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: Interaction design
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Reviewing Patterns for Use
[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...
How to write an interaction design pattern
[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...
How to identify interaction design patterns
[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...
Why have a design pattern library?
[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 ...
New Article up at Boxes and Arrows
An article companion to part of the talk I have been giving is finally up at Boxes and Arrows. The topic – 5 steps to building social experiences – ...
neighborhoods and subcultures in social design
In writing our book, Designing Social Interfaces, we challenged ourselves to creating a social pattern language, much like Christopher Alexander created a patte...
The Questions We Ask
A couple of weeks ago I gave the 5 Principles, 5 Practices, 5 Anti-Patterns talk to the IxDA Los Angeles group. It was a great group of people and they asked me...
Unintended Side Effects
I have been presenting the material from our book over the last several months and have been asked questions about some of the anti-patterns and how we avoid or...
Slides from our talk
Our talk at Idea09 touched on a few key steps for building social experiences, a few of the most salient principles and a handful of the anti-patterns covered i...