Teaching at the Design Writing Summit
I had the pleasure of teaching recently as part of the Design Writing Summit crafted together by Christina Wodtke and sponsored by Boxes and Arrows. It was as ...
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.
RE: Design
I am curating a conference! Feeling a bit deer in headlights but I am super stoked and am having a blast figuring it out. RE:DESIGN, which will be held here in ...
Beyond Design
Back in the days of the Bauhaus, designers were multi-faceted. The designers that many of us studied in school and admired for their modernist thinking about ty...
Considering the cross device experience
I have been super busy lately working on the beginnings of a Mobile Pattern Library for a client. This work involves a lot of auditing applications. I am lookin...
More good posts about the Identity issues with Google +
Here are a few more good articles/posts about this ongoing conversation about Identity and Google +. This is a hot potato and people need to speak out against t...
Who you are versus who you present yourself to be online
Recently Google launched Google Plus and in the process, they have required that people use their real names as their identity. This is causing tremendous issue...
The Ultimate in Grids
I have long been a proponent of grid systems in design. After all, I started out as a print designer working on annual reports and other multipage projects. The...
Where I will be in the near future
A few more events are coming up that I will be involved in: Web 2.0 Expo Keynote talk: Start Using UX as a Weapon March 29th, 4:45 pm, Main Stage I will be a ju...
Conference season is upon us
I will be attending Interactions 11 in Boulder next week. I am not presenting, just attending, but Tangible UX is looking for strong independent UX people to wo...
History of Social Media Infographic
Very nicely done infographic showing the history of various social media services.
Social Design workshop at UX Week San Francisco
Last week, Christian and I had the pleasure of doing our Designing Social Interfaces day long workshop as part of Adaptive Path’s UXWeek. We had a great t...
Patterns Talk for An Event Apart
Last month I was one of the speakers at An Event Apart, Minneapolis. It was a fantastic experience and I highly recommend it. If it’s at all in your budge...
Working With a Pattern Library Day to Day
[Part 7 of a series on Patterns. Working with a Pattern Library.] Patterns, Components, and Code, Oh My! Ok, so now you have a pattern library. Now what? Ultima...
Organizing your pattern libary
[Part 6 of a series on Patterns. Organizing the pattern library for a design team.] Organizing a pattern library is like organizing any other large body of cont...
Reviewing Patterns for Use
[Part 5 of a series on Patterns. Developing a quality system.] Once you have a collection of patterns they should be reviewed by the team or designated represen...