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Christian Crumlish

http://twitter.com/mediajunkie

Oakland, California

writer, designer, information architect, social being

Areas of Expertise:

  • design
  • information architecture
  • social design
  • strategy
  • interaction design
  • user experience
  • design patterns
  • pattern languages
  • patterns
  • social patterns
  • social design patterns
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • training
  • writing

Biography

Christian Crumlish is the curator of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library and has been designing and writing about online user experiences since 1994. He is a director of the Information Architecture Institute, a member of the Open Web Foundation, and co-chair of the monthly BayCHI program.

He is the author of The Power of Many and co-author of Designing Social Interfaces with Erin Malone. He studied philosophy at Princeton and painting at the San Francisco School of Art, and lives in Oakland, California, with his wife, Briggs, and his cat, Fraidy.

Books

Designing Social Interfaces Designing Social Interfaces
by Christian Crumlish , Erin Malone
September 2009
Print: $49.99
Ebook: $39.99

Blog

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Christian's blog posts are hosted at:
http://mediajunkie.com/blog/

Interview on the Well about Designing Social Interfaces

October 30 2009

This week we’ve begun a two-week-long interview in the Well’s public Inkwell conference. The interview is being led by Jon Lebkowsky my friend and longtime co-host of the Well’s blog conference. The cool thing about these interviews is that because they take two weeks and are published “live” they can cover… read more

Happy blog day to me

October 30 2009

Boy was I smart to start my first real blog on my birthday (in ‘97). It sure helps keep things straight around here. Somehow along the way I turned 45. What. The. Fuck? Now, in honor of the kind of manic blogging I used to do before the twitter and the… read more

teeny falls

October 28 2009

teeny falls Originally uploaded by true dirt Briggs took some wonderful pictures in Oz. This one’s from the rainy day we climbed down the ravines in the Blue Mountains. Some possibly related postsbig cardboard box, leetle teeny printer cartridgeSeaside Jazz Fest 2007Great, now I have to keep up with BuckyThese… read more

Designing social interfaces at Web Directions South 2009

October 12 2009

I had a great time presenting at Web Directions South 2009. J.J. Halans took some wonderful photos at the event, such as this one (showing Erin’s awesome visualization behind me: This image is another great one, as is this one, with the Where’s Waldo imagery behind me: The slides by… read more

Ukulele for geeks: secrets of the pentatonic scales

October 08 2009

My Ignite Sydney talk last night was fun (for me, at least). Here are my slides: Ukulele For Geeks: Secrets of the Pentatonic Scales View more presentations from Christian Crumlish. Here are a few audience shots. The first is from a warmup: This one is from the actual talk: Dag, my chrome… read more

First YDN video podcast with Jonathan Leblanc

September 28 2009

Jonathan gives a few shout outs to the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library and my new book, Designing Social Interfaces. Some possibly related postsSocial design patterns slides from BayCHI last weekSlides from Designing Social Interfaces at IA Summit 2009Too risky!Girl Talk at Yahoo!Get Your War On says time for us to come… read more

The book has arrived!

September 28 2009

the book has arrived! Originally uploaded by erin_designr We started our book proposal around June of ‘08… Some possibly related postsbig cardboard box, leetle teeny printer cartridgeGreat, now I have to keep up with BuckyWeird modal dialog box put up by iTunesThese are your most powerful and trusted friendsFrom MJ's… read more

Smile! You’re on candid skitch

September 28 2009

Not a manga or mad man among them. Some possibly related postsGreat, now I have to keep up with BuckyGoogle, you got me all wrong!gee and i've only met barlow onceinsert Microsoft overlords joke hereWeird modal dialog box put up by iTunes Related posts:gee and i’ve only met barlow onceNextFest was… read more

Slides from our mini-workshop at IDEA 2009

September 28 2009

Designing Social Interfaces: 5 steps, 5 principles, 5 anti-patternsView more presentations from erin malone. Related posts:Slides from Designing Social Interfaces at IA Summit 2009Designing Social Interfaces Web 2.0 Expo workshop slidesSee me speak at IDEA 2009 read more

The new phone book is (almost) here!

September 28 2009

The writing is over (for this edition), the book has “shipped to the printer,” and the cover mechanical (shown above, in its technicolor glory) is in the can. My tech writing career is now complete: an animal book with O’Reilly! Some possibly related postsThe wheel of convosThe Information Architecture of Social… read more

Presenting social patterns to patternistas at PLoP

September 28 2009

Social Design For Patternistas View more documents from Christian Crumlish. Last week I was in Chicago for PLoP (Pattern Languages of Programs) 2009, co-located with the Agile conference. PLoP is a unique conference, in some ways more like a funky academic confab than a typical tech industry conference. Most of the… read more

Today’s the last day to vote for my so-called SxSW panel

September 28 2009

Erin and I want to get a bunch of people together at South by Southwest in Austin next March to play SocialMania, the card game we’ve just started beta testing. If that sounds fun, go (sign up and) vote one snaps up for SocialMania: Designing Social Interfaces – The Game. Also,… read more

Yahoo! Design Pattern Library relaunches with 10 new social patterns

September 28 2009

Over one year in the making… The work of many hands… A much overdue look-and-feel refresh, with some much-needed (if subtle) usability improvements… I am bursting with pride that I’m able to announce today the relaunch of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library with “ten new patterns, a reorganized category-structure, cleaner URLs for easier… read more

The wheel of convos

September 28 2009

Pretty cool visualization of various types of social media platforms (based on a cyclical model of conversation). (via Nick Terry) Some possibly related postsThe new phone book is (almost) here!The Information Architecture of Social Experience Design: Five Principles, Five Anti-Patterns and 96 Patterns (in Three Buckets)Bulletin article BoingboingedSee me speak at IDEA… read more

See me speak at IDEA 2009

September 28 2009

The IDEA Conference looks at the intersection of physical and information space and wonders how you design experiences for that. At IDEA we'll combine a straightforward presentation of the ideas in Designing Social Interfaces with an interactive quasi-workshop activity involving play-testing a prototype card game we're designing. Related posts:Slides… read more

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