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• New Resource: Principles of User Interface Design
• Designing for the Next Step
• Design is not Horsepoop
• More on Burying the Sign Up Button
• The Golden Age of Design in Startups
• Why you Should Bury your Sign Up Button
• What our home pages are really saying (a dialog)
• How Steve Changed Things
• Five reasons why you should find what you love and double-down on it
• Redesigned: Facebook Logout Button
• Update on my new book, Make them Care!
• How Instagram Stays in Focus
• Important Question: Are your Customers also your Users?
• Netflix in Danger of Ruining their User Experience
• Interface Design is Copywriting
• The Process is not the Point
• Dieter Rams: “Apple has achieved something I never did”
• The Truth about Social Media
• 5 Reasons why Google+ is interesting UI.
• Functionality, Gamification, and Feedback Loops
• Creating Engaged and Passionate Users, Part 2
• Creating Engaged and Passionate Users, Part 1
• Designing for Social: 3 Core Principles at the Warm Gun Conference Oct 8
• Designing the Usage Lifecycle Workshop in Boston Oct 25
• Dunning-Kruger Effect: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is Part 1
• How (And When) to Motivate Yourself
• A good problem to have | Mike Industries
• Facebook Behaving Badly
• Strong, Weak, & Temporary Ties
• Apple Removes Rate on Delete for Apps in iPhone 4 – Mac Rumors
• Scott Adams on Curiosity
• The Undesirable Middle
• Are You Fun to Follow on Twitter?
• Five User Experience Trends
• Google: Forms & Landing Pages are Key
• Dreamers of Day
• On the Origins of Avatars
• The Most Important Feature of a Multi-Device Web: Syncing
• Looking for examples of microcopy
• Is Twitter Successful?
• Communicating Value through Cause & Effect on Fanfeedr
• Feature Development in Action: Broadcast Stream Messages in Socialcast
• Using your Sign-up form as a Qualifier
• No Sign-up Necessary (the strikethrough method)
• Coming Soon: Make them Care! (my new book)
• Designing for Social Traction (slide deck)
• What Metric are you Designing to Improve Today?
• The Agency Problem
• Steve Jobs on why Apple doesn’t do market research
• The behavior you’re seeing is the behavior you’ve designed for
• Yahoo’s one page experience
• Zappos’ culture evident in their design
• Finding Innovation in Design
• Celebrate the Passionates
• Too many anecdotes, not enough data
• 21 Quotes for Designers stolen from the World of Writing
• Designing for Active Lurkers
• Are you rewarding good behavior, or just any behavior?
• Speaking at Refresh Boston tonight about designing in a recession
• Designing with Psychology in Mind (AEA slide deck)
• Designing for Sign Up (video & slides)
• Usage Lifecycle: What are your user’s exit points?
• Writing Microcopy
• Behavior First, Design Second
• Avatars in Emails Increase Response Rate up to 20% for Rypple
• New Service: Interface Evaluation (Usability Audit)
• How Important are Avatars?
• Are you Building an Everyday App? (the LinkedIn problem)
• The Slow Erosion of Google Search
• Relationship Symmetry in Social Networks: Why Facebook will go Fully Asymmetric
• Demystifying Interaction Design
• Now blogging about personal informatics on the PopTech blog
• Not sure why I’m posting this video…
• Is Good Design Replicable?
• Game Mechanics for Interaction Design: An Interview with Amy Jo Kim
• The Curious Case of Twitter and Twply
• 7 ways designing in public can improve your business
• Why I like 37signals Design Decision Posts
• Thoughts on the Friendfeed interface
• What Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers can teach us about interface design
• Why the larger text?
• Upcoming Speaking Events
• The Tyranny of Context
• Tripit’s innovative design evolves (but is it for the worse?)
• What if Gall’s Law were true?
• Are Designers also Marketers?
• Book Recommendation: Letting Go of the Words
• The Live Web
• Slides from Leveraging Cognitive Bias Talk
• Activity-Centered Design
• Free chapter of Designing for the Social Web available
• My Proposals for 2009 SXSW Talks
• Passionates
• Tripit Employee Pretending to be Disgruntled Dopplr User?
• Can Interfaces be Evil?
• Interface Design Principle: Let people learn more
• North Shore Web Geek Meetup this week, now with talks!
• Social design: from customer service to innovation
• Co-evolving
• Bill Gates upset with Windows Usability
• Social Design Patterns for Reputation Systems: An Interview with Yahoo’s Bryce Glass (Part II)
• Social Design Patterns for Reputation Systems: An Interview with Yahoo’s Bryce Glass (Part I)
• 5 ways to improve reputation systems
• Why You Shouldn’t be Afraid of Customer Reviews
• Learning 2.0: The Threat (and promise) of Social Interaction
• Free Books: Smashing Magazine Books Giveaway
• Speaking at 2008 d.Construct
• The growing importance of Design
• A simple illustration of social design
• Early reviews of Designing for the Social Web are in!
• Interface design, writing, and sincerity
• Designing for the Social Web: Signs of Life
• More on the Usage Lifecycle: Lifecycle Messaging
• Designing for the Social Web: The Usage Lifecycle
• Douglas Adams on Interactivity
• Bootstrapping a Niche Social Network
• The Power of Niche Social Network Sites
• Two Worth Watching: Boston Web Studio and Social Media for Social Change Blog
• Why people don’t trust “bloggers”
• Designing for the Social Web: the Book
• North Shore Web Geek Meetup: April 17th at the Grog
• You didn’t come here from Google
• Own Your Identity, the Blog
• Markup & Style Society Talk
• Last Minute Notice: Newburyport Meetup Tomorrow Night
• Getting aboard the Cluetrain at SXSW
• Social Design Strategy at SXSW
• The Problem with Social Media Marketing
• Comic: Consumption
• Why Social Ads Don’t Work
• Taking Responsibility
• Comic: MySpace Ads
• The Importance of “People like Me” features
• The danger of social markers made public (more on the Social Graph API)
• Why I’m excited about the Google Social Graph API
• Does social software make us less social?
• Intro to Social Design Podcast
• 8 Things you didn’t know about me
• The Power of a Bruised Ego
• Personas as Tools
• Personas and the Advantage of Designing for Yourself
• North Shore Web Geek Meetup: Feb 7 in Newburyport, MA
• Fifty Two Percent
• Connect: A Guide to a New Way of Working (book review)
• Facebook, Lifelets, and Designer Responsibility
• North Shore Web Geek Meetup: Jan 3 in Newburyport, MA
• Digg’s Design Dilemma Redux
• Facebook a wealth of data for researchers
• Comic: Facebook Movie Quiz
• Amazon Wish List Sharing gets it Wrong
• Yahoo Movies and the Law of Web Page Sprawl
• Weekend Update: Reading list, referral logs, and an interview
• The future of your social software is already here
• Did the Long Tail Beget Social Design?
• Facebook’s Growing Design Problem (and a proposed solution)
• Social Design Reading List
• Canonical Web Design, Redux
• Facebook’s Brilliant but Evil design
• Do Canonical Web Designs Exist?
• Foamee: a barnacle app for indebted drinkers
• Ebay design: Provide Conditions to Cooperate
• The Difference between a Recommendation and an Ad
• Will Flickr and YouTube outlast MySpace and Facebook?
• Google’s Social Design Best Practices
• Making private identity public
• Great Community Design Talk by Christina Wodtke
• Is Harriet Klausner for real?
• Humility and Arrogance
• Be Careful what you put in a Template
• Interfaces need editors
• Weak Ties and Diversity in Social Networks
• What Barnes & Noble could have said
• Ballmer on Facebook: Bunch of Features
• Finding the primary pivot
• Jeff Bezos on Amazon’s Personalization Strategy
• Improve your online sharing
• The Value of Visualizing Information
• The #1 Problem in Web Design
• Should designers optimize for page views…or user experience?
• Community Building isn’t about Features
• Interesting Social Feature: The Yelp Elite Squad
• How to be an Empathic Web Designer
• The Social Graph and Objects of Sociality
• The Business of Design: Are our expectations changing?
• The Danger of Aggregate Displays in Social Software
• Open Letter to Derek Powazek
• What it means when a client says “Pop”
• On Increasingly Sophisticated Social Interfaces
• What if YouTube was simply lucky?
• YouTube, Lazy Sunday, and Elephant Math
• Sermo a sign of a larger trend toward specialized social networks
• 16 Core Observations of Social Design
• Announcing the Publishing 2.0 Redesign
• Psychology of Social Design Talk
• Friday Rant: Are people self-interested?
• Why I started Bokardo Design
• Putting the Del.icio.us Lesson into Practice, Part II: Feature Creep
• Comic: Are you adding enough user-generated content?
• Interface Compare: Inviting Friends on MySpace & Facebook
• Why the Microsoft Zune is Set up to Fail
• How does Strategy affect Design?
• Upcoming Speaking Events
• Putting the Del.icio.us Lesson into Practice, Part I: The Cold-Start Problem
• Seth Godin’s Job #1: Community Management
• Welcome to the Stream
• What Do People Talk About?
• Seizing the Opportunity: Bokardo is becoming a design company
• Why is the Netflix Site Good?
• Dean Kamen on Design Responsibility
• Taxonomies and Tags
• Common Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications and How to Avoid Them, Part 3
• Netflix is Designing with Community Input
• GrandCentral is People-Centric
• Apple’s iPhone and Social Proof
• You can’t be social by yourself
• Social Classes on Networking Sites
• The Opaque Value Problem (or, Why do people use Twitter?)
• Design vs. Art Quotes
• Common Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications and How to Avoid Them, Part 2
• Comic: Et tu, Brute?
• Design is Not Art, Redux
• Can Design Change the World?
• It’s Just People Talking
• Two Great Videos in Plain English
• Common Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications and How to Avoid Them
• Cult of the Pundit
• Extending the Circles of Relationships
• Facebook and Circles of Relationships
• Comic: Is it Useful?
• How to Design for Word-of-Mouth
• Comic: Jakob Who?
• Real world gamed?
• Comic: Hyperlinks and Hierarchy
• Why founders should be part of their community
• Live by the Digg, Die by the Digg
• Give people something to copy
• Comic: User Pain
• Woman Denied Degree because of MySpace Profile Pic
• Why invest in Social Features?
• The Web is a Social Creation
• 3 Necessary Conditions for Human Cooperation
• Digg Surrenders to Community
• PEW Report: Teens Getting Smart about Online Privacy
• Blinded by the Apple iPod
• Google and the Trust Issue
• Trend: Social Networking passes Porn
• Comic: Content or Design?
• The hidden lives of MySpacers
• The Blog is the New Resume
• Collaboration is the Killer App
• How Aggregate Displays Change User Behavior
• Why Circle of Friends Works in Social Networking
• Shift Happens
• Make your Blog more Usable
• Does Form Really Follow Function?
• Kudos to Kathy Sierra
• 9 More Lessons for Would-Be Bloggers
• 4 Behaviors of Sociality
• Another reason why Twitter is so interesting
• Comic: 2.0 2.0
• 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers
• How Social is Amazon?
• The Shaker Design Philosophy
• Five Principles to Design By
• Domain as Identity Getting Closer to Real
• Gender Issues
• More Thoughts on the Impending Death of Information Architecture
• Going to SXSW
• Designing Relationships
• Rebuilding the Old Boss
• Can we talk about politics and design at the same time?
• Bokardo has been cowblogtipped
• Judgment happens quickly, value happens over time
• How to Prevent Valueless Design in Social Web Sites
• Folksonomies in Mac OS X?
• Digg Scraps Top Diggers List
• Pew Study: 28% of Online Americans are Taggers
• Is there an Example of a Usable Folksonomy?
• Is there an Example of a Scalable Taxonomy?
• Starting a Social App? Find a niche and work outward
• Hilary Clinton Uses Yahoo Answers
• Tip for Amazon Designers: Lots of Folks Don’t Know How to Exclude Gifts from Recommendations
• MySpace sued over predator assaults
• Visual and Social Design
• What is Dunbar’s Number?
• The iPhone or Marriage: which is the ultimate lock-in?
• Pew Study on Social Networking and Kids
• The iPhone has no Buttons!
• Killer Mobile App? Making Phone Calls
• Blogs enable more than they begin
• 3 Predictions about Apple’s Social Software Future
• Continuous Computing: all social, all the time
• Does SPAM force us to switch messaging technologies?
• Review of 2006 Predictions
• Josh and Jared Show
• The Value of Self-expression
• Why do People Tag?
• Update
• Use of “Social” Exploding
• A Refreshing Attitude
• Social Design Efficiency
• Web as Platform
• New York Times Goes Social
• Yes Virginia, there is SPAM on Digg
• XBox Wireless 360 Controller Winner
• Why iTunes Needs an “Album-Only” Enema
• Surowiecki’s In Praise of Third Place
• Zeldman on Usability
• Caterina of Flickr on Communication and Freedom
• Podcast on Social Design with Brian Oberkirch
• One Day Left
• Why Scale Matters in Tagging Systems
• Win an XBox 360 Wireless Controller just for reading Bokardo!
• Thoughts on the Impending Death of Information Architecture
• How to Get Over People Breaking Your Design
• On The Convergence of Email and Chat (Google and Apple [and Yahoo] Get It)
• Designing for Groups
• Digg’s Disincentive Highlights Social Design Issues Clearly
• A Fundamental Truth of the Web
• Know any Social Designers?
• Google, MIT, and IBM to invest in Social Web Research
• Social problems need social design
• Is social all about cool? (Or why teens switch from MySpace)
• Re-inventing HTML
• On the Record, by Default
• The Paradox of Choice: What’s Easiest
• Paying People for Voted-on Content: What’s the Right Model?
• Different Context, Different Design
• YouTube and the Importance of Top-of-Mind
• Paul Rand on Design
• Great Designers…
• Myspace as Freedom?
• Writing as IT
• The Lifecycle of Design: Part 4
• Storey.
• Learning the Intracacies of Privacy in the Facebook Blowup
• The Lifecycle of Design: Part 3
• The Lifecycle of Design: Part 2
• The Lifecycle of Design: Part 1
• Grazr Goes 1.0, Relaunches with Video
• Democradig is Digg without Gaming
• Digg’s Design Dilemma
• The 5 W’s of Social Software
• 99% of Web Design Books are Not
• Flickr’s Geotags Feature: Wow!
• Are Social Web Apps Here to Stay?
• Sims Creator on the Social Aspects of Computers
• Ugliness, Social Design, and the MySpace Lesson
• Apple Making Huge Social Software Push?
• Why Netscape Will Succeed
• My Number is Bigger than Yours
• Google and Yahoo Design Throwdown
• Tagging Talk
• A Messaging Proxy and Domain as Identity
• Social Networks are Killing Email
• The Business of Web Design
• Self-expression in Web Design
• The Secret They Don’t Tell You in Graphic Design Class
• Find the Edge of Attention
• More on The MySpace Problem
• The Chanel No. 5 Lesson
• How we make sense of what we see
• Time Spent Designing
• The Origin of Bokardo
• The Non-collision of Relationship and Independent George
• Designing for Change
• Why Bad Design Still Exists & Other Thoughts (podcast)
• Does Google Succeed Despite Bad Design?
• 7 More Reasons Why Web Apps Fail
• Good News
• 7 Reasons Why Web Apps Fail
• The Del.icio.us Lesson
• Shouldn’t the Wisdom of Crowds lead to better politicians?
• An Event Worth Choosing
• On Browse
• On Mediation
• Tessa
• On Second Coming
• On Congenial
• 20 Important Tools
• On Growing
• Evolution of Ideas
• Where is your money?
• On Individual Wisdom
• On Breaking
• Design is like a Hand of Cards
• On Real World
• On Banish
• The One Crucial Idea of Web 2.0
• On Man or Machine
• Monetize This!
• OPML Podcast
• On Patterns
• The Digital Funes the Memorious
• On Intention
• Familiarity in the Recommendosphere
• On Why Ugly Design Works
• Transparency and Control
• On Google’s Transparent Personalization
• A Small Yet Significant Switch
• On Delicious Intelligence
• On OPML 2.0
• The Long Tail of Popularity
• On Product Design
• Malcolm’s Got a Blog
• On Business Value
• On Web Standards
• A Freelance Project
• On Passive
• Web 2.0 Talk – Leveraging the Network
• On Faith
• On Noise
• The Evolution of Information Grazing
• On Changing the World
• Authority, Whose Authority?
• On Why A-plus.net Sucks and Privacy Policies
• On Bridge
• On Rereading Shirky
• Reading Lists Podcast
• On Machinery
• On Bubble Software
• On Adjectives
• Ninged and Flocked
• On Web as Platform
• On Googlemendations
• On Gardening
• Dynamic Reading Lists
• Innovation in Gmail
• Gillmor’s Theory of Everything (podcast)
• On Advocating for Users
• On Medium
• On Consumptionscape
• On Aspire
• On Billions
• On Mimic
• Here’s an Idea…
• Why Not a Paid Version of Gmail?
• On Ass-Kicking
• On Friends
• On Open Ideas
• The Most Important Statistic of them All
• What is Tim Berners-Lee Blogging About?
• Mining the Two Types of User-Supplied Content
• On Moving Forward
• On Attention Problems
• Help…My Attention is Dead!
• Potential Game-Changer: TV Recommendations on Live.com
• Microsoft Didn’t Give User Data to DOJ in Privacy Case (podcast)
• In the Blogging World You Don’t Have Sex on the First Date
• On Time Spent Thinking
• On Personal Level
• On Organization
• Why the 50ms Finding Can Be Misleading
• On Change
• On Progress
• On Visual Appeal
• Simple. Desirable. Sharable.
• Why Zeldman’s Web 3.0 Misses the Mark
• Trends to Watch in 2006 – Part 3
• Trends to Watch in 2006 – Part 2
• Trends to Watch in 2006
• Parcelling Out Attention: Handling Requests for Product Placements on your Blog
• Seth Godin on Self-Promotion
• Learning More about Structured Blogging
• Why I Use the Term “Web 2.0″
• First Try at Structured Blogging: Review of King Kong
• Interview about Blogging
• Structured Blogging Podcast with Marc Canter and Joe Reger, Part 2
• Structured Blogging Podcast with Marc Canter and Joe Reger
• Meebo’s Voice
• Top Web 2.0 Events
• Attention Attention
• Structured Blogging: Who is Benefitting and How?
• The Wisdom of Godin
• The Wisdom of Searls
• Folksonomy Has a Big Year
• An Introduction to Web 2.0
• Identity/Attention Podcast
• Living in a Networked World: Redux
• So what do we do at UIE?
• Living in a Networked World: Is Less More?
• Passing Along Some Pointers
• Unbundled Media
• Domain as Identity?
• Attention Podcast with Alex Barnett, Part 2
• Attention Podcast with Alex Barnett
• 19 Highly Recommended Blogs
• Attention, Buying a Car, and Control
• Attention the Prom Queen
• Cringely: Google = Web 2.0 = Game Over
• Podcast of Web 2.0 Talk
• More Flash vs. Ajax
• Google Base Item Types
• Ebay to Make API Free
• Jon Udell on Simple Online Word Processing with XML
• Why Should I Trust Microsoft with My Attention Metadata?
• Dave Digs Subscribe
• Having Fun with APIs
• AttentionTrust – Returning Attention to its Rightful Owner: You
• Moving From Average Value to Personal Value in Search/News