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,...
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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...
The Future is Already Here: Three Trends in IA
Below is my opening keynote slides and the talk I wrote out which I gave at the German IA Conference in Cologne, Germany May 14, 2010. I speak about experience ...
Where did the idea of patterns come from?
[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...
Join me at IDEA2009 on Sept 15-16
A couple of weeks from now I will be attending the IDEA conference, put on by the IA Institute, for the first time. Over the years I have heard about the previo...
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 ...
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...
Expanding the toolset to include Fireworks
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...
Yahoo! Design Stencils
Earlier this year, as part of our workshop at the IA Summit, we made a robust set of design stencils that map to the Yahoo! Pattern Library and the Yahoo! User ...
IA Summit wrapup
I wrote a wrapup about the Yahoo!s who presented at the IA Summit over on the Yahoo! Developer Network blog. Pretty much everything is said there and there are ...
Big week ahead
This week we head out to the IA Summit and present our workshop on writing, using and building a pattern library and using that with code to prototype and build...
Conducting a workshop at the 2008 IA Summit – register now!
I am conducting a preconference workshop, with my esteemed colleagues Christian Crumlish and Lucas Pettinati, on building a pattern library and using patterns a...
Seeking the future through the past
My friend, Alex Wright, an IA at the NY Times, recently published an article, Friending, Ancient or Otherwise on the NY Times. The article looks at the recent t...
YDN Theater and Patterns
Christian Crumlish, our Pattern Library curator, over here at Yahoo!, was recently filmed giving a brownbag on the pattern library to Yahoo!’s UED organiz...