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May 19, 2008
Back in April, several members of the Yahoo! Developer Network user experience design team attended and presented talks and workshops at the 9th annual IA Summit held in Miami.
Christian Crumlish, Lucas Pettinati, and I gave a well-attended workshop on Designing and Building a Pattern Library and using Design Patterns and YUI to rapidly build sites. We released a set of design stencils for Omnigraffle, Visio, Illustrator PDFs and Photoshop PNGs representing our pattern and YUI components to attendees that will allow easy design using these tools. They are now also available on the public Pattern Library site for download. This is a work in progress and will be updated regularly as we add new patterns to the library.
In addition to our workshop, Christian also spoke on Designing with Patterns in the Real World: Lessons from Yahoo! and Comcast: (Podcast)
Christian also moderated a panel on Identity and Presence; it was funny, insightful, and even included practical tips. Slides from the panelists' talks are available on SlideShare: Christian Crumlish's slides | Christina Wodtke's slides | Podcast
Lucas Pettinati presented a great talk on users and their data. He delivered some best practices for guiding users through the process of registering on a site and recovering sensitive data: (Podcast)
Yahoo! user experience designer Luke Wroblewski gave a talk on Content Page Design Best Practices
(Slides
| Podcast) and Bryce Glass delivered a talk titled Designing Your Reputation System:
Thanks to Boxes and Arrows for recording the talks and making them available as podcasts or streaming audio.
You can subscribe to the podcasts at iTunes or listen to them direct from Boxes and Arrows here: IA Summit 2008, Day 1 | IA Summit 2008, Day 2 | IA Summit 2008, Day 3
Social media, a hot topic in the online world in general, was a prominent theme in the talks and hallway conversations over the three days of the conference. Discussions revolved around the design and building of social media spaces and how IAs (information architects) and interaction designers need to consider these complex design problems. Designers have an opportunity to lead the way in crafting the spaces and frameworks where users create meaning and conversation. Many presentations and offline discussions worked through these ideas to formulate interesting solutions and best practices for social design.
Miles Rochford of Nokia delivered a thoughtful talk about anti-social networks and evil people and their impact on social media. He introduced the themes of ubiquity, eternity, and serendipity. These big concepts provide designers with some fresh food for thought, as we rush to create systems to take in user content and user relationships. Rochford cautioned that we should be aware of how our users change over time, how they own or should own their data, and how spaces need to be created to enable unplanned uses and interactions. He emphasized that the notion of interactive spaces will soon be everywhere - not just on the computer or mobile device. It was a lively talk and generated a lot of questions and followup discussion.
The summit was at once practical and thoughtful. A little philosophy mixed with some tactical techniques plus the warm Miami sunshine made for a good mix of learning and networking.
Erin Malone
Yahoo! Developer Network
Posted at May 19, 2008 3:56 PM
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