You make complex things simple
Every day you turn a flood of information into clear structures that thousands of people rely on.
World Information Architecture Day · Uzbekistan
has been hosting WIAD since 2012. WIAD is the main stage where information architects from all over the world share their experience.
The World Information Architecture Association is a non-profit professional organization. We discover and share the best practices of organizing data and navigating it.
World IA Day happens on the same day on every continent, from San Francisco and Buenos Aires to Tokyo and Sydney. White dots are cities where communities have already hosted WIAD; the blue one is Tashkent, our first WIAD in 2027.
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Information architecture is the craft of creating and mapping the digital routes people travel. If you design navigation, build categorizations, tune search or research user journeys, you already practice information architecture.
We take scattered documents, pages and data and shape them into a clear structure where everything has its place.
Choose your format: come to the venue, join the livestream, speak on stage or support WIAD as a partner.
WIAD is not just one day a year. The WIAA community meets online all year round, and materials from past meetings stay available. Choose where to start.
On March 6, 2027, Tashkent will host the first in-person WIAD in Uzbekistan: a day of talks, workshops and meeting people who design information. A small team is preparing it, and it still has open spots.
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Five reasons to take up information architecture, or to admit you already practice it.
Every day you turn a flood of information into clear structures that thousands of people rely on.
UX, content, data, library science and development: information architecture connects them all.
Navigation, search, menus and filters are all decisions made by an information architect.
The more information and AI services there are, the more we need people who can organize them.
WIAA, World IA Day in dozens of cities and colleagues all over the world who share their experience.