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Category: Pattern Library

Interaction design/Pattern Library/Systems/User Experience

A History of Patterns in User Experience Design

Posted on 03/28/2017 by erin

As part of my classes that I teach at CCA, interaction design patterns come up. Sometimes in their simple form of elements as captured in a style guide and some...

Interaction design/Mobile/Pattern Library

Considering the cross device experience

Posted on 10/24/2011 by erin

I have been super busy lately working on the beginnings of a Mobile Pattern Library for a client. This work involves a lot of auditing applications. I am lookin...

Conferences/Pattern Library

Patterns Talk for An Event Apart

Posted on 08/20/2010 by erin

Last month I was one of the speakers at An Event Apart, Minneapolis. It was a fantastic experience and I highly recommend it. If it’s at all in your budge...

Interaction design/Pattern Library

Working With a Pattern Library Day to Day

Posted on 07/29/2010 by erin

[Part 7 of a series on Patterns. Working with a Pattern Library.] Patterns, Components, and Code, Oh My! Ok, so now you have a pattern library. Now what? Ultima...

Pattern Library

Organizing your pattern libary

Posted on 06/15/2010 by erin

[Part 6 of a series on Patterns. Organizing the pattern library for a design team.] Organizing a pattern library is like organizing any other large body of cont...

Interaction design/Pattern Library

Reviewing Patterns for Use

Posted on 05/26/2010 by erin

[Part 5 of a series on Patterns. Developing a quality system.] Once you have a collection of patterns they should be reviewed by the team or designated represen...

Pattern Library

The news is out – Yahoo! Pattern Library finding a new home

Posted on 05/12/2010 by erin

The Yahoo! Pattern Library, that I founded, thanks to the insight of Irene Au (now at Google) will be moving homes from the Yahoo! Developer Network to uipatter...

Interaction design/Pattern Library/Tools

How to write an interaction design pattern

Posted on 04/20/2010 by erin

[Part 4 of a series on Patterns. How to write patterns once you have identified them.] Writing interaction design patterns can seem easy on the surface. After a...

Interaction design/Pattern Library

How to identify interaction design patterns

Posted on 04/05/2010 by erin

[Part 3 of a series on Patterns. Understanding the concept of the reusable solution.] Identifying patterns in architecture The first thing you have to do before...

Information Architecture/Pattern Library

Where did the idea of patterns come from?

Posted on 03/25/2010 by erin

[Part 2 of a series on Patterns. Parts of this post excerpted in part from my work in chapter 1 of Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Practices and Patter...

Interaction design/Pattern Library

Why have a design pattern library?

Posted on 03/22/2010 by erin

[author’s note: This is part one in a multi-part series. Based on material I developed with Christian Crumlish and Lucas Pettinati for a workshop we gave ...

Career/Conferences/Designing Social Interfaces/Pattern Library

Falling off the radar here but not there

Posted on 03/06/2010 by erin

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 ha...

Pattern Library/Yahoo!

New design, new patterns

Posted on 08/20/2009 by erin

The Yahoo! Pattern library has launched a new design – to match the revamped design of the Yahoo! Developer Network. This was a project that originally st...

Interaction design/Pattern Library/Tools

Evolving Design Patterns

Posted on 08/04/2009 by erin

A few weeks ago, I attended the UX Book club event here in San Francisco. The book in discussion was A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander. It was a livel...

Conferences/Pattern Library/Social

Designing Social Interfaces – the Web 2.0 Expo version

Posted on 03/31/2009 by erin

Social Patterns Talk – Web 2.0 version View more presentations from Erin Malone. We gave a 3 hour workshop this morning at Web 2.0. Expanded info about th...

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MASTODON POSTS

The subject of my newsletter #2 was Mabel Addis, a school teacher who was enlisted to work with IBM to develop narrative educational computer games in the mid 1960's.
I just published her story on the website: https://womenofixd.com/mabel-addis#womenofixd #ixddesignhistory
Newsletter #3 will come out Monday. Signup on the homepage.

26 January 2023 @ 7:37 pm

Newsletter authors: Do you post your newsletter to your website? As is or reformatted? How soon from sending out as an email do you publish on your site (if you do)? I'm trying to find the right cadence of newsletter to site posting and value to subscribers. Any advice appreciated.

17 January 2023 @ 5:28 am

The second edition newsletter went out today. Women of IXD: Deep Cuts #2 - Mabel Addis & the first interactive computer game - https://mailchi.mp/0c47ba3faaa8/women-of-ixd-deep-cuts-2-mabel-addis-the-first-interactive-computer-game #womenofixd #ixddesignhistory #computergamedesignhistory

16 January 2023 @ 11:48 pm

I've just published the profile on Ángela Ruiz Robles to my website. This was my first Deep Cuts newsletter. Coming bi-monthly to your email and then later to the website. https://womenofixd.com/angela-ruiz-robles

16 January 2023 @ 6:50 pm

I started sending out my Women of IXD: Deep Cuts newsletter this week with a piece about Ángela Ruiz Robles. Bi-monthly newsletter containing the stories and profiles of the women in the field I had to cut from the book due to word-count constraints and narrative flow.
You can subscribe at the bottom of the homepage at Women of IXD - https://womenofixd.com/ - and get the stories in your inbox.
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4 January 2023 @ 11:45 pm

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