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Category: Tools

General/Tools

Lamenting The Digital Legacy

Posted on 01/18/2016 by erin

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...

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/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...

Interaction design/Tools

Making Experience Themes

Posted on 06/29/2009 by erin

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...

Designing Social Interfaces/Social/Tools

Thinking about games

Posted on 06/23/2009 by erin

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...

Information Architecture/Interaction design/Tools

Expanding the toolset to include Fireworks

Posted on 01/05/2009 by erin

As I have made the transition to consulting and back to hands on work, I find that the tools I have been using are insufficient for my needs. I can wireframe an...

Professional Portfolio

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erin_8pawpress

Spring flowers and sweet grass everywhere in McLar Spring flowers and sweet grass everywhere in McLaren park. It’s the time of year sunny turns into a cow grazing on the grass #dogwalk #sunny #mclarenpark
Becoming more real with rules, more detailed cards Becoming more real with rules, more detailed cards and boards #ccaixd
Play testing in class - still low fidelity and wor Play testing in class - still low fidelity and working out mechanics #ixdcca
Making games in IXD class - this was the start #cc Making games in IXD class - this was the start #ccaixd
Walking around Holly Park - a mural that I’ve se Walking around Holly Park - a mural that I’ve seen dozens of times but this time I suddenly see my friend Totoro in the bottom corner. Added a touch of delight to a misty overcast walk. #dogwalk #hollyparkcircle
While I was at the conference - Sunny was having h While I was at the conference - Sunny was having her own spa vacation in San Francisco #waghotels #ixd23
Ixd23 #zurich Ixd23 #zurich
The women of interaction design panel #ixd23 #zuri The women of interaction design panel #ixd23 #zurich
This old town is so cute - love walking around and This old town is so cute - love walking around and seeing the life - wish sf downtown was as lively. #zurich
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MASTODON POSTS

Still time to sign up and explore tactics for designing safer online digital experiences. #iac23

21 March 2023 @ 4:24 am

I recently posted the profile from Deep Cuts#5 to the Women of IXD website - Maureen Stone - Color Research for Digital Practices - https://womenofixd.com/maureen-stone#WomenOfIXD #IXDHistory

15 March 2023 @ 11:25 pm

The latest Women of IXD Deep Cuts newsletter is out: Lucy Suchman: Bringing Ethnography into the Enterprise - https://mailchi.mp/3ff4e81465b4/women-of-ixd-deep-cuts-bringing-ethnography-into-enterprise#WomanofIXD #IXDHistory

13 March 2023 @ 8:31 pm

Even though we only lost an hour, I feel like I lost the whole day. I seem to be getting nothing done and it’s already almost 5pm.

12 March 2023 @ 11:18 pm

International Women's Day - a reminder that we make up over slightly half of all UX designers, yet leadership roles are still predominantly male, women make less money & are often left out of the histories.
Help me change that & support the Women of IXD project to expand the website to develop a resource to learn about the amazing contributions of women in UX. I'm raising money to hire a developer to build out the redesign.
https://gofund.me/0ab1b6f3
#WomenOfIxd
#IXDHistory #UXDesign

8 March 2023 @ 5:50 pm

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