Social
New Article up at Boxes and Arrows
by erin on 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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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
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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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
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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BJ Fogg and a bunch of other really smart people from Stanford are looking at the psychology of Facebook and how persuasion in the social environment affects behavior. They are collecting essays into a book and are curating it online in a public way. The table of contents is up for review and there is [...]
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As Christian and I start to get deeper into our book, we have discussed between ourselves and our editor, the idea of opening the process up to those interested in Social Patterns. We have created a wiki at designingsocialinterfaces.com and are starting to post the patterns we are writing as we work through the chapters. [...]
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There is a really good article in the San Francisco Chronicle today about the Community team at flickr – run by Heather Champ. The article discusses the dilemmas and decisions the team Heather leads makes when confronted with millions of people interacting and sometimes misbehaving. Part art, part rulebook, a lot of gut on just [...]
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patterns and joining the party
by erin on 09/20/2008
in Community,Interaction design,invitation,join,Social,Uncategorized
I am currently working on the suite of patterns around joining social sites. the patterns start with registration and then include, sign in, sign in continuity, welcome area, receive invitation, send invitation, sign out, private beta and the password anti-pattern. it’s been interesting writing these. my team at yahoo! worked on the registration redesign last [...]
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