Brynn Marie Evans

Category Archives: sxd

Tummelvision recap: On social interaction design

5 Aug 2010 – 19:38

I just signed off Tummelvision, a weekly podcast/videocast (in some cases) led by Deb Schultz, Heather Gold, and Kevin Marks, where we had a fascinating conversation about designing for social interactions. I was a lucky guest along with Julie Hamwood from Adaptive Path. The conversation was really stimulating, and wound in and out of perspectives [...]

By brynn | Tagged interview, podcast, social interaction design, social search, sxd | Comments (3)

User experience of the iPhone vs. iPad

15 Jun 2010 – 18:31

My company, Bolt | Peters, recently conducted a user experience study of interactions on the iPhone vs. the iPad using a mobile payment system called Square. The most important take-away of this study to me is how social all our technologies are becoming — and how important social is as a design consideration. (We saw this with [...]

By brynn | Also posted in userexperience | Tagged boltpeters, ipad, iphone, sightglass, social interaction design, square, sxd, user experience, ux | Comments (1)

How many users for social design problems?

24 Apr 2010 – 20:01

I’ve been thinking a lot about research methods for social design problems. For example, how do you research what goes on on Facebook? How does Facebook do this currently? I believe they use metrics from their data team — which I do not believe really uncover social interaction design issues. How do you research how the unemployed [...]

By brynn | Also posted in research | Tagged methods, qualitative data, research, social design, social interaction design, sxd, usability, user testing | Comments (2)

On why people ask questions on social networks

24 Apr 2010 – 19:05

Social search behavior is now generally agreed to be common enough that companies like Google are buying up companies like Aardvark, and academic researchers are asking good questions about the value of networks for question-answering (Q-A). I have done a bit of research in this area myself, and so I was quite pleased to read [...]

By brynn | Also posted in research, social search | Tagged aardvark, google, microsoft, paper, research, search, social interaction design, social network sites, social networking, social search, sxd | Comments (1)

Enterprise social search: a design workshop in San Francisco

19 Apr 2010 – 8:07

This just in! Will Evans and I are putting on a design workshop in San Francisco around the theme of enterprise social search. The workshop will be an all-day affair on Friday May 7 at the Bolt | Peters offices, near the Civic Center. Detailed information and registration can be found here: http://socialsear.ch Why Enterprise [...]