Joint presentation with Steve Hansen from Phase5. Samantha will talk about the advocating and networking, and how to prepare so that you’re ready to go when the money does appear — before it disappears again. Steve Hansen talks about how the right research approaches can turn naysayers into advocates. It’s not just about executing world class research; it’s about helping clients integrate that research into their organizations, to make them more customer-focused. (Atlanta, GA) | More>
Lori Baker and Samantha Bailey recently switched roles – Samantha was a UX consultant for the last seven years and recently became the director of user experience at Merrill Corporation, and Lori was a senior UX manager at Best Buy for the last 3 years and decided to become a freelance UX consultant. Join Samantha and Lori for a discussion as they talk about why they switched roles and some tips to keep in mind if you are thinking of changing roles. (St Paul, MN) | More>
Panel: Panelists with many years of consulting experience share their insights on winning engagements, dealing with clients, and the different skills needed for internal and external consulting. Panelists: Dean Barker, Samantha Bailey Fast, Lyle Kantrovich (moderator), and Lou Rosenfeld. (Minneapolis, MN) | More>
Invited presenter: “Usability Immersion” Day-long professional development workshop presented to the Kent State University IT department’s management staff. (Canton, OH) | Slide deck (PPT)
Guest Speaker (Minneapolis, MN) | Slide deck (PPT)
Guest Lecture (Minneapolis, MN)
Guest Lecture (Chapel Hill, NC)
Invited Speaker (Rock Hill, SC) | Slide deck (PPT)
Case Study: Rebuilding Trust in the User Centered Design process through the Redesign of the Wachovia.com Investing Center. (Austin, TX) | Slide deck PPT
Case Study: Merging the First Union National Bank and Wachovia websites. (Portland, OR) | Slide deck (PPT)
Panel (Baltimore, MD)
Presentation for Symmetri, a web design firm (Greensboro, NC)
Invited speaker (London, UK)
Invited speaker (Newark, Delaware)
Full day workshop co-taught with Peter Morville. Presented at: IA2000 conference, La Jolla, California, October, 2000, through Argus Associates in New York, New York, January, 2001 and in conjunction with the ASIS&T Practicing Information Architecture Summit, San Francisco, California; February, 2001
Co-presented with Katrina Hagedorn (Albuquerque, NM)
Invited speaker (Bloomington, IN)
Guest lecturer, Information Architecture course (Ann Arbor, MI)
Co-presented with Peter Morville. A full-day workshop presented at User Interface Engineering’s annual conferences: UIE 2000 (Boston, MA; October, 1999) and UIE 2000 West (San Francisco, CA; April, 2000)
Co-presented with Peter Morville (Los Angeles, CA)
Co-presented with Peter Morville (Los Angeles, CA)
Co-presented with Lou Rosenfeld (Chicago, IL)
Samantha Bailey, the 2009 IA Summit Chair, talks about her approach to this year’s IA Summit, how the Summit community has changed, and what it means to be a part of this community of practice. | http://boxesandarrows.com/when-life-intervenes/
This article discussed the way that eye-tracking studies conducted by the UX team at Westlaw led to a 10% jump in revenue from one of its features, generating $4M in additional revenue.
Recently Boxes and Arrows caught up with Samantha Bailey, formerly at Argus and current lead IA for Wachovia Corporation’s Wachovia.com website. She talks about the transition from being a consultant to an “innie” IA, unravels the mysteries of metadata and taxonomies and shares her vision of the future of IA. | http://boxesandarrows.com/unraveling-the-mysteries-of-metadata-and-taxonomies/
Article about the challenges of linking specialized job hunters with employers seeking their unique skills via the Internet. Quotes Samantha Bailey regarding her experiences as VP of Operations at Argus Associates.
Samantha Bailey discusses IA as a career choice in an article about the rapid growth of the information architecture field.
Article published in tandem with talk at Knowledge Managed with Taxonomies Conference in the UK.
Guest columnist for Web Review magazine; 1997, Songline Studios, Sebastopol, CA
* Navigating the IA Maze; 11/14/97
* Yellow Fever C|Net Copycats Reach Critical Mass; 6/13/97
* To Link or Not To Link; 4/14/97
* Love Your Labels; 2/21/97
* Web Site Evaluation; 1/3/97
Bailey, S., Parker, J., and Schmiedicke, M. “Youth, the Internet and Library Policy,” printed as the Internet chapter in Connecting Young Adults and Libraries by Patrick Jones. Neal-Schuman, New York, NY: 1998. pp 333-342.
Bailey, S. and Ryan, S. “Making Web Space for Young Adults: Issues and Process.” Paper presented at the Internet Society’s annual conference, INET ’96, Montreal, Canada; 6/96.
O’Reilly Media, Sebastapol CA
O’Reilly Media, Sebastapol CA
New Riders Press, Indianapolis IN