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...
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...
– 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...
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...
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...
The past two falls have found me teaching the basic Interaction Design Foundations course at CCA. It’s great fun and we get into the basics of task flows,...
Last semester I taught a class. This semester, I have embarked again on the journey that is ‘writing a book’. I have picked back up, the project I s...
Combine an Interaction Design program, with a crash course in visual design, mix it up with how visual design principles, practices and approaches intersect and...
As part of the class I am teaching – Visual Interaction Design – we are doing a module on typography and type design. Tangential to that is type his...
Christian and I are currently working on a revision of the Social patterns book. We talked to Mary Treseler last year at the IA Summit – where we signed f...
Most of these books are on my bookshelf and I have read through almost all of them. I use some of them everyday and others are referenced to when tackling ...
[Updated January 2019] I keep an ongoing list of books and articles (google doc) related to the Social interface space. As we learn more about human behavior i...
this new blog is on wordpress and I am still figuring out how it all works – specifically accepting comments. so, apologies if you have tried to comment a...
Erin Malone has over 25 years of experience leading experience design teams, deconstructing complex systems and designing web and software applications, and soc...