Welcome Area
Many of the patterns in Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language offer advice and food for thought when designing the social experience. Pattern #149 in...
Category: Interaction design
Evolving Design Patterns
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...
Making Experience Themes
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...
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 ...
Designing Social Interfaces Core Conversation & Handout
We had a core conversation at SXSW on Sunday which was quite interesting to me and I hope interesting to people attending. The audience brought up some great qu...
10 most common misconceptions of user experience design
(meant to blog this when it came out and obviously I forgot) whitney hess writes a timely and well thought out article about common misconceptions in user exper...
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...
The New MFA in Interaction Design at School of Visual Arts in NYC
The School of Visual Arts is taking applications for its very first MFA in Interaction Design. I am proud to say that my friend and former colleague at Boxes an...
Writing and Styling and Posting, oh my
As the writing of the book hits a good momentum, we are starting to share our work with our editors and the patterns with the public. It’s an interesting ...
patterns and joining the party
I am currently working on the suite of patterns around joining social sites. the patterns start with registration and then include, sign in, sign in continuity,...
in which all is revealed about her new adventure
So folks are asking about what the next adventure is and where I am going. I can finally share… On August 1st, the partners of BranchLogic – Bruce C...
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 ...
Y! OS Finally Announced
Last year, my team was working in the Platform division and working on creating the social media platform for Yahoo! This included components related to identit...
Graceful Interfaces
Over the last couple of days, I have done some online shopping and been pleasantly surprised by a couple of small interface behaviors that made my life easier a...