Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design

Jeff Parks

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Jeff Parks is the Podcast Editor for Boxes and Arrows and the President of i.a. consultants.

Jeff has over fifteen years experience in the Government, Non-Profit, and Private Sectors creating goal-oriented solutions as an Information Architect, team leader, and project manager.

These experiences have lead to successful delivery of projects in the Health Care and Information Technology industries including the development of information architectures, enterprise portal frameworks, e-Learning programs, cognitive rehabilitation systems, and corporate wide strategic frameworks.

He currently holds Secret clearance with the Government of Canada and was the 2007 co-Vice Chair for CapCHI, Ottawa's local ACM SIGCHI chapter.

Stories written by Jeff Parks

• Transitioning from User Experience to Product Management [0 comments]
• Blasting the Myth of the Fold [4 comments]
• Foundations of Interaction Design [4 comments]
• Using Design Visuals To Communicate Ideas [0 comments]
• IA Summit 2008, Day 3 [5 comments]
• IA Summit 2008, Day 2 [0 comments]
• IA Summit 2008, Day 1 [14 comments]
• Leading Designers to New Frontiers [1 comments]
• User Experience Week [2 comments]
• getting-a-forms138 [0 comments]
• IDEA 2008 [1 comments]
• Getting a Form's Structure Right [0 comments]
• IA Summit 09 - Plenary [6 comments]
• IA Summit 09 - Keynote [7 comments]
• IA Summit 09 - Day 1 [1 comments]
• IA Summit 09 - Day 2 [2 comments]
• IA Summit 09 - Day 3 [4 comments]
• A Wiser Interaction [2 comments]
• IDEA 2009 - Day 1 [6 comments]
• IDEA 2009 - Day 2 [1 comments]
• Engaging Interaction [0 comments]
• IA Summit 10 - Dan Roam Keynote [0 comments]
• IA Summit 10 - Richard Saul Wurman Keynote [0 comments]
• IA Summit 10 - Whitney Hess Keynote [8 comments]
• IA Summit 10 - Day 1 [0 comments]
• IA Summit 10 - Day 2 [6 comments]
• IA Summit 10 - Day 3 [3 comments]
• The Stranger's Long Neck [5 comments]

Comments made by Jeff Parks

• Brilliant article Sarah! I can recall telling a room of Vic… [1 points]
• Great article, Matt! I am also co-vice chairing an HCI grou… [0 points]
• I also use the pyramid analogy in speaking with clients. Ho… [1 points]
• A great interview, Liz! I have referred to Dr. Schwartz's w… [0 points]
• Clifton, Great article and thanks for sharing! I was Vic… [1 points]
• Kalle, Thank you for your feedback. I'm working on putting… [1 points]
• Great article, Andrew. From my own experience I wrote a Mic… [1 points]
• Terry, Several of the presentations can be found on the IA … [0 points]
• Hey Joost, I'm publishing and testing in Fire Fox and have … [0 points]
• While I agree with your point about users not knowing "back … [1 points]
• The other point that Don made during the conference was that… [0 points]
• Ryan - I'm accountable for the broken link -my apologies. I… [0 points]
• @Ryan and the rest of the community. We had many technical … [0 points]
• The best part about this initiative is the opportunity it pr… [1 points]
• You're most welcome Andrea! :) We'll be launching Day 2 fro… [0 points]
• You're most welcome Scott; I'm happy to hear you're enjoying… [0 points]
• You're most welcome, Paul! :) All three days coming soon - … [0 points]
• Apologies for my oversight, Juhani. I'll look to incorporat… [0 points]
• You're most welcome Candace! :) [0 points]
• @Stacy You're most welcome. :) We had some recording issues… [0 points]