Tag: Social
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 – ...
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...
Web 2.0 NY – Designing Social Interfaces Workshop
I attended Web 2.0 NY Expo this past week as a workshop presenter. I took the talk that Christian and I did at IDEA 09 and that I did at IxDA SF and fleshed it ...
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...
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...
The Information Architecture of Social Experience Design
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...
Worth Watching
BJ Fogg and a bunch of other really smart people from Stanford are looking at the psychology of Facebook and how persuasion in the social environment affects be...
Opening up our book writing process
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...
Moderating People
There is a really good article in the San Francisco Chronicle today about the Community team at flickr – run by Heather Champ. The article discusses the d...
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,...