Lisa Maria Marquis - The Harm Hiding in Our Information Architectures

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10/25/21 • 73 min

Lisa Maria Marquis encourages us to be better designers by thinking more deeply about the decisions we’re making and their potential for harm.

Highlights include:

⭐ What are some harmful IA decisions that we're making?
⭐ Why is Information Architecture undervalued and under-practiced?
⭐ How do we actively build a safe and trusting relationship with users?
⭐ Why do gender categories cause some people to lose their minds?
⭐ Is it possible for us to completely avoid our work causing harm?

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Who is Lisa Maria Marquis?

Lisa is the Principal of The Future is Like Pie, an independent Information Architecture and Content Strategy consultancy that’s on a mission to make it easier for people to find, understand, and act on information on the web.

Through her consultancy, Lisa regularly works with well-known agencies, such as Happy Cog and Brain Traffic. She also works directly with organisations such as Autodesk, the University of California, and Egghead.io.

Lisa is also the author of Everyday Information Architecture, an amazing book that shows you how to leverage the principles and practices of IA, and the Managing Editor of A Book Apart, a highly respected publisher of books for designers, developers and content creators.

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Find Lisa here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/redsesame/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/redsesame/
Website: https://thefutureislikepie.com/

Lisa’s book:

Everyday Information Architecture:
https://abookapart.com/products/everyday-information-architecture

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Lisa Maria Marquis encourages us to be better designers by thinking more deeply about the decisions we’re making and their potential for harm.

Highlights include:

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Who is Lisa Maria Marquis?

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Find Lisa here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/redsesame/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/redsesame/
Website: https://thefutureislikepie.com/

Lisa’s book:

Everyday Information Architecture:
https://abookapart.com/products/everyday-information-architecture

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Liked what you heard and want to hear more? Subscribe and support the show by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you listen).

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TheSpaceInBetween/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-space-in-between/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespaceinbetw__n/

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Hosted by Brendan Jarvis:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanjarvis/
Website: https://thespaceinbetween.co.nz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendanjarvis/

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Jane Austin - From Designer to Executive Design Leader

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Highlights include:

How do you help people to be more comfortable with being wrong?
- Why is it important to find your voice as a design leader?
- How does “strong opinions loosely held” work in practice?
- Why is it so important to do qualitative UX research?
- How are you helping other women to succeed in the business world?

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Who is Jane Austin?

Jane is the Chief Experience Officer at Digitas UK, where she’s been charged with creating best-in-class connected experiences for the agency’s clients.

Before Digitas, Jane was the Chief Design Officer for Flo Health, the company behind one of the world’s most popular apps for helping women to take control of menstruation.

From late 2018 to late 2020, Jane was the Director of Product Design at Babylon Health, where she led a global team of 100 talented designers, researchers, content specialists, product and operations people.

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Find Jane here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/msjaneaustin/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/msjaneaustin

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Hosted by Brendan Jarvis:

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Website: https://thespaceinbetween.co.nz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendanjarvis/

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