Here are a few more good articles/posts about this ongoing conversation about Identity and Google +. This is a hot potato and people need to speak out against the policies that Google has set forth. They are discriminatory and do not promote true social engagements. “Real Names” Policies Are an Abuse of Power Google+ and [...]
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More good posts about the Identity issues with Google +
by erin on 09/04/2011
Social Design workshop at UX Week San Francisco
by erin on 08/29/2010
Last week, Christian and I had the pleasure of doing our Designing Social Interfaces day long workshop as part of Adaptive Path’s UXWeek. We had a great time and had a terrific group of people participating. Super engaged and collaborative, we had a lot of cool ideas created during the day. We also got a [...]
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Go With the Flow :: Web Visions 2010, May20 View more presentations from erin malone. I gave a new talk today at Web Visions 2010. Called Go With the Flow, this talk covers ideas, techniques and optimization recommendations for customer acquisition, onboarding, engagement and virality in growing social sites. The second half of the talk [...]
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The Future is Already Here: Three Trends in IA
by erin on 05/14/2010
in Conferences,Designing Social Interfaces,Information Architecture,social patterns
Below is my opening keynote slides and the talk I wrote out which I gave at the German IA Conference in Cologne, Germany May 14, 2010. I speak about experience design, social design and service design. The theme of the conference is Service. Design. Thinking. What I actually said may have been slightly different than [...]
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Heading out to Germany for the German IA Konfernz in Köln. I will be leading a workshop on Designing Social Interfaces – based on material from the book – on Thursday and will be the Keynote speaker on Friday morning. I am really looking forward to this. I am attempting to go early to spend [...]
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Web 2.0 SF – O’Reilly Book Authors Meet and Greet 05/05/10
by erin on 05/04/2010
in book,Conferences,Designing Social Interfaces,Social,social patterns
Yesterday I led a 3 hour workshop on Designing Social In – Using Patterns, Practices and Anti-Patterns to Create Meaningful Social Experiences – at Web 2.0 in San Francisco. Slides posted here. Christian played assistant this time since he was prepping for a big talk today. I think it went well (although you have to [...]
By Popular Request – Page version of the Social Ecosystem Poster
by erin on 04/16/2010
in Designing Social Interfaces,Information design,social patterns
Several folks have asked for a more portable version (4.4mb pdf) of the evolution poster we presented at the IA Summit 2010. So I have taken the diagrams and captions and spread them across an 18 page Tabloid size document that I offer here in PDF form. Enjoy
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Evolution of a diagram – the IA Summit poster
by erin on 04/13/2010
At the recent IA Summit 2010, we showed a poster rather than giving a talk. The poster, describes visually, the evolution of our social taxonomy and the influences from others on that and the eventual diagram we have been showing. For folks who weren’t there, here is the diagram in all its glory. If you [...]
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Falling off the radar here but not there
by erin on 03/06/2010
in Career,Conferences,Designing Social Interfaces,Pattern Library
I have been super busy lately with client work, presentations and conferences and prepping for an upcoming portfolio review related to my photography work. I have a couple of deep posts about Identity and Using the Social Mania Cards in your work in progress and will get those finished soon but in the meantime, if [...]
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New Article up at Boxes and Arrows
by erin on 12/23/2009
An article companion to part of the talk I have been giving is finally up at Boxes and Arrows. The topic – 5 steps to building social experiences – covers the 5 practices section of the talk. Taken together with the article Christian wrote for ASIST, on the 5 principles and 5 anti-patterns, you have [...]
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neighborhoods and subcultures in social design
by erin on 12/16/2009
in Designing Social Interfaces,Interaction design,social patterns
In writing our book, Designing Social Interfaces, we challenged ourselves to creating a social pattern language, much like Christopher Alexander created a pattern language for building and architecture. We have followed the evolution of design patterns but looking back into A Pattern Language, there are some concepts that Alexander talks about that are directly applicable [...]
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A couple of weeks ago I gave the 5 Principles, 5 Practices, 5 Anti-Patterns talk to the IxDA Los Angeles group. It was a great group of people and they asked me some really tough questions at the end of the talk. I thought some of them were so good, I have been thinking about [...]
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Unintended Side Effects
by erin on 11/21/2009
in Information design,Interaction design,Social,social patterns
I have been presenting the material from our book over the last several months and have been asked questions about some of the anti-patterns and how we avoid or solve them. Most recently at Web 2.0, I was talking with a bunch of smart, interesting people and a few things have bubbled up that I [...]
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Web 2.0 NY – Designing Social Interfaces Workshop
by erin on 11/19/2009
I attended Web 2.0 NY Expo this past week as a workshop presenter. I took the talk that Christian and I did at IDEA 09 and that I did at IxDA SF and fleshed it out into a 3 hour, hands on workshop. I believe it went well. Here are my slides: Designing Social Interfaces [...]
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Speaking about social interfaces at IxDA SF
by erin on 10/30/2009
Designing Social Interfaces: 5 principles, 5 practices, 5 antipatterns View more presentations from erin malone. Last night I spoke at the IxDA San Francisco October event. I did a little longer version of the talk than what Christian and I did at IDEA09 and I think it’s a better talk. The expansion riffed off what [...]
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