My coauthor for the book, Christian Crumlish, has recently published an article in the ASIST Bulletin in which he shares some of the principles we talk about in the new book. Additionally he fleshes out the framework we cover and talks about the kinds of patterns found in each node of the architecture. It’s a [...]
(meant to blog this when it came out and obviously I forgot) whitney hess writes a timely and well thought out article about common misconceptions in user experience design. I am quoted twice in the piece. Several of my peeps are quoted as well. Whitney did a great job crafting the piece around all these [...]
Folks who know me, know that I spend most of my spare time being a photographer. I spend time out photographing landscapes and other things that interest me to stay creatively fulfilled. I spend hours and hours on the computer in the digital darkroom – which was supposed to make our lives easier – but [...]
I am currently working on the suite of patterns around joining social sites. the patterns start with registration and then include, sign in, sign in continuity, welcome area, receive invitation, send invitation, sign out, private beta and the password anti-pattern. it’s been interesting writing these. my team at yahoo! worked on the registration redesign last [...]
this new blog is on wordpress and I am still figuring out how it all works – specifically accepting comments. so, apologies if you have tried to comment and been unsuccessful – I am working to figure out where all the settings are. Many years using MT had me trained in that system of settings. [...]
My friend, Alex Wright, an IA at the NY Times, recently published an article, Friending, Ancient or Otherwise on the NY Times. The article looks at the recent trends in social networking and friending, through the lens of ancient tribal practices. It’s interesting to see that technology is unconsciously manipulated to still meet basic human [...]