Off to Germany – 05/13 – 05/15

05.09.2010

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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Web 2.0 SF – O’Reilly Book Authors Meet and Greet 05/05/10

05.04.2010

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 [...]

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How to write an interaction design pattern

04.20.2010

[Part 4 of a series on Patterns. How to write patterns once you have identified them.] Writing interaction design patterns can seem easy on the surface. After all, aren’t you just documenting an interaction snippet or module or component? Sort of. It looks easy on the surface, but the actual process of writing the pattern [...]

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By Popular Request – Page version of the Social Ecosystem Poster

04.16.2010

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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Evolution of a diagram – the IA Summit poster

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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How to identify interaction design patterns

04.05.2010

[Part 3 of a series on Patterns. Understanding the concept of the reusable solution.] Identifying patterns in architecture The first thing you have to do before you can write an interaction design pattern is to understand how to identify patterns in the wild. When is something a pattern, when is it a principle or a [...]

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Where did the idea of patterns come from?

03.25.2010

[Part 2 of a series on Patterns. Parts of this post excerpted in part from my work in chapter 1 of Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Practices and Patterns for the Social Web] A brief history. The notion of using interaction design patterns in the user experience design process follows the model that computer software programming [...]

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Why have a design pattern library?

03.22.2010

[author's note: This is part one in a multi-part series. Based on material I developed with Christian Crumlish and Lucas Pettinati for a workshop we gave at the IA Summit in 2008 and 2009 and at Interactions 2009, I have expanded this information into a multi-day workshop and this series of articles. Once the series [...]

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Early bird registration for Web Visions ends March 31

03.18.2010

WebVisions: Ten Years of Exploring the Future

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Identity, Privacy and Differences for Women Online

03.08.2010

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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Falling off the radar here but not there

03.06.2010

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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New Article up at Boxes and Arrows

12.23.2009

An article companion to part of the talk I have been giving is finally up at Boxes and Arrows. The topic – 5 steps to building social experiences – covers the 5 practices section of the talk. Taken together with the article Christian wrote for ASIST, on the 5 principles and 5 anti-patterns, you have [...]

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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 [...]

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The Questions We Ask

12.04.2009

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

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 [...]

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