Chiara Fox Ogan

Chiara Fox Ogan is a senior user experience designer for Adaptive Path. Chiara has developed successful information architectures for intranets, informational websites, and e-commerce sites for Fortune 100 and 500 companies. Chiara specializes in content analysis, metadata and taxonomy development, and building architectures from the bottom up.

Professional Background

Before joining Adaptive Path, Chiara served as the senior information architect for PeopleSoft, an enterprise software company. She implemented a unified information architecture across the public website, customer extranet, and partner extranet in a single CMS. The information architecture was later expanded to include 23 international sites. She also designed the metadata schema for use on all 26 websites. Before joining PeopleSoft, Chiara was an information architect at Argus Associates, a pioneering information architecture design firm.

Past clients and employers include Business Objects, Citysearch, EDS, Globo, IBM, Linden Labs, PeopleSoft, Sony, Target, UCSF Medical Center.

Chiara is an active member of the American Society of Information Science and Technology and ACM's local chapter of SIG-CHI, BayCHI. She is also a member of the Information Architecture Institute and serves as co-director of the Institute's IA Library. Chiara received her Master of Science degree in Library and Information Science from Simmons College. She spent ten years working in public and scientific libraries as a cataloger and reference librarian before devoting herself to the web full-time.

Past Appearances

June 16-18
Chiara Fox attended the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, CA.

May 2
Chiara Fox attended Vision to Voice: Leadership in the Global Age in Boston, MA.

March 19-22
Chiara Fox presented at the IA Summit in Memphis, TN.

October 13-16
Chiara Fox presented at UX Intensive in Copenhagen, Denmark.

September 26-27
Chiara Fox presented at EuroIA in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

August 12-15
Chiara Fox attended at UX Week in San Francisco, CA.

Feb 19 - 22
Chiara Fox presented at UXI in San Francisco, CA

November 12-15, 2007
Chiara Fox presented at Adaptive Path's UX Intensive conference in Vancouver, BC.

October 22-23, 2007
Chiara Fox attended She's Geeky in Mt. View, CA.

August 13-16, 2007
Chiara Fox spoke at UX Week in Washington, D.C.

June 18-21, 2007
Chiara Fox presented at UX Intensive in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

May 22-23, 2007
Chiara Fox attended the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, CA.

April 23-26, 2007
Chiara Fox presented at UX Intensive in Chicago, IL.

March 22-26, 2007
Chiara Fox presented a poster at IA Summit 2007 in Las Vegas, NV.

December 4, 2006
Chiara Fox spoke at WebBuilder 2.0 in Las Vegas, NV.

October 23-24, 2006
Chiara Fox attended Idea 2006 in Seattle, WA.

October 6-7, 2006
Chiara Fox spoke at SLA NorthWest Conference on Content Management, Vancouver, BC

August 14-17, 2006
Chiara Fox spoke at User Experience Week 2006, Washington, D.C.

May 17-18, 2006
Chiara Fox, Beyond Usability 2.0, Chicago, IL

April 27, 2006
Chiara Fox, Make Your CMS Work For You, San Francisco, CA

March 23-27, 2006
Chiara Fox, IA Summit, Vancouver, BC Canada