Category: User Experience

  • The wheel of convos

    Pretty cool visualization of various types of social media platforms (based on a cyclical model of conversation). (via Nick Terry)

  • See me speak at IDEA 2009

    The IDEA Conference looks at the intersection of physical and information space and wonders how you design experiences for that. At IDEA we’ll combine a straightforward presentation of the ideas in Designing Social Interfaces with an interactive quasi-workshop activity involving play-testing a prototype card game we’re designing.

  • Porter's three problems of social software

    Excellent breakdown on how to obtain and sustain “traction” in social software design (the three problems are sign-up, first-time use, and ongoing engagement): Designing For Social Traction View more documents from Joshua Porter.

  • Miscellaneous tweetage

    one unbook technique: put your book on github… http://icio.us/nhqsjx lovingly hunting for bugs in the pattern library’s new design on the staging server omg! this Pattern Language of Group Process http://grouppatternlanguage.org/ project/site/thing is amazing… need to dig into it further. wow, i’m acting like a loose cannon online these days… take a step back from…

  • Open source unbooks and a pattern language for groups

    Two hot bookmarks today, each of which probably warrants a full blog post: Book’em, Github | Linux Magazine tech authors posting source code and sometimes entire books on GitHub Pattern Language of Group Process A pattern language for group dynamics whose goals include (1) To support Purpose-driven design. Form should follow function, (2) To deepen…

  • Good day for Twitter favorites

    MaryHodder: RT @zephoria: “Are You F*cking Kidding Me?” is a hysterical song about Facebook/Twitter by Kate Miller-Heidke http://bit.ly/nU5Ve steveportigal: Delish: Sherry Turkle is Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and a sociologi.. http://bit.ly/12aqlc laughingsquid: hilarious @parislemon didn’t like @songadaymann’s @bing jingle http://bit.ly/jrdeO, so @songadaymann made one about him http://bit.ly/18DGq5 davegray:…