Category: Paleoblogs

  • Passing Thoughts from 2010-01-14

    designing # designing with a glass of red wine # Boot and Shoe Service on #Yelp: Wanted to try the new restaurant and see Pandora at the Grand Lake. Couldn't get in … http://bit.ly/8lNgb2 # making far-from-pixel-perfect mockups # This is how I do this http://flic.kr/p/7vzhVF # Powered by Twitter Tools

  • Passing Thoughts from 2010-01-13

    http://2010.iasummit.org/calendar so far i've just perused the workshops and they look fantastic # aw man, too many great sessions to choose from: http://2010.iasummit.org/calendar # Passing Thoughts from 2010-01-12 http://tinyurl.com/yz5kk33 # Powered by Twitter Tools

  • Passing Thoughts from 2010-01-12

    a new lazarus, i have cast off my boot and crutches # RT @inkblurt @louisrosenfeld @ferrarajc New Ning community exploring the intersection of #gamedesign and #ux: http://is.gd/64woL # RT @staciehibino: Awesome job by @nancyf on "Keys to Success as a Volunteer Organization" #baychi http://slidesha.re/871sOR # reid is to lott as insensitively blunt political handicapping is…

  • The book has arrived!

    the book has arrived! Originally uploaded by erin_designr We started our book proposal around June of ’08…

  • Certification of live birth

    Turns out I was born in Kenya too!

  • BT intent on his monitor

    BT intent, originally uploaded by xian. A snapshot of the evening entertainment last night at Yahoo! for the kickoff of the iPhoneDevCamp 3.

  • hells yeah

    hells yeah Originally uploaded by xian if it’s really him, why not?

  • Designing Social Interfaces, Rough Cut edition now available from O'Reilly Media

    Designing Social Interfaces – Rough Cut | O’Reilly Media Originally uploaded by xian The unedited, 500 page first draft of our book is available now in PDF format for review by anyone who can’t bear to wait till September for the first (“real”) edition to come out. Yay!

  • Designing Social Interfaces Web 2.0 Expo workshop slides

    Social Patterns Talk – Web 2.0 version View more presentations from Erin Malone.

  • Slides from Designing Social Interfaces at IA Summit 2009

    Erin Malone and I introduced some of the fruit of our effort to carve out a pattern language for social user experience design. At the Information Architecture Summit in Memphis this past week we taught our pattern library workshop and then delivered this tandem presentation: Designing Social Interfaces View more presentations from Erin Malone.

  • south by, in a nutshell

    south by, in a nutshell this is a screenshot of a sampling of the tweets about the core conversation i did with erin malone re social design patterns. there was one that said we weren’t prepared and were just promoting our book, too. i do wish we had explicated an example pattern. the summit talk…

  • gee and i've only met barlow once

    gee and i’ve only met barlow once Originally uploaded by xian was JP Barlow idly doing the comparisons today, or is this more like secret-admirer spam?

  • About this new book I'm (co-)writing

    As you may know, I am writing a book with Erin Malone called Designing Social Interfaces for O’Reilly Media. Erin is the the founder of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library and hired me to be its third curator. Today she is a partner at Tangible UX, a consulting firm, and I maintain the library as…

  • Open Hackday 08 begins

    hackday stage Originally uploaded by xian. I’m going to name the robots Foo and Bar. We still haven’t announced the musical act that will be performing on this stage tonight. So far I’ve heard Cody Simms and Neal Sample (Cody and Neal, hmmm….) give a great overview of YOS (with great visuals by Micah Laaker),…

  • Florida and Michigan–Rebels on the Run

    Leaving aside everything else about this campaign, I’d like to zero-in on whether the delegates from these two states should or should not be seated. So, I have composed this imaginary statement in the name of the Democratic National Committee: STATEMENT –Barak Obama promised not to campaign in Florida, and he kept his word. He…

  • Ignite was fun

    My Ignite talk, Grasping Social Patterns Originally uploaded by duncandavidson. Here are my slides. | View | Upload your own Audio when it’s available (video too). UPDATE: and here’s some YouTube video shot from the audience (the very beginning of my talk is cut off):

  • Three talks for the price of, well, none

    At the IA Summit a week ago in Miami, I co-taught two full-day workshops (on patterns with Erin Malone and Lucas Pettinati, and social design with Christina Wodtke and Joshua Porter), moderated a panel (on presence and other aspects of social web architecture with Gene Smith, Wodtke, Andrew Hinton, and Andrew Crow), and gave a…

  • Social design patterns slides from BayCHI last week

    Here are my slides from my talk at Xerox Parc (the BayCHI monthly program meeting) on April 8th: | View | Upload your own When I get the audio, I plan to put together a slidecast to synch the slides to the talk, which should be more valuable. Oh, and consider viewing the slides in…

  • Will There Be US Bases in Iraq?

    Absolutely not. “The U.S. ambassador…told Congress last week that the deal would not establish permanent bases in Iraq nor specify the number of forces to be stationed” there. —Washington Post, 4-15-08 This unspecified number of troops will not be housed in bases, but since they will be stationed there for an also unspecified period, the…

  • Talk back to presenters with Ted Nadeau's patented* Reaction Deck 1.0

    At South by Southwest, Ted Nadeau and I led a “core conversation” on the topic of reputation, identity, and presence. Ted is great at questioning basic assumptions and had this idea of handing out placards an audience of participants could use to signal their reactions to what was being said to them. We imagine double-sided…

  • Capitalism and the Homeowner: Contempt Hidden in Plain Sight

    Marxists have long suggested that home ownership is encouraged under capitalism because when masses of people own small-scale properties, they identify with and defend large-scale capitalist ownership of true wealth in the means of production. Homeowners in America, then, are comparable to the land-owning peasantry in the Old Countries, unwitting bastions of reactionary economics. From…