Rebekah Bengtson
About: My career path recently took a left turn at IA. I was raised by a game QA lead, have a BS in CS and spent years as a web programmer and database designer before someone noticed I was really good at organizing bits and people and offered me a job involving information architecture. That was about a month and a half ago. Now I'm learning the ropes on a sprawling university/healthcare/research/non-profit website
Beyond expanding my work skills this is my first trip to Miami and I love to snorkel. Rumor has it the IA community is also full of knitters and I will be easily spotted working on a very simple scarf patterned off the Fibonacci sequence.
Discussions
Snorkeling?
--I've found a couple of nice parks in the area and think I want to try going snorkeling. Any other snorkelers interested? I'll be arriving late We...
Time Confusion
--I just made it in, 5 hours delayed thanks to American Airlines, 11pm PST and unsure what that means EST and exhausted. I can't seem to find any in...
IA Summit Book List
--Is the Summit book list available anywhere online? Thanks!
Can't choose - share & compare?
--I can't choose between Taxonomy & Placemaking tomorrow morning at 9am. Anyone want to go to one while I go to the other and then share and compare...
Key Biscayne Sunday
--Weather and time permitting I'm going to take a cab out to Key Biscayne Sunday. Anyone want to ride along? It's about a 15 minute drive from the ...
La Carreta Restaurant on Key Biscayne
--It looks like there's a Cuban restaurant not far from Crandon beach on Key Biscayne called La Carreta that might be a good drop-off point after the...
Conference Notes via Blog
--I've been scribbling down the link to give people my conference notes that I'm creating for coworkers and friends back home and I thought I might a...
Photo of Conference Roooms
--Does anyone have a picture of the conference rooms we were in with the 70s ceilings? I'm trying to spice up my slides presenting on the conference...
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Back in the States
--I've been back in the U.S. for a few days now but had a bit of a cold and a ton of things to catch up on. Yet to come: pictures of my trips and a ...
Discovery Dive Day Two
--Today was pretty much centered around my reef discovery dive. Early breakfast, early lunch, then off on the boat to Delilah to Casa Blanca reef. ...
Discovery Dive, Day of the Lizards
--The lizards all came out today. It was a hot day and the sidewalks had big and small, grey and green. The trees had big orange iguanas. Also a t...
A Series of Beautiful Experiences
--I woke early to eat breakfast with John before he headed out to dive. After seeing him off on his boat I went and got a massage. Very relaxing, v...
Wrap up, travel, vacation start
--I ended up having dinner Monday (yesterday) at Bubba Gump shrimp with an absolutely delightful small group of people. Chiara, Erik, Jackie, and Jo...
Random book recommendations
--The Fortress of Solitudeby Jonathan Lethem(recommended by Andrew Hinton over lunch)Memoirs of a Geisha(recommended by Chiara over dinner)The Watchm...
5 minute madness (yeah, notes, call me crazy)
--30 mins of random presentingAnnouncements: Sept 26 & 27 Amsterdam IA Conference www.euroia.org submit by May 18th 10pm CET, podcasts available...
Linkosophy
--Andrew Hinton presenting((I agree it's an ugly word! It reminds me of colonoscopy!))Looking for a better conversation on IA.1/3 of this is from las...
What are your users...? session notes
--What are your users REALLY thinking? An objective way to uncover the subjective - David Robins, Jason Holmes, Janna Korzenko((Admittedly loopy. I ...
Designing with Patterns: session notes
--Designing with patterns in the real world: Lessons from Yahoo! And Comcast - Christian Crumlish, Austin Govella((Intro is very similar to Design Pa...
Audiences & Artifacts: session notes
--Nathan Curtis of EightShapes presentingAxiom: "People don't read on the web."People don't read deliverables.Creating a reference point for other pe...
Storytelling: session notes
--Storytelling - a compelling design tool - Dorelle Rabinowitz presenting((I started taking notes late and the slides are more for visuals so slides ...
E-Service: session notes
--E-service: What we can learn from the customer-service gurus Eric Reiss of FatDUX presentingFive Laws of Library Science relevant to us - just say ...
Innovative Intranets: slide link
--What do innovative intranets look like?
Code Blue: session notes
--Code Blue: How Service Design Can Revolutionize Patient Care in HospitalsAaron Martlage of Electronic Ink presentingService Design is all about "to...
Practical Prototyping Panel: notes
--Todd Zaki Warfel, Chris Conley, Anders Ramsay, Jed WoodApplications: Flex has components good for prototypingHow to do prototyping if you don't cod...
Faceted Feature Analysis: session notes
--Adam A. Polansky of Travelocity presentingI wandered out of the panel early and stumbled across this really cool session. I didn't take notes at t...
Search Patterns: notes
--Peter Morville presentingIs writing a book on the topic - this is the first time he's presenting on it though and to a Very crowded house.He put so...
Testing for Advertising Effictiveness: notes
--Margaret Hanley presenting(slides)1. advertisers really want profit, not necessarily user experience2. focus groups work!3. ad placement 4. testing...
Taxonomy is User Experience: notes
--by Dave Cooksey with gsi interactive((really good slides give a lot of the information))Give people in charge of the catalog a checklist of things ...
End of Day & Planning Tomorrow
--I appear to be running out of business cards. I really don't feel like I've handed out that many but I guess I have. There are just too many inte...
Posters: not session notes
--I was wandering around the posters room wondering what it was about some that made them really eye catching and some that made them less desirable....
The Long Wow: notes
--Brandon Schauer presentingDeveloping a loyal user base with good IA and UX. ((Note: IA = Information Architecture and UX = User Experience. Just in...
Blind Ambition: notes
--Claude Steinberg presentingMulti-media learningIcons are vital for multi-media learning and they are not good for Accessibility.There's a descripti...
Content design best practices: notes
--Luke Wroblewski presentingThis is a really good session. Highly recommend going to it tomorrow at 10:15 if you didn't make it today. Solid inform...
A Management Fable: notes
--Dan Willis presentingThis is a relaxing session. More about "this is the way it often goes, here's some ideas for avoiding the bad spots."Quotes:S...
IA Summit Day One Summary
--The first day of the IA Summit was a good one. I enjoyed the Design Patterns workshop.Upon returning to my hotel I found my optimism over my bag g...
Design Patterns: notes part 7
--Paper and scissors and tape oh my. Stenciled an address book.Now some talk about YUI. "APIs are the Engineer's way of expressing Design Patterns."...
Design Patterns: notes part 6
--Prototyping PatternsTest isolated items/portions of productsGet to know your userFail early (if the big picture doesn't work the granular one won't...
Design Patterns: notes part 5
--Organizing PatternsSlide shows a variety of ways of organizing patterns.UI designers like to come up with questions. Questions of intent, question...
Design Patterns: notes part 4
--Writing Patterns cont.Writing patterns is somewhat like writing a recipe. Ingredients to pattern and then what steps to take to recreate it.A paren...
IA Summit Day One: Lunch
--Had a very nice lunch. Feeling much more awake. Thinking about things to do after the conference. My cab driver last night warned me not to walk...
Design Patterns: notes part 3
--Writing Patterns4 parts of a design pattern1) Problem2) Solution3) Context4) Examples(It should be noted I have print outs of the slides. Current s...
Design Patterns: notes part 2
--Exercise Discussion bitsLook for: common elements, common interaction, required, validation, main form, labeling, error msg, show success, lost use...
Design Patterns: notes part 1
--IntroductionPatterns: solution to a problem in context.Books: Design Patterns - Gang of fourTidwell's Common GroundThe Design of SitesDesigning Int...
At the conference
--After a harrowing 17 hour day of travel I arrived in Miami last night. My bag is hopefully arriving today. Fortunately once American canceled all...
IA Summit: pre-conference workshops
--In addition to the monster list of interesting conference sessions in the previous post I want to attend I'm also going to three pre-conference wor...
IA Summit
--I'm going to the IA Summit in a week and a half and plan to blog it here. This is my tentative schedule for the conference:Saturday, April 12, 200...
Chili Con Carne No Chili
--Tonight I made chili but since I'm allergic to chili peppers it was no chili chili. It was also vaguely impromptu. Here's what I ended up doing:F...
Drupal experiment, plans revised and return of the blogger
--I decided in July to try out Drupal on my personal site. I haven't had the time to devote to learning it and I'm not happy with the state of it wh...
OSCON 2007 - Wednesday morning
--I'm using up Matt's battery by borrowing his laptop while he distributes fudge. Yeah, I'm hanging out with the fudge guy. As usual I have found a...
Woodpecker's Nest - Marquam Trail, Oregon
--Today I went for a walk along Marquam Trail. As I was wandering down the path I heard a persistant call of a bird. It repeated in no particular pa...
Getting XML posts by date - Coldfusion
--The language of preference at work is Coldfusion. Being a boat-stabilizer I am very willing to pick up a new language to integrate with the team. ...
Springwater Trail - Gresham to Boring, OR
--Today we bicycled from Gresham to Boring on Springwater Trail. Each thumbnail is a link to a larger picture. The back browser button is required....
Warped Again (web hosting)
--I've been using the web host provided with my DSL but they won't allow me to Putty in, there's no coding support and it's only 10MB space. Yeah, I...
Saddle Mountain Trail - Oregon
--Saddle Mountain Trail, located up a pot-hole ridden paved road that suffered severe washouts in the last year, can be found off Hwy 26 on the way t...
Hopes
--I plan for this blog to develop into a place to come back to and reference. Not just for myself but hopefully for others as well. The topics I ho...
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David Sturtz (mutual) want-to-meet |
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Luke Wroblewski (mutual) fan |
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Chiara Fox (mutual) fan, met |