publications

Christian has written (and contributed to) a surprising number of books. Many are out of print and some were frankly forgettable. Here are the keepers.

Designing Social Interfaces

Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience

This book presents a family of social web design principles and interaction patterns that we have observed and codified, thus capturing user-experience best practices and emerging social web customs for web 2.0 practitioners. [+]

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‘Playful Design’ at UX Lisbon

May 17, 2011

Here are my slides from UX Lx. In the coming weeks, the video broadcast will be made available (for a small fee) at the UX Lisbon site, and sometime next year they will be shared freely in the ramp up to UX LX 2012.

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Johnny Holland picks up on my call for tuneable experiences

May 16, 2011

Renowned interaction design zine Johnny Holland reported on my keynote at UX Lisbon, writing, in UX LX: Day Three

Moving on to playing in the musical design — he believes we can turn our users into maestros, as an expert Illustrator user is much like a musician! — Crumlish provided a range of analogies (frameworks set up the rules, you need a bit of chaos for creativity, as in jazz). However, for me, his utterly inspired point was that of creating tunable experiences: “You don’t need to create a perfect experience, but instead one that’s tunable.”

Didoo’s Area Web Portfolio

May 6, 2011

A brief write-up in Italian of my keynote address from the Italian Summit, “We Are All Leonardo Now,” appears in Didoo’s Area Web Portfolio.

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The IA Institute reports that they added the slides and video from my keynote at the Italian IA Summit to the institute’s library, in the latest issue of the monthly IA Institute Newsletter.

Video of my keynote from the Italian IA Summit 2011 in Milan. [+]

Short Bio

Christian Crumlish leads product and ux teams to deliver amazing cross-channel experiences. He is director of product at CloudOn, co-chairs the monthly BayCHI program, and has been director of product for AIM, curator of the Yahoo design pattern library, and director of the Information Architecture Institute. He is the author of The Power of Many (Wiley) and co-author of Designing Social Interfaces (O’Reilly).

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