Category: User Experience

  • Slides from our mini-workshop at IDEA 2009

    Designing Social Interfaces: 5 steps, 5 principles, 5 anti-patternsView more presentations from erin malone.

  • Presenting social patterns to patternistas at PLoP

    Social Design For Patternistas View more documents from Christian Crumlish. Last week I was in Chicago for PLoP (Pattern Languages of Programs) 2009, co-located with the Agile conference. PLoP is a unique conference, in some ways more like a funky academic confab than a typical tech industry conference. Most of the time is spent in…

  • Today's the last day to vote for my so-called SxSW panel

    Erin and I want to get a bunch of people together at South by Southwest in Austin next March to play SocialMania, the card game we’ve just started beta testing. If that sounds fun, go (sign up and) vote one snaps up for SocialMania: Designing Social Interfaces – The Game. Also, Dave Gray, myself, and…

  • Yahoo! Design Pattern Library relaunches with 10 new social patterns

    Over one year in the making… The work of many hands… A much overdue look-and-feel refresh, with some much-needed (if subtle) usability improvements… I am bursting with pride that I’m able to announce today the relaunch of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library with “ten new patterns, a reorganized category-structure, cleaner URLs for easier bookmarking, and…

  • 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:…

  • Google, you got me all wrong!

    google thinks I’m part of the denial of service attack

  • Space blues redux

    You Don’t Love Me (Live 1971) by The Allman Brothers Band Big Day At The Bay by The Mermen Mannish Boy by Jimi Hendrix

  • Bulletin article Boingboinged

    Cory Doctorow picked up on a brief mention from Bruce Sterling in his wired blog pointing to my recent bulletin article. Cory adds Stupid pitfalls of social media: This American Society for Information Science and Technology paper by Yahoo’s Christian Crumlish has a tidy little cosmology of dumb things that social media does. Commenters seem…

  • Hodgepodgery on Twitter today

    The “End of Politics” Delusion http://bit.ly/w1Gut (via @cascio) exciting day: looking at QC1 (“galley proofs”) of 10 chapters of DSI + pushing the new pattern library design to beta server (cross fingers) trying to seat 9 without a reservation… score! (@ Dishdash Restaurant in Sunnyvale) http://bit.ly/UG55q RT @benwerd: The Twitter denial of service and single…

  • Favorited from Twitter to remember to read

    chrismessina: RT @benwerd: The Twitter denial of service and single points of failure: http://bit.ly/13rqG4 #diso #identica kevinmarks: Here’s the press release about me joining BT as VP of Web Services, working with @jobsworth and @ribbit http://bit.ly/kcpgi bobulate: Recommended: Stop what you’re doing and read this. Words to watch: flames, awesome, unicorns, beer coasters, honor. http://bit.ly/5ATp1

  • Still with that spacey blues theme apparently

    Celebration by Courtney Wing Seasonal by Brian Deer White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane I’m So Glad by Eric Clapton Gold And Silver [Instrumental] by Quicksilver Messenger Service

  • This day worth of tweets would have read better in chronological order instead of the reverse

    amazing visualization of the power of github http://vimeo.com/2979844 (ht @sh1mmer) another man shooting up a roomful of women? fucking shit rt: for just showing tweets, Twitter has a widget you can customize (http://bit.ly/iq4qz). Otherwise: http://bit.ly/6d7aw (via @jwphillips) wha are the best twitter plugin for wordpress? I’m good at saying what I’m thinking and I’m good…

  • They're called favorites for a reason

    SarahKSilverman: Goddamnit! I am so sick of paying top dollar for mustache rides. jlangdale: RT @mashable Teens Don’t Tweet http://bit.ly/1GnYtK RT @jedijunkie: Also, Boy’s don’t cry, the numbers don’t lie, and Homie don’t play that. bobulate: What makes a good editor? RT Regarding saying no, the personal agenda, and edifying editing: http://bit.ly/7djaf (via @thatwhichmatter) brianoberkirch:…

  • Visualizing the impact of Git

    Ruby on Rails

  • Open questions from Twitter

    is the accelerometer on my iPhone a dud or is the software buggy and sluggish for everyone? remember those french / English, English / french dictionaries? my next book pitch after the novel: designer / engineer, engineer / desi … it’s really hard to find and install apps on facebook – i want to install…

  • The Information Architecture of Social Experience Design: Five Principles, Five Anti-Patterns and 96 Patterns (in Three Buckets)

    I have an article in the August/September 2009 issue of The Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, called "The Information Architecture of Social Experience Design: Five Principles, Five Anti-Patterns and 96 Patterns (in Three Buckets)" (quite a mouthful, eh?). I’d like to thank Stacy Surla, one of my colleagues on the…