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Tag: patterns

Interaction design/Pattern Library

Working With a Pattern Library Day to Day

Posted on 07/29/2010 by erin

[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...

Pattern Library

Organizing your pattern libary

Posted on 06/15/2010 by erin

[Part 6 of a series on Patterns. Organizing the pattern library for a design team.] Organizing a pattern library is like organizing any other large body of cont...

Interaction design/Pattern Library

Reviewing Patterns for Use

Posted on 05/26/2010 by erin

[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...

Interaction design/Pattern Library

Why have a design pattern library?

Posted on 03/22/2010 by erin

[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 ...

Designing Social Interfaces/Interaction design

neighborhoods and subcultures in social design

Posted on 12/16/2009 by erin

In writing our book, Designing Social Interfaces, we challenged ourselves to creating a social pattern language, much like Christopher Alexander created a patte...

Information design/Interaction design/Social

Unintended Side Effects

Posted on 11/21/2009 by erin

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...

Designing Social Interfaces/Information design

Diagramming the Social Ecosystem

Posted on 10/08/2009 by erin

One of the things we have been doing since way before we started the book, was to visualize the social ecosystem and the inter-relationships between categories,...

Conferences/Designing Social Interfaces/Interaction design

Slides from our talk

Posted on 09/20/2009 by erin

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...

Designing Social Interfaces/Interaction design

Welcome Area

Posted on 08/06/2009 by erin

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...

Designing Social Interfaces

The Information Architecture of Social Experience Design

Posted on 08/05/2009 by erin

My coauthor for the book, Christian Crumlish, has recently published an article in the ASIST Bulletin in which he shares some of the principles we talk about in...

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...

Pattern Library/Social

Opening up our book writing process

Posted on 11/12/2008 by erin

As Christian and I start to get deeper into our book, we have discussed between ourselves and our editor, the idea of opening the process up to those interested...

Community/Pattern Library/Social

Deep in social thoughts

Posted on 09/17/2008 by erin

apologies for how quiet I have been for the last several weeks. I have been deep in the thick of writing and boy is it fun. The first chapter of our book, Desig...

Pattern Library

Expanding the conversation

Posted on 07/16/2008 by erin

Today, forums launched as part of the Yahoo! Developer Network. It’s a soft, preview launch so there are very few boards up while all the kinks are being ...

Pattern Library/Yahoo!

Mind Your Reputation

Posted on 06/10/2008 by erin

I am pleased to announce that we recently released a set of 9 Reputation Patterns over on the Yahoo! Pattern Library. Written primarily by Bryce Glass, these pa...

Professional Portfolio

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The subject of my newsletter #2 was Mabel Addis, a school teacher who was enlisted to work with IBM to develop narrative educational computer games in the mid 1960's.
I just published her story on the website: https://womenofixd.com/mabel-addis#womenofixd #ixddesignhistory
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26 January 2023 @ 7:37 pm

Newsletter authors: Do you post your newsletter to your website? As is or reformatted? How soon from sending out as an email do you publish on your site (if you do)? I'm trying to find the right cadence of newsletter to site posting and value to subscribers. Any advice appreciated.

17 January 2023 @ 5:28 am

The second edition newsletter went out today. Women of IXD: Deep Cuts #2 - Mabel Addis & the first interactive computer game - https://mailchi.mp/0c47ba3faaa8/women-of-ixd-deep-cuts-2-mabel-addis-the-first-interactive-computer-game #womenofixd #ixddesignhistory #computergamedesignhistory

16 January 2023 @ 11:48 pm

I've just published the profile on Ángela Ruiz Robles to my website. This was my first Deep Cuts newsletter. Coming bi-monthly to your email and then later to the website. https://womenofixd.com/angela-ruiz-robles

16 January 2023 @ 6:50 pm

I started sending out my Women of IXD: Deep Cuts newsletter this week with a piece about Ángela Ruiz Robles. Bi-monthly newsletter containing the stories and profiles of the women in the field I had to cut from the book due to word-count constraints and narrative flow.
You can subscribe at the bottom of the homepage at Women of IXD - https://womenofixd.com/ - and get the stories in your inbox.
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