IAC - Information Architecture Conference

Crash Course or Crash Out: A First Timer's Taxonomy Tale talk at IAC26 by Jessica DuVerneay and Taylor Loredo-Payberah. Presentation on redesigning Texas Commission on Environmental Quality website information architecture for civic clarity and accessibility. April 16, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

Crash Course or Crash Out: A First Timer's Taxonomy Tale talk at IAC26 by Jessica DuVerneay and Taylor Loredo-Payberah. Presentation on redesigning Texas Commission on Environmental Quality website information architecture for civic clarity and accessibility. April 16, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

Crash Course or Crash Out: A First Timer's Taxonomy Tale talk at IAC26 by Jessica DuVerneay and Taylor Loredo-Payberah. Presentation on redesigning Texas Commission on Environmental Quality website information architecture for civic clarity and accessibility. April 16, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

Strategic taxonomy is a tool for civic clarity and public trust.

This first-timer's tale shows how deep listening and user journeys transformed TCEQ's jargon-heavy website into accessible, task-based IA.

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Making Taxes Less Taxing: Lessons Learned from IRS Direct File talk at IAC26 by Theresa and Johanna. Presentation on information architecture and design principles for simplifying complex government processes through the IRS Direct File tool. April 18, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

Making Taxes Less Taxing: Lessons Learned from IRS Direct File talk at IAC26 by Theresa and Johanna. Presentation on information architecture and design principles for simplifying complex government processes through the IRS Direct File tool. April 18, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

Making Taxes Less Taxing: Lessons Learned from IRS Direct File talk at IAC26 by Theresa and Johanna. Presentation on information architecture and design principles for simplifying complex government processes through the IRS Direct File tool. April 18, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

Billions in tax benefits go unclaimed because filing is too daunting.

This IAC26 talk shows how IRS Direct File used research and design to find "just the right amount of information" to guide people through complexity.

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Escape Room Rules: Physical Design Principles for Digital Facilitation talk at IAC26 by Laura Nash. Presentation on applying escape room design principles to improve digital workshop facilitation and group learning experiences. April 18, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

Escape Room Rules: Physical Design Principles for Digital Facilitation talk at IAC26 by Laura Nash. Presentation on applying escape room design principles to improve digital workshop facilitation and group learning experiences. April 18, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

Escape rooms teach us how to guide groups through complexity fast.

Laura Nash applies escape room design principles to digital facilitation: bookends, bottlenecks, reveals, and more.

April 18, Philadelphia: www.theiaconference.com/sessions/esc...

Scaffolds, Not Skyscrapers: Information Architecture in Complex Systems talk at IAC26 by Jennifer Briselli. Presentation on reimagining information architecture for dynamic, adaptive environments using complexity science principles. April 17, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

Scaffolds, Not Skyscrapers: Information Architecture in Complex Systems talk at IAC26 by Jennifer Briselli. Presentation on reimagining information architecture for dynamic, adaptive environments using complexity science principles. April 17, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

IA is often about bringing order to the mess but what if the environments we design are too complex for static structure?

Scaffolds, Not Skyscrapers by Jen Briselli at IAC26 explores complexity science for IA in dynamic, AI-shaped worlds.

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Product Blueprints: Documenting the IA of Products talk at IAC26 by Dan Brown. Presentation on creating documentation standards for product information architecture and enabling constructive team conversations about product structure. April 16, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

Product Blueprints: Documenting the IA of Products talk at IAC26 by Dan Brown. Presentation on creating documentation standards for product information architecture and enabling constructive team conversations about product structure. April 16, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

We have site maps and flow charts but no standard for documenting product IA.

@brownorama.bsky.social's IAC26 talk identifies a recipe for product blueprints that enable better team conversations about product structure.

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Architecting Access: Designing a Clear, Scalable, and Secure Access System for Netflix Studio talk at IAC26 by Jordan Kolasinski. Presentation on using information architecture to redesign global access management systems for clarity and security. April 16, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

Architecting Access: Designing a Clear, Scalable, and Secure Access System for Netflix Studio talk at IAC26 by Jordan Kolasinski. Presentation on using information architecture to redesign global access management systems for clarity and security. April 16, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

Access management sounds straightforward until you try to make it secure, compliant, and usable at global scale.

In this talk, Jordan Kolasinski shows how terminology, concept models, naming guidelines transformed Netflix's access system from confusing to comprehensible.

Ethics as Information Architecture: Why AI Safety Requires IA Thinking talk at IAC26. Presentation on building ethical AI systems through information architecture principles and structural constraints on information flow. April 17, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

Ethics as Information Architecture: Why AI Safety Requires IA Thinking talk at IAC26. Presentation on building ethical AI systems through information architecture principles and structural constraints on information flow. April 17, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

AI ethics as afterthought = fragile. Ethical AI is an IA problem.

Ethics as Information Architecture: Why AI Safety Requires IA Thinking shows how structural constraints on information flow create AI that can't be tricked into harm.

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Architecture Walk: Architecture Is A Way of Seeing walkshop at IAC26 led by Dan Klyn. Educational walking tour exploring Louis Kahn, Richard Saul Wurman, and Philadelphia architecture through information architecture frameworks. April 17, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

Architects learn to see before they build. IAs should too.

Dan Klyn's @danklyn.bsky.social IAC26 "walkshop" explores Philly architecture through IA frameworks and how space shapes experience.

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Shitty Maps: The Trojan Horse for Real-Time Sensemaking talk at IAC26 by Joe Elmendorf. Presentation on using simple visual tools to build shared understanding and surface misalignment during team conversations. April 18, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

Shitty Maps: The Trojan Horse for Real-Time Sensemaking talk at IAC26 by Joe Elmendorf. Presentation on using simple visual tools to build shared understanding and surface misalignment during team conversations. April 18, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

Talk stays invisible. Shitty maps make it visible in real-time.

@joeelmendorf.bsky.social's IAC talk aims to close the gap between the conversation happening and the shared understanding emerging.

Learn more: www.theiaconference.com/sessions/shitty-maps-the-trojan-horse-for-real-time-sensemaking/

Beyond Resilience: Cultivating Emotional Endurance in the Age of Overwhelm workshop at IAC26 led by Alba Villamil. Educational session for design professionals covering self-awareness, empathetic boundaries, emotional regulation, self-care, and self-compassion skills. April 17, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

What if instead of just pushing through overwhelm, you cultivated emotional endurance?

Alba Villamil's IAC26 workshop explores foundational skills needed for this with practical experiments and personalized care planning.

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Intro to Artificial Intelligence workshop at IAC26 led by Duane Degler. Educational session for IA and UX practitioners covering AI fundamentals, applications, ethics, and roles for information architects in human-centered AI systems. April 14, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

AI is changing fast. Where do IAs fit?

This IAC26 workshop gives you practical knowledge about AI systems and how to apply your IA skills to human-centered, responsible AI.

No need to be a prompting expert to participate!
April 14th, Philadelphia (IAC26)

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Join a conference for the IA community, by the IA community April 16th – 18th in Philadelphia

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Workshops, talks, and good times from people who have plenty of love to share with the IA community. April 16th – 18th in Philadelphia.

Stop Making Journey Maps and Personas, Complete a SAC (Scenario Alignment Canvas) Instead workshop led by Jen Blatz. Virtual educational session on using scenario-based alignment for faster UX research planning and team collaboration. March 19, 2026.

Personas and journey maps take weeks but rarely drive decisions.

Jen Blatz's Scenario Alignment Canvas gets teams aligned, exposes assumptions, and builds research plans in 1-2 hours.

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IA Roundtable: Polycrisis, Positionality, Hyperlocality, and Information Architecture at IAC26. Discussion session for IA thought leaders, educators, and practitioners exploring how to advance information architecture as a discipline to address global social and environmental challenges. April 14, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

How do we adapt IA for an evolving world?

The IA Roundtable at IAC26 explores advancing the discipline, addressing wicked problems, and making IA locally relevant. Co-create artifacts with thought leaders and practitioners.
@resmini.bsky.social @stsurla.bsky.social

Your taxonomy should work for users and the business. Getting both to align is the hard part.

April 15, Philadelphia: www.theiaconference.com/sessions/ali...

Content Management Observability workshop at IAC26 focused on measuring content ROI through composition, health, quality, and effectiveness frameworks. Educational session on developing actionable data feedback loops for strategic content decision-making. April 15, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

Content is a strategic investment, but most organizations can't see what's working.

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Timeless Sensemaking Skills for the Modern Sensemaker workshop at IAC26 led by Abby Covert. Educational session for designers, strategists, and leaders focused on stakeholder management, incentive mapping, structural argumentation, and demonstrating ROI. April 17, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

Sensemaking is timeless, but our messes are modern.

Abby Covert's IAC26 workshop invites you to slow down, zoom out, and strengthen the foundational skills that make clarity possible in complex contexts.

April 17, Philadelphia at IAC26!

In or near Philly, catch this workshop from Scott Kubie on facilitation skills.

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Facilitating Strategy (Even When You're Not in Charge) workshop at IAC26 focused on facilitation skills for strategists, architects, and designers. Educational session covering activity design, group dynamics, and strategic decision-making techniques for practitioners at any level. April 14, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

Facilitation is how you move a group from "we should" to "we will." And you don't need to be the most senior person in the room to do it.

If you've ever wanted a practical approach to facilitation that strengthens strategic decision-making, then this is the workshop for you!

Early bird promotion for IAC26 offering $100 off registration ending January 31st. Philadelphia, PA, April 14–15, 2026.

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April 14-18 in Philadelphia. See you there.
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