Using Mapping to Scope a System
The Power of Mapping Maps and models help us see and visualize all sorts of concepts. To get our hands and heads around a topic or a complex system as well as i...
Author: erin
current: experience matters design :: senior level interaction design and systems strategy consulting
former partner, tangible user experience; Yahoo! founder of the public and internal Yahoo! pattern library. design director of ued teams responsible for designing solutions across key yahoo! platforms: social media, personalization, membership and vertical search.
IxD Foundations Reading List
The past two falls have found me teaching the basic Interaction Design Foundations course at CCA. It’s great fun and we get into the basics of task flows,...
Re-finding Your Individual Contributor Self
The Shift Back from Management Moving from management back into the role of an individual contributor—especially if you go out as a freelancer or consultant—can...
Chasing the ephemeral
Thoughts from a digital packrat As a person who has created a lot of different types of social experiences over the years and who has written about social ...
Thoughts about Identity, Privacy and Moderation in the Age of Fake News and Emboldened Bad Behavior
I am currently teaching systems design at California College of Arts and we have been talking about the social architecture for social interfaces. Key to the fo...
Writing about the UX of Sales
I have been working on this book material for awhile – I started writing the book about a year after we did our talk at the IA Summit and then it stalled ...
Systems Reading List
In the spring I will be teaching the Systems class at CCA for the third time. I will be integrating systems which covers systems, mapping, information architect...
Traveling Down Graphic Design Rabbit Trails
I am thick in the middle of research for my book and I am having a blast. The rabbit trails that I find myself traversing is reinvigorating my love of the trivi...
Lamenting The Digital Legacy
Last semester I taught a class. This semester, I have embarked again on the journey that is ‘writing a book’. I have picked back up, the project I s...
Teaching Visual Interaction Design
Combine an Interaction Design program, with a crash course in visual design, mix it up with how visual design principles, practices and approaches intersect and...
Type History
As part of the class I am teaching – Visual Interaction Design – we are doing a module on typography and type design. Tangential to that is type his...
Visual Interaction Design Reading List
UPDATED 2019 – over the last four years, I’ve been teaching Visual Interaction Design at CCA (California College of the Arts) – which is a cra...
Upcoming Webcast
I’ll be doing a webcast of my Foundations of Social Interface Design over at O’Reilly on August 20, 2015. Here’s what I’ll be talking ab...
Over on Medium
I wrote a piece pondering some questions coming out of the Ellen Pao / Kleiner Perkins trial. I sat on the jury for five weeks and although I was an alternate a...
Designing Social Interfaces v2.
Christian and I are currently working on a revision of the Social patterns book. We talked to Mary Treseler last year at the IA Summit – where we signed f...