Identity, Privacy and Differences for Women Online
Lately I have been thinking a lot about identity online and how things like age and gender affect how you approach projecting an online identity. Working with a...
Author: erin
chair IXD bfa program at California College of the Arts :: printmaker and author
Falling off the radar here but not there
I have been super busy lately with client work, presentations and conferences and prepping for an upcoming portfolio review related to my photography work. I ha...
New Article up at Boxes and Arrows
An article companion to part of the talk I have been giving is finally up at Boxes and Arrows. The topic – 5 steps to building social experiences – ...
neighborhoods and subcultures in social design
In writing our book, Designing Social Interfaces, we challenged ourselves to creating a social pattern language, much like Christopher Alexander created a patte...
The Questions We Ask
A couple of weeks ago I gave the 5 Principles, 5 Practices, 5 Anti-Patterns talk to the IxDA Los Angeles group. It was a great group of people and they asked me...
Unintended Side Effects
I have been presenting the material from our book over the last several months and have been asked questions about some of the anti-patterns and how we avoid or...
Web 2.0 NY – Designing Social Interfaces Workshop
I attended Web 2.0 NY Expo this past week as a workshop presenter. I took the talk that Christian and I did at IDEA 09 and that I did at IxDA SF and fleshed it ...
Speaking about social interfaces at IxDA SF
Designing Social Interfaces: 5 principles, 5 practices, 5 antipatterns View more presentations from erin malone. Last night I spoke at the IxDA San Francisco Oc...
Diagramming the Social Ecosystem
[singlepic id=29 w=320 h=240 float=left]One of the things we have been doing since way before we started the book, was to visualize the social ecosystem and the...
Unveiling Social Mania: The Game at Idea 09
What a rush! As part of our (mine and Christian Crumlish) presentation at Idea 09, we were presenting from our book: Designing Social Interfaces – 5 Steps...
Slides from our talk
Our talk at Idea09 touched on a few key steps for building social experiences, a few of the most salient principles and a handful of the anti-patterns covered i...
The Book is on the press
We got the final mechanical of the book cover in color a couple of days ago and then shortly after word that the entire book was sent to press. A couple of we...
Join me at IDEA2009 on Sept 15-16
A couple of weeks from now I will be attending the IDEA conference, put on by the IA Institute, for the first time. Over the years I have heard about the previo...
New design, new patterns
The Yahoo! Pattern library has launched a new design – to match the revamped design of the Yahoo! Developer Network. This was a project that originally st...
Time to Vote for SXSW Presos
It’s that time of year to slog through the long list of thousands of ideas for SXSW presentation. Fortunately, you can cut to the chase and click this lin...