Everything Flows: Adapting IA for an Evolving World
Panel discussion & Q&A following Andrea Resmini's WIAD 2025 Global Keynote
Join us for a 75-minute virtual panel discussion exploring the evolving landscape of Information Architecture in our increasingly complex digital-physical world. Following Andrea Resmini's WIAD 2025 keynote on IA's rich 60-year history and its future, our panel of practitioners will dive deeper into what it means to practice IA today and tomorrow.
What to expect:
Hear perspectives from practitioners with both Classical and Contemporary IA backgrounds
Explore how IA extends beyond websites into the spaces where information flows
Talk about applying IA principles to new technologies
Join the conversation with your own questions during our Q&A session
Discussion themes:
The shift from website-focused to blended physical/digital experiences
Making complex systems clear in an AI-driven world
Building a useful language of critique for evaluating information architecture
Skills and approaches for IA practice
Whether you're an information architect, a UX professional, a student, or simply curious about how information shapes our experiences, this discussion welcomes you. We'll explore together how we can create more human-centered information spaces in our complex world.
As Resmini reminds us, "Everything flows.” Join us as we explore where IA is flowing next.
Keynote resources
Video: https://vimeo.com/1062666067
Transcript https://andrearesmini.com/blog/everything-flows/
Date: Monday, April 14, 2025
Time:
8 am - 9:30am Pacific
11 am - 12:30 pm Eastern
3 pm - 4:30 pm UTC
Platform: Zoom
Panelists' Bio
Andrea Resmini
Andrea Resmini is an associate professor of experience design and information architecture in the Department of Intelligent Systems and Digital Design at Halmstad University, where he works with the conceptualization and design of blended spaces and blended experiences and researches exploratory and speculative tabletop game making. An architect turned information architect turned educator, Andrea is a two-time past president of the Information Architecture Institute, a founding member of Architecta, the Italian Society for Information Architecture, a co-founder of the World IA Day international conference, the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Information Architecture (https://journalofia.org/), and the author of Pervasive Information Architecture (2011), Reframing Information Architecture (2014), and Advances in Information Architecture (2021).
Read more about Andrea on his personal website: https://andrearesmini.com/.
Andrea Resmini's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/resmini/
Sophia Prater
Sophia Prater is the CEO at Rewired UX, the creator of the Object-Oriented UX Certification (https://www.ooux.com/), host of the OOUX Podcast, and creator of the ORCA Process. She's consulted for and trained teams at Google, Facebook, Autodesk, Athena Healthcare, Mastercard, Credit Karma, CNN.com, Macys.com, and many more. Today, Sophia focuses on helping UX designers and digital product professionals expand their capacity for complexity, zero in on risky assumptions, capture requirements visually, deepen their cross-functional collaboration, and launch better products. She lives in the mountains of North Georgia with her husband and CTO Luke, surrounded by wineries and waterfalls.
Sophia Prater's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophiav/
Nate Davis
Nate brings over 25 years of experience in human-computer interaction and has spent the last two decades championing information architecture (IA) as both a discipline and practice. He has authored 60+ professional articles and curates the longest-running active IA glossary on the web. A frequent contributor to the IA community, he is a former co-chair of the IA Summit, co-founder of the IA Summit reboot, now known as the Information Architecture Conference (IAC), and a volunteer peer reviewer. Through his consultancy, Methodbrain, Nate specializes in IA strategy and analytics while also conducting independent research on foundational IA theory and IA structure as a science.
Nate Davis' Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathaniel-davis-ia/
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