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Erin Malone

http://twitter.com/emalone

San Francisco, California

Areas of Expertise:

  • Interaction design
  • information architecture
  • content strategy
  • social media design
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • training
  • writing

Biography

Erin Malone, Principal at Tangible ux, has over 20 years of experience leading design teams and developing web and software applications, social experiences and system-wide solutions. Prior to Tangible, she was at Yahoo! where she led the Platform User Experience Design team and was responsible for building the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library and for providing design expertise to the popular YUI (Yahoo! User Interface Library). Additionally, she led the redesign of the Yahoo! Developer Network, oversaw the redesign of Yahoo!’s Registration system, designed cross-network social solutions, developed the ux team’s Intranet and worked on other cross-company initiatives.

Before Yahoo!, she was a Design Director at AOL leading a range of community and personalization initiatives; Creative Director at AltaVista responsible for the AV Live portal and Chief Information Architect for Zip2 which produced a custom content management system for local city guides, entertainment guides, community tools, maps and yellow pages, including New York Today for the NYTimes.

She was the founding editor-in-chief of Boxes and Arrows, a role she served for 5 years. She is the author of several articles on interaction design history and design management and a founding member of the IA Institute.

Erin has a BFA in Communication Design from East Carolina University (1986), Greenville NC and an MFA in Information Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology (1994), Rochester NY.

She is the author of the book Designing Social Interfaces with Christian Crumlish for O’Reilly Media and its related site Designing Social Interfaces.

Books

Blog

Erin's blog posts are hosted at:
http://www.emdezine.com/deziningInteractions/

Unintended Side Effects

November 21 2009

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 solve them. Most recently at Web 2.0, I was talking with a bunch of smart, interesting people and a few things… read more

Web 2.0 NY – Designing Social Interfaces Workshop

November 20 2009

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 out into a 3 hour, hands on workshop. I believe it went well. Here are… read more

Speaking about social interfaces at IxDA SF

October 31 2009

Designing Social Interfaces: 5 principles, 5 practices, 5 antipatterns View more presentations from erin malone. Last night I spoke at the IxDA San Francisco October event. I did a little longer version of the talk than what Christian and I did at IDEA09 and I think it’s a better talk. The… read more

Diagramming the Social Ecosystem

October 09 2009

One of the things we have been doing since way before we started the book, was to visualize the social ecosystem and the inter-relationships between categories, patterns and principles. Back in 2007, when I was still at Yahoo! and Bryce Glass was on my team, we developed a diagram for… read more

Unveiling Social Mania: The Game at Idea 09

September 27 2009

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, 5 principles and 5 anti-patterns. The talk went well but the big deal was unveiling and playing the game. While we were writing the book,… read more

Slides from our talk

September 21 2009

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 in the book. A 40 minute talk barely taps into the breadth of content from the book, but it’s a nice teaser. Designing… read more

The Book is on the press

September 10 2009

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 weeks from now I should be holding it in my hand. In the meantime, here's the front and… read more

Join me at IDEA2009 on Sept 15-16

August 31 2009

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 previous versions of this conference but was never able to attend (working for the man, I was only allowed… read more

New design, new patterns

August 20 2009

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 started way before I left Yahoo! and was supposed to be part of the YDN overhaul project I led. But life and other projects… read more
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