Archive for March, 2009

Designing Social Interfaces Web 2.0 Expo workshop slides

March 31, 2009

Slides from Designing Social Interfaces at IA Summit 2009

March 23, 2009

Erin Malone and I introduced some of the fruit of our effort to carve out a pattern language for social user experience design. At the Information Architecture Summit in Memphis this past week we taught our pattern library workshop and then delivered this tandem presentation:

south by, in a nutshell

March 15, 2009

tweets about our core conversation

south by, in a nutshell

this is a screenshot of a sampling of the tweets about the core conversation i did with erin malone re social design patterns.

there was one that said we weren’t prepared and were just promoting our book, too.

i do wish we had explicated an example pattern. the summit talk with slides will be more useful, i think. but then this was a core conversation. we tried to seed it and then go with what the room wanted to talk about. that’s unstructured for a panel.

also, we could have walked through the handout all together. live and learn.

Building my sxsw schedule

March 7, 2009

Invincibility overrated

March 5, 2009

Soon I Will Be Invincible Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman

My review


rating: 4 of 5 stars
Something Jonathan Lethem might have cooked up after watching all three seasons of the Venture Brothers while perusing the Watchmen graphic novel.

I enjoyed it!

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My YDN lightning talk on design patterns

March 2, 2009

Thanks to Julie Choi who is producing this series and Ricky Montalvo who directed and filmed this five-minute talk. I really enjoyed it and I think they did a great job with it (and the whole series, actually):