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Identity, Privacy and Differences for Women Online

by erin on 03/08/2010

in Identity, Privacy, Social

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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neighborhoods and subcultures in social design

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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The Questions We Ask

by erin on 12/04/2009

in Interaction design, social patterns

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

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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Web 2.0 NY – Designing Social Interfaces Workshop

by erin on 11/19/2009

in Conferences, Designing Social Interfaces, social patterns

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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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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Unveiling Social Mania: The Game at Idea 09

by erin on 09/27/2009

in Designing Social Interfaces, social patterns

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

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, 5 [...]

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