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Category: Information design

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IxD Foundations Reading List

Posted on 01/17/2019 by erin

The past two falls have found me teaching the basic Interaction Design Foundations course at CCA. It’s great fun and we get into the basics of task flows,...

Information Architecture/Information design/Interaction design/Teaching/User Experience/UX

Systems Reading List

Posted on 12/09/2016 by erin

In the spring I will be teaching the Systems class at CCA for the third time. I will be integrating systems which covers systems, mapping, information architect...

Brand/Information design/Teaching/User Experience/UX

Visual Interaction Design Reading List

Posted on 09/01/2015 by erin

UPDATED 2019 – over the last four years, I’ve been teaching Visual Interaction Design at CCA (California College of the Arts) – which is a cra...

Information design

The Ultimate in Grids

Posted on 04/25/2011 by erin

I have long been a proponent of grid systems in design. After all, I started out as a print designer working on annual reports and other multipage projects. The...

Designing Social Interfaces/Information design

By Popular Request – Page version of the Social Ecosystem Poster

Posted on 04/16/2010 by erin

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 ca...

Information design/Interaction design/Social

Unintended Side Effects

Posted on 11/21/2009 by erin

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...

Designing Social Interfaces/Information design

Diagramming the Social Ecosystem

Posted on 10/08/2009 by erin

One of the things we have been doing since way before we started the book, was to visualize the social ecosystem and the inter-relationships between categories,...

Information Architecture/Information design/Interaction design/Pattern Library/Social

ia summit 2009 talk on designing social interfaces

Posted on 03/23/2009 by erin

Designing Social Interfaces View more presentations from Erin Malone. Christian Crumlish and I brought out some of the material we have been working on for you ...

Information Architecture/Information design

Words to design by

Posted on 02/26/2009 by erin

At the Interactions 09 conference in Vancouver, Luke Wroblewski gave an interesting talk about the processes he and his team used to redesign the Yahoo! homepag...

Information design

yes we can! wow!

Posted on 11/05/2008 by erin

last night as the polls were closing and the election data was coming in, I stayed up to date by flipping around the tv channels AND visiting several websites. ...

Conferences/Information design/Interaction design/Pattern Library

IA Summit 2008 Here we come

Posted on 12/16/2007 by erin

Christian Crumlish, Lucas Pettinati and I submitted a pre-conference workshop and we just got notice that we were accepted. Watch for more info but we will be c...

Information Architecture/Information design/Interaction design

Seeking the future through the past

Posted on 12/13/2007 by erin

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 t...

Conferences/Information Architecture/Information design/Interaction design

How to Submit a Proposal

Posted on 12/02/2007 by erin

I just finished as a reviewer for the IA Summit submissions and I have a whole new respect for how difficult it is to select and craft a program for a conferenc...

Information design

the importance of a common language

Posted on 11/20/2007 by erin

I am working on writing a set of use cases for a new project and as I am writing it occurs to me that the team I am working with calls all the different parts o...

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