Abby Covert joins the 2014 UXcamp lineup

The newly elected president of the IA Institute will feature at UXcamp 2014.

How To Make Sense of Any Mess
Nov 8, 11:00am / 40 MINUTES

In a world where everything is getting more complex and we are all experiencing personal information overload, there is a growing need to understand the tools and processes that are used to make sense of complex subjects and situations. These tools aren’t hard to learn or even tough to implement but they are also not part of many people’s education.

Information Architecture is a practice of making sense. A set of principles, lessons and tools to help anyone make sense of any thing. Whether you are – a student or professional, a designer, technologist or small business owner, an intern or executive – learn how information architecture can help you make sense of your next endeavour.

Speaker Bio: Abby Covert

If you’re looking for rising stars in the UX community, chances are Abby Covert is very close to the top of that list. Recently elected as President of the Information Architecture Institute (IAI) and a co-chair of the 2014 IA Summit, Abby is an active organizer and mentor within the design community. She’s also the creator of the World IA Day, which in 2014 served 24 location and attracted more than 2500 attendees globally.

Abby teaches at Parsons the New School, The School of Visual Arts, General Assembly and Hyper Island. She has guest lectured for NYU, Miami Ad School and the University of Michigan School of Information. When she’s not teaching, she is furthering her reputation for stellar information architecture work in a variety of consulting contexts. Her diverse portfolio includes work for among others: Staples, Nike, IHOP, Herman Miller, Kraft Foods, Sharpie, JELL-O, Prismacolor, Expo Markers, Valspar, KMART, Taco Bell, KFC, State Farm and The United States Postal Service, BlueCross BlueShield, JSTOR, Fidelity Investments, Bank of America, The Hartford Insurance.

She has featured at the major UX conferences, appearing at Interaction12 Dublin, IXDA NYC Redux12, Wharton Web Conference 12, Search Love 2013 (Boston and London) World IA Day 2013 NYC and World IA Day 2014 Ann Arbor, Business Insider NYC Startup Conference 2013 and Midwest UX 2011 & 2013.

Abby holds a dual degree in Graphic Design and Multimedia from Northeastern University where she was pretty sure she was going to be a typographer or an art history professor. During her time in art school she was known for her installation art, love of Paul Rand, failed dance punk band with matching flash animations and helpful hand as a teaching assistant in typography and class note taker in art history.

You can follow Abby on Twitter @Abby_the_IA

*Image credit: CanUX & Elida Arrizza