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Category: Pattern Library

Interaction design/Pattern Library/Systems/User Experience

A History of Patterns in User Experience Design

Posted on 03/28/2017 by erin

As part of my classes that I teach at CCA, interaction design patterns come up. Sometimes in their simple form of elements as captured in a style guide and some...

Interaction design/Mobile/Pattern Library

Considering the cross device experience

Posted on 10/24/2011 by erin

I have been super busy lately working on the beginnings of a Mobile Pattern Library for a client. This work involves a lot of auditing applications. I am lookin...

Conferences/Pattern Library

Patterns Talk for An Event Apart

Posted on 08/20/2010 by erin

Last month I was one of the speakers at An Event Apart, Minneapolis. It was a fantastic experience and I highly recommend it. If it’s at all in your budge...

Interaction design/Pattern Library

Working With a Pattern Library Day to Day

Posted on 07/29/2010 by erin

[Part 7 of a series on Patterns. Working with a Pattern Library.] Patterns, Components, and Code, Oh My! Ok, so now you have a pattern library. Now what? Ultima...

Pattern Library

Organizing your pattern libary

Posted on 06/15/2010 by erin

[Part 6 of a series on Patterns. Organizing the pattern library for a design team.] Organizing a pattern library is like organizing any other large body of cont...

Interaction design/Pattern Library

Reviewing Patterns for Use

Posted on 05/26/2010 by erin

[Part 5 of a series on Patterns. Developing a quality system.] Once you have a collection of patterns they should be reviewed by the team or designated represen...

Pattern Library

The news is out – Yahoo! Pattern Library finding a new home

Posted on 05/12/2010 by erin

The Yahoo! Pattern Library, that I founded, thanks to the insight of Irene Au (now at Google) will be moving homes from the Yahoo! Developer Network to uipatter...

Interaction design/Pattern Library/Tools

How to write an interaction design pattern

Posted on 04/20/2010 by erin

[Part 4 of a series on Patterns. How to write patterns once you have identified them.] Writing interaction design patterns can seem easy on the surface. After a...

Interaction design/Pattern Library

How to identify interaction design patterns

Posted on 04/05/2010 by erin

[Part 3 of a series on Patterns. Understanding the concept of the reusable solution.] Identifying patterns in architecture The first thing you have to do before...

Information Architecture/Pattern Library

Where did the idea of patterns come from?

Posted on 03/25/2010 by erin

[Part 2 of a series on Patterns. Parts of this post excerpted in part from my work in chapter 1 of Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Practices and Patter...

Interaction design/Pattern Library

Why have a design pattern library?

Posted on 03/22/2010 by erin

[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 ...

Career/Conferences/Designing Social Interfaces/Pattern Library

Falling off the radar here but not there

Posted on 03/06/2010 by erin

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...

Pattern Library/Yahoo!

New design, new patterns

Posted on 08/20/2009 by erin

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...

Interaction design/Pattern Library/Tools

Evolving Design Patterns

Posted on 08/04/2009 by erin

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...

Conferences/Pattern Library/Social

Designing Social Interfaces – the Web 2.0 Expo version

Posted on 03/31/2009 by erin

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...

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The latest deep cuts about the American Center for Design's leaders in the late 1990's, Kathryn McCoy & Meredith Davis, has now on the Women of IXD website. (Profiles mostly written by Kumari Pacheco) https://womenofixd.com/stories/american-center-for-designThe full ACD story is included in the book. #WomenOfIxd #IxdHistory

25 September 2023 @ 7:01 pm

There’s nothing I hate worse than an app over riding my settings. Looking at you kindle - why must I shift to “page in book” every damn book. And whoever said location in book was a meaningful piece of metadata - said no on ever.

22 September 2023 @ 12:54 am

Women of IXD Deep Cuts #16 is out. Educators Meredith Davis & Kathryn McCoy, both presidents of the now defunct American Center for Design in the 1990s. They shepherded the Living Surfaces conferences into being, which were some of the first for designers working in Multimedia, then the Internet and Web. They gave us opportunities to share our work and have conversations about the evolution of the designer's role into these new spaces.
#WomenOfIxd #IxdHistory https://lnkd.in/gB8FiHib

15 September 2023 @ 7:12 pm

@textfiles What's the process to tour the Internet Archive? I'd love to bring my History of Interaction Design class (12 students) to see the awesomeness.....

7 September 2023 @ 5:43 pm

I've published a bibliography for the book, now that the manuscript has been delivered (this morning). @schock & @histoftech thanks to both of you (among others) for your works I cited in my text. This list doesn't cover specific references, oral histories or interviews with specific women. https://womenofixd.com/bibliography

5 September 2023 @ 8:46 pm

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