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Identity, Privacy and Differences for Women Online

03.08.2010

Lately I have been thinking a lot about identity online and how things like age and gender affect how you approach projecting an online identity. Working with a startup that is creating opportunities for kids to be digital citizens with ownershop and accountability for their online identities made me wonder about what should be encouraged [...]

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Falling off the radar here but not there

03.06.2010

I have been super busy lately with client work, presentations and conferences and prepping for an upcoming portfolio review related to my photography work. I have a couple of deep posts about Identity and Using the Social Mania Cards in your work in progress and will get those finished soon but in the meantime, if [...]

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New Article up at Boxes and Arrows

12.23.2009

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 – covers the 5 practices section of the talk. Taken together with the article Christian wrote for ASIST, on the 5 principles and 5 anti-patterns, you have [...]

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neighborhoods and subcultures in social design

12.16.2009

In writing our book, Designing Social Interfaces, we challenged ourselves to creating a social pattern language, much like Christopher Alexander created a pattern language for building and architecture. We have followed the evolution of design patterns but looking back into A Pattern Language, there are some concepts that Alexander talks about that are directly applicable [...]

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The Questions We Ask

12.04.2009

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 some really tough questions at the end of the talk. I thought some of them were so good, I have been thinking about [...]

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Unintended Side Effects

11.21.2009

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 solve them. Most recently at Web 2.0, I was talking with a bunch of smart, interesting people and a few things have bubbled up that I [...]

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Web 2.0 NY – Designing Social Interfaces Workshop

11.19.2009

I attended Web 2.0 NY Expo this past week as a workshop presenter. I took the talk that Christian and I did at IDEA 09 and that I did at IxDA SF and fleshed it out into a 3 hour, hands on workshop. I believe it went well. Here are my slides:
Designing Social [...]

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Speaking about social interfaces at IxDA SF

10.30.2009

Designing Social Interfaces: 5 principles, 5 practices, 5 antipatterns
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Last night I spoke at the IxDA San Francisco October event. I did a little longer version of the talk than what Christian and I did at IDEA09 and I think it’s a better talk. The expansion riffed off what Christian did [...]

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Diagramming the Social Ecosystem

10.08.2009

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, patterns and principles. Back in 2007, when I was still at Yahoo! and Bryce Glass was on my team, we developed a diagram for our general manager to talk [...]

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Unveiling Social Mania: The Game at Idea 09

09.27.2009

What a rush!
As part of our (mine and Christian Crumlish) presentation at Idea 09, we were presenting from our book: Designing Social Interfaces – 5 Steps, 5 principles and 5 anti-patterns. The talk went well but the big deal was unveiling and playing the game.
While we were writing the book, we had discussed doing a [...]

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Slides from our talk

09.20.2009

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 in the book. A 40 minute talk barely taps into the breadth of content from the book, but it’s a nice teaser.
Designing Social Interfaces: 5 steps, 5 [...]

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The Book is on the press

09.10.2009

Designing Social Interfaces book cover
We got the final mechanical of the book cover in color a couple of days ago and then shortly after word that the entire book was sent to press. A couple of weeks from now I should be holding it in my hand. In the meantime, here’s the front and back cover.

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Join me at IDEA2009 on Sept 15-16

08.30.2009

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 previous versions of this conference but was never able to attend (working for the man, I was only allowed one conference a year and [...]

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New design, new patterns

08.20.2009

The Yahoo! Pattern library has launched a new design – to match the revamped design of the Yahoo! Developer Network. This was a project that originally started way before I left Yahoo! and was supposed to be part of the YDN overhaul project I led. But life and other projects often get in the way [...]

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