New design, new patterns
The Yahoo! Pattern library has launched a new design – to match the revamped design of the Yahoo! Developer Network. This was a project that originally st...
Author: erin
chair IXD bfa program at California College of the Arts :: printmaker and author
Time to Vote for SXSW Presos
It’s that time of year to slog through the long list of thousands of ideas for SXSW presentation. Fortunately, you can cut to the chase and click this lin...
Welcome Area
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...
The Information Architecture of Social Experience Design
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...
Evolving Design Patterns
A few weeks ago, I attended the UX Book club event here in San Francisco. The book in discussion was A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander. It was a livel...
Making Experience Themes
This past week, we conducted a two day working session with one of our clients. In this working session we created a set of Experience Themes using the method p...
Thinking about games
With the delivery of the book manuscript to our editor and it moving into copy editing and production, we have started thinking about some of the associated thi...
Pre-order on Amazon
Our book stub is finally on Amazon. It’s really real – the whole process is surreal to me. But you can pre-order the Designing Social Interfaces boo...
Designing Social Interfaces – the Web 2.0 Expo version
Social Patterns Talk – Web 2.0 version View more presentations from Erin Malone. We gave a 3 hour workshop this morning at Web 2.0. Expanded info about th...
defining a language of critique
In Jesse James Garrett’s closing plenary at the IA Summit he challenged us to consider a way to critique our work and to develop a language of critique. O...
ia summit 2009 talk on designing social interfaces
Designing Social Interfaces View more presentations from Erin Malone. Christian Crumlish and I brought out some of the material we have been working on for you ...
Designing Social Interfaces Core Conversation & Handout
We had a core conversation at SXSW on Sunday which was quite interesting to me and I hope interesting to people attending. The audience brought up some great qu...
Words to design by
At the Interactions 09 conference in Vancouver, Luke Wroblewski gave an interesting talk about the processes he and his team used to redesign the Yahoo! homepag...
The usability of everyday stuff
Yesterday I went down to a client’s with one of my team members to start a new project. He rented a car and ended up with a Mazda 7. While driving, we tri...
Take My Workshop
You know you want to. You really do want to learn all you can about design patterns. Perhaps even write a batch and contribute to the open patterns movement. Or...