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Designing Social Interfaces/Interaction design

Welcome Area

Posted on 08/06/2009 by erin

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

Posted on 08/04/2009 by erin

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

Posted on 06/29/2009 by erin

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

Posted on 03/24/2009 by erin

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

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 ...

Conferences/Interaction design/Social

Designing Social Interfaces Core Conversation & Handout

Posted on 03/16/2009 by erin

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

Posted on 01/25/2009 by erin

(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

Posted on 01/05/2009 by erin

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

Posted on 12/06/2008 by erin

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

Posted on 12/01/2008 by erin

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

Posted on 09/20/2008 by erin

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

Posted on 07/09/2008 by erin

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

Posted on 06/05/2008 by erin

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

Posted on 05/03/2008 by erin

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...

Interaction design

Graceful Interfaces

Posted on 05/01/2008 by erin

Over the last couple of days, I have done some online shopping and been pleasantly surprised by a couple of small interface behaviors that made my life easier a...

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3 June 2025 @ 7:14 pm

Today is Transgender Day of Visibility and I just posted the latest Deep Cuts profile to Women in IXD about Sasha Costanza-Chock and her work around Design Justice. https://womenofixd.com/stories/sasha-costanza-chock
#TransDayOfVisibility

31 March 2025 @ 7:16 pm

Today in San Francisco from 12-4pm CCAs Spring Craft fair - I’m there with Linocuts, cards, tshirts and other stuff. Come check it out at 145 Hooper St. SF
#8PawPress

15 March 2025 @ 6:57 pm

It's the start of Women's History Month and my newsletter of women of IXD deep cuts is back to celebrate the stories of women in Interaction Design.
Today meet Kaaren Hanson - https://mailchi.mp/4a9d46df003f/changing-how-design-is-done-from-the-inside-out-kaaren-hanson

1 March 2025 @ 11:45 pm

Our next speaker for the Interactive & New Media Lecture series at CCA - sponsored by the IXD program - is Professor Rama Hoetzlein. Rama teaches a variety of classes here at the college and is currently experimenting with AI. Come check out his lecture: Wednesday February 267pmLive in the Nave Presentation Spaceat CCA 145 Hooper Street in San Francsico.Register for free at Eventbrite - https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/1247437582389?aff=oddtdtcreator

17 February 2025 @ 7:52 pm

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