Christian Crumlish | Web Directions East

Christian Crumlish

Christian Crumlish has been participating in, analyzing, designing, and drawing social interactive spaces online since 1994. These days he is the curator of Yahoo!’s pattern library, a design evangelist with the Yahoo! Developer Network, and a member of Yahoo!’s Design Council. He has spoken about social patterns at BarCamp Block, BayCHI, South by Southwest, the IA Summit, Ignite, and Web 2.0 Expo.

Speech: Designing social interfaces

Designing for social interaction is hard. People are unpredictable, consistency is a mixed blessing, and co-creation with your users requires a dizzying flirtation with loss of control. Christian will present the dos and don’ts of social web design using a sampling of interaction patterns, design principles and best practices to help you improve the design of your digital social environments.

Workshop: Designing social interfaces

You’ll explore the landscape of social user experience design patterns and anti-patterns, focusing on the contexts in which specific interface designs work well and the unintended consequences that make some UI ideas seem like a good idea until they turn around and bite you in your app. The workshop will include concept modeling and user interface sketching. [→Workshop info]

Website: Mediajunkie

Book Website: Designing Social Interfaces

Books

• The Power of Many: How the Living Web Is Transforming Politics, Business, and Everyday Life
• Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience

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