Hello, and welcome to my site! I'm a digital anthropologist, design researcher, and user experience consultant. I'm generally passionate about social interaction design -- or the design of social software. This requires both anthropological and sociological perspectives to understand how and why users interact in online spaces. The goal of my work is to make beautiful products that fit naturally within people's existing workflow.
My independent work involves understanding the role of social interactions during search (so-called "social search"), and subsequently conceptualizing and prototyping systems that support design implications. This talk is a synthesis of my work on social search (including wireframe samples at the end).
As a consultant, I've worked with the betacup initiative (a social sustainability project); with Microsoft to understand the social practices of web developers; with BitDefender to improve the user experience for their anti-virus software; as well as with smaller teams, for example, to design a "social shirt".
I'm an avid Mechanical Turk experimenteur. And I like to draw comics and drink high-end Japanese green tea! (You can find my comics on scribd.)
I have an MS in Cognitive Science and undergrad degrees in Science & Technology in Society and Psychology.
Where To Find Me
Brynnafred is my blog.
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You can download my current resume.
