A History of Patterns in User Experience Design
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...
Category: Interaction design
Systems Thinking / Designing Reading List
In the spring I will be teaching a Systems class at CCA. I will be integrating systems which covers systems, mapping, information architecture with social inter...
Systems Reading List
In the spring I will be teaching a Systems class at CCA. I will be integrating systems which covers systems, mapping, information architecture with social inter...
Protected: Student Work: Self Portrait Scrolling Stories
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Considering the cross device experience
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...
Working With a Pattern Library Day to Day
[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...
Reviewing Patterns for Use
[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...
How to write an interaction design pattern
[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...
How to identify interaction design patterns
[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...
Why have a design pattern library?
[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 ...
New Article up at Boxes and Arrows
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 – ...
neighborhoods and subcultures in social design
In writing our book, Designing Social Interfaces, we challenged ourselves to creating a social pattern language, much like Christopher Alexander created a patte...
The Questions We Ask
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...
Unintended Side Effects
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...
Slides from our talk
Our talk at Idea09 touched on a few key steps for building social experiences, a few of the most salient principles and a handful of the anti-patterns covered i...