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Category: User Experience

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

[singlepic id=29 w=320 h=240 float=left]One of the things we have been doing since way before we started the book, was to visualize the social ecosystem and the...

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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Spring flowers and sweet grass everywhere in McLar Spring flowers and sweet grass everywhere in McLaren park. It’s the time of year sunny turns into a cow grazing on the grass #dogwalk #sunny #mclarenpark
Becoming more real with rules, more detailed cards Becoming more real with rules, more detailed cards and boards #ccaixd
Play testing in class - still low fidelity and wor Play testing in class - still low fidelity and working out mechanics #ixdcca
Making games in IXD class - this was the start #cc Making games in IXD class - this was the start #ccaixd
Walking around Holly Park - a mural that I’ve se Walking around Holly Park - a mural that I’ve seen dozens of times but this time I suddenly see my friend Totoro in the bottom corner. Added a touch of delight to a misty overcast walk. #dogwalk #hollyparkcircle
While I was at the conference - Sunny was having h While I was at the conference - Sunny was having her own spa vacation in San Francisco #waghotels #ixd23
Ixd23 #zurich Ixd23 #zurich
The women of interaction design panel #ixd23 #zuri The women of interaction design panel #ixd23 #zurich
This old town is so cute - love walking around and This old town is so cute - love walking around and seeing the life - wish sf downtown was as lively. #zurich
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MASTODON POSTS

Women of IXD Deep Cuts newsletter #6 content is posted to the Women of IXD website.Learn about Lucy Suchman & her work at Xerox, effectively creating the sub-discipline of enterprise ethnography and prototyping in context. I hated to have cut this from the book (although these contributions are discussed in the narrative - just not a lengthy profile).Hard to believe that back then, this kind of work wasn't integrated into the IXD and UX process.
https://womenofixd.com/lucy-suchman#WomenOfIXD #IXDHistory

24 March 2023 @ 6:35 pm

Still time to sign up and explore tactics for designing safer online digital experiences. #iac23

21 March 2023 @ 4:24 am

I recently posted the profile from Deep Cuts#5 to the Women of IXD website - Maureen Stone - Color Research for Digital Practices - https://womenofixd.com/maureen-stone#WomenOfIXD #IXDHistory

15 March 2023 @ 11:25 pm

The latest Women of IXD Deep Cuts newsletter is out: Lucy Suchman: Bringing Ethnography into the Enterprise - https://mailchi.mp/3ff4e81465b4/women-of-ixd-deep-cuts-bringing-ethnography-into-enterprise#WomanofIXD #IXDHistory

13 March 2023 @ 8:31 pm

Even though we only lost an hour, I feel like I lost the whole day. I seem to be getting nothing done and it’s already almost 5pm.

12 March 2023 @ 11:18 pm

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