designpatterns

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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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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