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Information design

Unintended Side Effects

by erin on 11/21/2009

in Information design, Interaction design, Social, social patterns

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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Diagramming the Social Ecosystem

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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ia summit 2009 talk on designing social interfaces

by erin on 03/23/2009

in Information Architecture, Information design, Interaction design, Pattern Library, Social

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Christian Crumlish and I brought out some of the material we have been working on for you book and gave a talk at the IA Summit. We tried to provide a handful of real world scenarios with which a designer might find themselves in and then offer some [...]

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Words to design by

by erin on 02/26/2009

in Information Architecture, Information design

At the Interactions 09 conference in Vancouver, Luke Wroblewski gave an interesting talk about the processes he and his team used to redesign the Yahoo! homepage. It was an interesting talk not so much for the outcome but for how he applied and talked about methods, best practices and patterns. His use of these kinds [...]

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yes we can! wow!

by erin on 11/05/2008

in Information design

last night as the polls were closing and the election data was coming in, I stayed up to date by flipping around the tv channels AND visiting several websites.
I was impressed by the interactive maps and information design of the NYTimes and MSNBC. Both sites had very clear information, fun interactions to get more specific [...]

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IA Summit 2008 Here we come

by erin on 12/16/2007

in Conferences, Information design, Interaction design, Pattern Library

Christian Crumlish, Lucas Pettinati and I submitted a pre-conference workshop and we just got notice that we were accepted.
Watch for more info but we will be conducting a full day workshop with hands on exercises. You will learn how to build and care for a pattern library and how, with that library and a code [...]

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Seeking the future through the past

by erin on 12/13/2007

in Information Architecture, Information design, Interaction design, Uncategorized

My friend, Alex Wright, an IA at the NY Times, recently published an article, Friending, Ancient or Otherwise on the NY Times. The article looks at the recent trends in social networking and friending, through the lens of ancient tribal practices. It’s interesting to see that technology is unconsciously manipulated to still meet basic [...]

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How to Submit a Proposal

by erin on 12/02/2007

in Conferences, Information Architecture, Information design, Interaction design

I just finished as a reviewer for the IA Summit submissions and I have a whole new respect for how difficult it is to select and craft a program for a conference.
That said, I think I also learned a few things about how to better create a proposal for a submission. I think these thoughts [...]

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the importance of a common language

by erin on 11/20/2007

in Information design, My job, UED

I am working on writing a set of use cases for a new project and as I am writing it occurs to me that the team I am working with calls all the different parts of the site and the content different things.
I have been struggling with how to write these use cases because of [...]

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