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title: "World IA Day 2016 in Bristol"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/world-ia-day-2016-in-bristol-pw4kvx4yo
source_url: https://hidde.blog/world-ia-day-2016-in-bristol
type: article
source: "Hidde de Vries — hidde.blog"
published: 2026-05-31T07:48:50.710Z
updated: 2026-05-31T09:29:48.118Z
tags: ["ux"]
reading_time: 9
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# World IA Day 2016 in Bristol

**[Hidde de Vries — hidde.blog](https://daily.dev/sources/hiddedevries)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A write-up of World IA Day 2016 held in Bristol, covering talks from multiple speakers on information architecture (IA). Topics included a historical overview of IA's four paradigms (Classic, User-generated, Pervasive, and Inversion), physical prototyping for enterprise UX, how the BBC manages IA at scale, how Ordnance Survey uses IA commercially, and a keynote exploring whether 'architecting' is a verb and how architecture differs fundamentally from design.

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