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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...

Conferences/Designing Social Interfaces/Information Architecture

The Future is Already Here: Three Trends in IA

Posted on 05/14/2010 by erin

Below is my opening keynote slides and the talk I wrote out which I gave at the German IA Conference in Cologne, Germany May 14, 2010. I speak about experience ...

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...

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...

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...

Information Architecture/Pattern Library

Where did the idea of patterns come from?

Posted on 03/25/2010 by erin

[Part 2 of a series on Patterns. Parts of this post excerpted in part from my work in chapter 1 of Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Practices and Patter...

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...

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,...

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...

Conferences/Designing Social Interfaces/Information Architecture

Join me at IDEA2009 on Sept 15-16

Posted on 08/30/2009 by erin

A couple of weeks from now I will be attending the IDEA conference, put on by the IA Institute, for the first time. Over the years I have heard about the previo...

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...

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