social patterns

Go With the Flow

by erin on 05/20/2010

in Conferences,Designing Social Interfaces,social patterns

Go With the Flow :: Web Visions 2010, May20 View more presentations from erin malone. I gave a new talk today at Web Visions 2010. Called Go With the Flow, this talk covers ideas, techniques and optimization recommendations for customer acquisition, onboarding, engagement and virality in growing social sites. The second half of the talk [...]

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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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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 Interfaces [...]

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Diagramming the Social Ecosystem

by erin on 10/08/2009

in Designing Social Interfaces,Information design,social patterns

[singlepic id=29 w=320 h=240 float=left]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 [...]

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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 [...]

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