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Tuesday, June 6, 2023 • Enterprise UX 2023
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Speakers: Husani Oakley
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Summary

The speaker, reflecting on a personal story from the late 1990s, highlights the importance of shared context in communication and collaboration. They explain that without a common understanding, even familiar concepts can become inaccessible. Building on this foundation, the talk explores information architecture as the art and science of organizing information to ensure usability, accessibility, and meaning within complex enterprise ecosystems. Alongside Milan, Sarah, and Ren, the speaker discusses the ongoing journey to answer how information architecture and knowledge management practices can help users find, understand, and learn from content, and how these practices support sustainable enterprise information environments. Milan will address the critical role of language for shared understanding, Ren will explore UX implementation in knowledge systems, and Sarah will provide strategies for advancing IA in enterprises. The talk encourages continuous community engagement via Slack to deepen these conversations beyond the session.

Key Insights

  • Shared context is essential for meaningful communication and collaboration, especially across different backgrounds.

  • Information architecture sits at the intersection of user, content, and context to structure usable information.

  • Enterprise ecosystems introduce complexity with multiple geographies, silos, cultures, and personality types.

  • There is a critical distinction between data, information, and knowledge that systems must manage to create actionable insights.

  • Effective information management practices enable users to find, make sense of, and learn from content.

  • Sustainable enterprise information environments require ongoing refinement of architecture and management strategies.

  • Language plays a pivotal role in establishing shared understanding, as Milan will discuss in detail.

  • UX principles can be integrated into knowledge systems to improve their usability and effectiveness, as Ren will explore.

  • IA strategies need to be adaptable and actionable to move forward effectively within enterprise contexts, a topic Sarah will address.

  • Building active, engaged communities around IA and knowledge management enriches ongoing learning and collaboration.

Notable Quotes

"You can’t collaborate without communicating upfront and sharing context."

"I worked at an interactive information rich, dynamic customer relationship management firm — that was my way to explain making websites."

"If we don’t have a shared context, we’re not actually on the same page."

"Information architecture is the art and science of organizing and structuring information to make it usable, accessible, and meaningful."

"In the enterprise, complexity and chaos are just another Tuesday."

"How is information stored, found, and used — these are foundational questions IA answers."

"Data, information, and knowledge are distinct, and we need systems that transform data into actionable context-rich knowledge."

"This is a journey with no end, and it’s amazing that we can continue the conversation beyond this session."

"Language is critical to shared understanding and shared context."

"We discovered shared ideals and differences of opinion — debating and working hard together is part of the process."

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