The Janus Press: Claire Van Vliet
[The last paper I have from graduate school. The class was 20th Century Fine Printing.] Expressive freedom has long been a hallmark of the private press and is ...
Author: erin
current: experience matters design :: senior level interaction design and systems strategy consulting
former partner, tangible user experience; Yahoo! founder of the public and internal Yahoo! pattern library. design director of ued teams responsible for designing solutions across key yahoo! platforms: social media, personalization, membership and vertical search.
The Influence of William Morris
[This is another paper I wrote in graduate school for my 20th Century Fine Printing history course. The original was written in 1993.] Colophon for the Kemscott...
The Constructed Letter
[February 2024] I wrote this paper in graduate school for a History of the Book class I took in the School of Printing Carey Library with Professor David Pankow...
A History of Patterns in User Experience Design
UPDATE February 8, 2024I updated the diagram recently after working on my book about the history of interaction design and the contributions of women to the fie...
Shutting down Experience Matters Design
I am in the process of shutting down the leftovers of my consulting practice. No one tells you how much work it is to shutter a business. Everyone gives you adv...
The wicked problem that is today’s social ecosystem
It is generally agreed upon by experts across a variety of disciplines[1] that the current state of affairs with the current monopoly of giant social media comp...
The Origin & The Significance of the Alphabet
[February 2021] I wrote this paper in graduate school for a History of the Book class I took in the School of Printing Carey Library with Professor David P...
Lost Histories
Back in February 2001, I attended a design history conference—specifically geared to graphic design history—but at the end, as I wrote up my thoughts on the lec...
Foreseeing the Future: The legacy of Vannevar Bush
– Previously published on Boxes and Arrows, 2002 In 1945 a seminal article appeared in The Atlantic Monthly. Titled, “As We May Think,” the article’s auth...
Diagramming Systemic Racism
One of the projects I started at ADL and never finished, due to it not being core to the mission of ADL, was the visualization and modeling of systemic racism a...
Remembering My Father — through music
Rick Malone: 08/09/1940-01/18/22 I read this at my father’s memorial service, March 17, 2022. Most people in attendance were from his theater family and many of...
Finding some old stuff
In 2016 a bunch of us gathered together with folks from IXDA SF to reminisce and record our collective history from the beginnings of the dot com boom and bust ...
Technology—A Passing Threat
[February 2021] I wrote this short piece in graduate school—my first year—when I thought I would still be a graphic designer when I finished school. I think muc...
Donate time, donate money for social justice
If you are looking for ways to put your User Experience Design skills to use this summer consider reaching out and volunteering for one of the various Civil Rig...
Using Modeling to Understand What’s Happening Within a System
In my piece, Using Mapping to Scope a System, I covered the process of using Mind Maps, Cluster Maps and Concept Maps/Models to help you scope the boundaries of...