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Conferences/Designing Social Interfaces/Interaction design

Slides from our talk

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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...

Designing Social Interfaces/Interaction design

Welcome Area

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Many of the patterns in Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language offer advice and food for thought when designing the social experience. Pattern #149 in...

Interaction design/Pattern Library/Tools

Evolving Design Patterns

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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...

Interaction design/Tools

Making Experience Themes

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This past week, we conducted a two day working session with one of our clients. In this working session we created a set of Experience Themes using the method p...

Conferences/Information Architecture/Interaction design

defining a language of critique

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In Jesse James Garrett’s closing plenary at the IA Summit he challenged us to consider a way to critique our work and to develop a language of critique. O...

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

ia summit 2009 talk on designing social interfaces

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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 ...

Conferences/Interaction design/Social

Designing Social Interfaces Core Conversation & Handout

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We had a core conversation at SXSW on Sunday which was quite interesting to me and I hope interesting to people attending. The audience brought up some great qu...

Interaction design

10 most common misconceptions of user experience design

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(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 exper...

Information Architecture/Interaction design/Tools

Expanding the toolset to include Fireworks

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As I have made the transition to consulting and back to hands on work, I find that the tools I have been using are insufficient for my needs. I can wireframe an...

Interaction design

The New MFA in Interaction Design at School of Visual Arts in NYC

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The School of Visual Arts is taking applications for its very first MFA in Interaction Design. I am proud to say that my friend and former colleague at Boxes an...

Community/Interaction design/Social

Writing and Styling and Posting, oh my

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As the writing of the book hits a good momentum, we are starting to share our work with our editors and the patterns with the public. It’s an interesting ...

Community/Interaction design/Social

patterns and joining the party

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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,...

Career/Interaction design/Life

in which all is revealed about her new adventure

So folks are asking about what the next adventure is and where I am going. I can finally share… On August 1st, the partners of BranchLogic – Bruce C...

Information Architecture/Interaction design/Pattern Library/Yahoo!

Yahoo! Design Stencils

Earlier this year, as part of our workshop at the IA Summit, we made a robust set of design stencils that map to the Yahoo! Pattern Library and the Yahoo! User ...

Interaction design/Yahoo!

Y! OS Finally Announced

Last year, my team was working in the Platform division and working on creating the social media platform for Yahoo! This included components related to identit...

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about erin malone

My expertise is developing and designing interactive experiences—software and web applications and tools—that enable people to be more productive and efficient in their life and work. I have worked closely with and directed the efforts of interaction designers, visual designers, user researchers, technologists, technical writers and information architects across various product efforts, brand initiatives and interactive projects at Yahoo!, AOL, AltaVista and other companies.
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