Best of IA Summit 2008—Designing for the social: Avoiding anti-social networks

This was my favorite session. Why? First, I believe it was the most original thought at the Summit and it was brilliantly delivered. While the title denotes that the topic was going to look at designing networks in as less an anti-social way as possible, the session actually looked at how to detect, manage and even embrace anti-social networks. The session speaker was Miles Rochford from Nokia.


Miles made a very good point: When researching personas and user data, Ux professionals often default to the "cheery, happy, willing" user. However, we as interaction professionals often forget or ignore system users who have less than noble intents. How many "evil" personas have you seen? These personas would help designers and security engineers to design out features that could be used for negative intent.


All in all a great presentation!

IA Summit 2008

Attending the I A Summit in Miami

Here's a list of the sessions I attended

Session	Speaker
Keynote: Journey to the Center of Design	Jared Spool
Tagging: Five emerging trends	Gene Smith
Exploratory search and folksonomy: Exploration paths in social tagging systems	Tingting Jiang
Effective IA for enterprise portals: The building blocks design framework	Joe Lamantia
Content page design best practices	Luke Wroblewski
Designing for the social: Avoiding anti-social networks	Miles Rochford
Data driven design research personas	Todd Zaki Warfel
IA for tiny stuff: Exploring widgets and gadgets	Martin Belam