I have news! This week I decided to take a jobby job at Bolt | Peters (BP), a UX firm in San Francisco, as their Social Interaction Lead. I am really excited about this and wanted to share my reasons why!
Great people
I have always liked Nate Bolt (El Presidente) and his crew at BP, [...]
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 [...]
Last week I made a vision board for 2010, which I have to recommend as an exercise to others! I already had a “themeword” for the year (see my previous post), but I wanted something in addition as a reminder of my goals, hopes, or dreams. When I set out to actually create the vision [...]
I was contacted by a dutch journalist who’s writing an article on the merits of social interaction versus search engines. She read a paper of mine and emailed me with two questions. I thought it’d be useful to post my reply publicly:
First, do you think search engines making use of social networks will improve search [...]
Really, this post is a reflection on 2009 and a look forward to 2010. 2009 was a strange year for me—it was like the growing pains of your teenage years.
I started the year as Ph.D. student at UC San Diego. That sounds benign, but in fact, I was facing a department that set me [...]
