A History of Patterns in User Experience Design
UPDATE February 8, 2024I updated the diagram recently after working on my book about the history of interaction design and the contributions of women to the fie...
Category: User Experience
Finding some old stuff
In 2016 a bunch of us gathered together with folks from IXDA SF to reminisce and record our collective history from the beginnings of the dot com boom and bust ...
Donate time, donate money for social justice
If you are looking for ways to put your User Experience Design skills to use this summer consider reaching out and volunteering for one of the various Civil Rig...
Using Modeling to Understand What’s Happening Within a System
In my piece, Using Mapping to Scope a System, I covered the process of using Mind Maps, Cluster Maps and Concept Maps/Models to help you scope the boundaries of...
Using Mapping to Scope a System
The Power of Mapping Maps and models help us see and visualize all sorts of concepts. To get our hands and heads around a topic or a complex system as well as i...
IxD Foundations Reading List
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,...
Teaching
I am currently a Professor at CCA teaching a variety of classes across the Interaction Design undergraduate program and am Chair of the program. Courses D...
Systems Thinking / Designing Reading List
In the spring I will be teaching a Systems class at CCA. I will be integrating systems which covers systems, mapping, information architecture with social inter...
Systems Reading List
In the spring I will be teaching the Systems class at CCA for the third time. I will be integrating systems which covers systems, mapping, information architect...
Visual Interaction Design Reading List
UPDATED 2019 – over the last four years, I’ve been teaching Visual Interaction Design at CCA (California College of the Arts) – which is a cra...
Over on Medium
I wrote a piece pondering some questions coming out of the Ellen Pao / Kleiner Perkins trial. I sat on the jury for five weeks and although I was an alternate a...
Teaching at the Design Writing Summit
I had the pleasure of teaching recently as part of the Design Writing Summit crafted together by Christina Wodtke and sponsored by Boxes and Arrows. It was as ...
Considering the cross device experience
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...
The Ultimate in Grids
I have long been a proponent of grid systems in design. After all, I started out as a print designer working on annual reports and other multipage projects. The...
Working With a Pattern Library Day to Day
[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...