dezining interactions — thoughts about design, patterns and code

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]