Speaking the language of user experience
Interaction Design, Mobile, News, Pattern Library
By: erin October 24, 2011
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 looking at both apps designed by the client and others in the landscape for comparison and for developing best practices across the iPhone, iPad, an Android handset [...]
Read more »By: erin September 4, 2011
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 the policies that Google has set forth. They are discriminatory and do not promote true social engagements. “Real Names” Policies Are an Abuse of Power Google+ and [...]
By: erin August 29, 2011
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 issues—suspension of accounts deemed not “real”, suspending accounts because of pseudonyms. In our book, Christian and I talk about identity, about owning your words and owning your reputation. We proposed [...]
By: erin April 25, 2011
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 grid has been harder to apply in reasonable ways online but I still love the order of working with an underlying structure and the challenge of [...]
By: Erin Malone April 23, 2011
We often are asked to explain what User Experience Design is to lay persons, clients and others. Sometimes it comes easily and people understand. Sometimes it becomes more difficult because they have a pre-conceived notion or have worked with other related disciplines. Whitney Hess, in her latest blog post, clearly articulates the practices of a [...]