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by erin on 08/29/2010
Last week, Christian and I had the pleasure of doing our Designing Social Interfaces day long workshop as part of Adaptive Path’s UXWeek. We had a great time and had a terrific group of people participating. Super engaged and collaborative, we had a lot of cool ideas created during the day. We also got a [...]
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Go With the Flow :: Web Visions 2010, May20 View more presentations from erin malone. I gave a new talk today at Web Visions 2010. Called Go With the Flow, this talk covers ideas, techniques and optimization recommendations for customer acquisition, onboarding, engagement and virality in growing social sites. The second half of the talk [...]
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by erin on 05/14/2010
in Conferences,Designing Social Interfaces,Information Architecture,social patterns
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 design, social design and service design. The theme of the conference is Service. Design. Thinking. What I actually said may have been slightly different than [...]
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Heading out to Germany for the German IA Konfernz in Köln. I will be leading a workshop on Designing Social Interfaces – based on material from the book – on Thursday and will be the Keynote speaker on Friday morning. I am really looking forward to this. I am attempting to go early to spend [...]
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by erin on 05/04/2010
in Conferences,Designing Social Interfaces,Social,book,social patterns
Yesterday I led a 3 hour workshop on Designing Social In – Using Patterns, Practices and Anti-Patterns to Create Meaningful Social Experiences – at Web 2.0 in San Francisco. Slides posted here. Christian played assistant this time since he was prepping for a big talk today. I think it went well (although you have to [...]
by erin on 04/16/2010
in Designing Social Interfaces,Information design,social patterns
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 captions and spread them across an 18 page Tabloid size document that I offer here in PDF form. Enjoy
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by erin on 04/13/2010
At the recent IA Summit 2010, we showed a poster rather than giving a talk. The poster, describes visually, the evolution of our social taxonomy and the influences from others on that and the eventual diagram we have been showing. For folks who weren’t there, here is the diagram in all its glory. If you [...]
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by erin on 03/06/2010
in Career,Conferences,Designing Social Interfaces,Pattern Library
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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by erin on 12/16/2009
in Designing Social Interfaces,Interaction design,social patterns
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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by erin on 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 Interfaces [...]
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by erin on 10/30/2009
Designing Social Interfaces: 5 principles, 5 practices, 5 antipatterns View more presentations from erin malone. 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 [...]
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by erin on 10/08/2009
in Designing Social Interfaces,Information design,social patterns
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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by erin on 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 [...]
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by erin on 09/20/2009
in Conferences,Designing Social Interfaces,Interaction design,social patterns
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, [...]
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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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