This was originally posted on the Bolt|Peters blog on February 2, 2010, as a guest author.
What is social interaction design?
Social interaction design (SxD) is the practice of designing for person-to-person interactions mediated by a computer interface, going beyond pure usability and human-computer interaction. Even fairly solitary experiences like editing a Wikipedia page occur in a [...]
This was originally posted on ReadWriteWeb on November 12, 2009, as a guest author.
With Google’s Social Search experiment, Bing’s integration with Twitter, and with Yahoo!’s partnership with One Riot—it’s clear that social search has both potential and momentum. But what will social search look like, and will it help us search better? And if it [...]
I’ve been reading Bill Tancer’s book Click. He works for a company called HitWise that has access to millions of search terms from across the web — by finding trends in these queries, he claims that we can learn about people’s actual motivations, interests, behaviors, and, even, fears.
A word before I go on: I generally think [...]
Here’s the video from our bodystorming exercise at Overlap09. We were trying to illustrate how our early betacup prototype could reduce paper cup waste and encourage eco-friendly behaviors among consumers. We’d love for any and all feedback!
The betacup Bodystorming Session – Overlap 09 from The betacup on Vimeo.
“I grabbed a cup of instant from the hospitality table on the second morning of orientation. It was piping hot and I was in a hurry, so I stuck an ice cube in, but then a friend hailed me and began chatting; by the time we parted, I was holding a cup of watery lukewarm [...]
