socialpatterns

Social Design workshop at UX Week San Francisco

by erin on 08/29/2010

in Conferences,Designing Social Interfaces,social patterns

Last week, Christian and I had the pleasure of doing our Designing Social Interfaces day long workshop as part of Adaptive Path’s UXWeek. We had a great time and had a terrific group of people participating. Super engaged and collaborative, we had a lot of cool ideas created during the day. We also got a [...]

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Speaking about social interfaces at IxDA SF

by erin on 10/30/2009

in Designing Social Interfaces,social patterns

Designing Social Interfaces: 5 principles, 5 practices, 5 antipatterns View more presentations from erin malone. Last night I spoke at the IxDA San Francisco October event. I did a little longer version of the talk than what Christian and I did at IDEA09 and I think it’s a better talk. The expansion riffed off what [...]

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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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