www.gsicommerce.com.

Sign Up!

http://phillychi.acm.org

Tags

information architecture, taxonomy