Why have a design pattern library?
[author’s note: This is part one in a multi-part series. Based on material I developed with Christian Crumlish and Lucas Pettinati for a workshop we gave ...
Author: erin
chair IXD bfa program at California College of the Arts :: printmaker and author
Identity, Privacy and Differences for Women Online
Lately I have been thinking a lot about identity online and how things like age and gender affect how you approach projecting an online identity. Working with a...
Falling off the radar here but not there
I have been super busy lately with client work, presentations and conferences and prepping for an upcoming portfolio review related to my photography work. I ha...
New Article up at Boxes and Arrows
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 – ...
neighborhoods and subcultures in social design
In writing our book, Designing Social Interfaces, we challenged ourselves to creating a social pattern language, much like Christopher Alexander created a patte...
The Questions We Ask
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...
Unintended Side Effects
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...
Web 2.0 NY – Designing Social Interfaces Workshop
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 ...
Speaking about social interfaces at IxDA SF
Designing Social Interfaces: 5 principles, 5 practices, 5 antipatterns View more presentations from erin malone. Last night I spoke at the IxDA San Francisco Oc...
Diagramming the Social Ecosystem
[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...
Unveiling Social Mania: The Game at Idea 09
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...
Slides from our talk
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 i...
The Book is on the press
We got the final mechanical of the book cover in color a couple of days ago and then shortly after word that the entire book was sent to press. A couple of we...
Join me at IDEA2009 on Sept 15-16
A couple of weeks from now I will be attending the IDEA conference, put on by the IA Institute, for the first time. Over the years I have heard about the previo...