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Category: Interaction 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,...

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/Systems

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Interaction design/Social

New Article up at Boxes and Arrows

Posted on 12/23/2009 by erin

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 – ...

Designing Social Interfaces/Interaction design

neighborhoods and subcultures in social design

Posted on 12/16/2009 by erin

In writing our book, Designing Social Interfaces, we challenged ourselves to creating a social pattern language, much like Christopher Alexander created a patte...

Interaction design

The Questions We Ask

Posted on 12/04/2009 by erin

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...

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...

Conferences/Designing Social Interfaces/Interaction design

Slides from our talk

Posted on 09/20/2009 by erin

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...

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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.
#womenofixd #womendesigners #hiddenhistories #loststories

4 January 2023 @ 11:45 pm

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