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Speaking about social interfaces at IxDA SF

by erin on 10/30/2009

in Designing Social Interfaces, social patterns

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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Welcome Area

by erin on 08/06/2009

in Designing Social Interfaces, Interaction design, social patterns

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 A Pattern Language is “Reception Welcomes You” which I find quite relevant when thinking about designing for the web. It is applicable for the social experience but is also appropriate for other [...]

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The Information Architecture of Social Experience Design

by erin on 08/05/2009

in Designing Social Interfaces, Uncategorized

My coauthor for the book, Christian Crumlish, has recently published an article in the ASIST Bulletin in which he shares some of the principles we talk about in the new book. Additionally he fleshes out the framework we cover and talks about the kinds of patterns found in each node of the architecture. It’s a [...]

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Deep in social thoughts

by erin on 09/17/2008

in Community, Pattern Library, Social

apologies for how quiet I have been for the last several weeks. I have been deep in the thick of writing and boy is it fun.
The first chapter of our book, Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Patterns and Best Practices sets some context and a bit of history – which if you know me at all [...]

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