Gravity7
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Recent
- Social design of the collaborative economy
- Mirror, surface, window – three modes of the social screen
- Gravity7 to Enterprise…UX and social in the workaday world
- The conundrum of corporate social media use
- Enterprise systems of engagement — social designers needed
- Apple, the rise and fall of “aura,” and the social brand image
- Big UX, small UX
- Instagram profiles: the social image
- The system that breaks is not the system that repairs
- Beyond the Social Object
- The medium and its messengers: story-telling and social media
- Marketers may talk value, but user experience should not
- Zen, and the art of game mechanics
- All experience is organized
- Anchoring UX in Agile by means of stories
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I am currently UX lead and manager at DeloitteDigital, San Francisco.
I make your social media work better for people. Social Interaction Design (SxD) is user-centric approach to social media design, implementation, and strategy that accounts for how different kinds of users engage with social media, and how sites and application design and execution lead to emergent social practices. It applies to user experience design (UX), interaction design (IxD), user interface design (UI), and information architecture (IA). It draws on insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, communication theory, and media theory. I am available for consulting to design agencies, social media agencies, startups, and social media campaign managers.
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Founder, SxdSalon>, a group blog
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Socially-mediated branding: Revangelism?
I have been talking about socially-mediated branding without having really offered a description of what I mean by it. In follow up to yesterday’s post on consumers and their identification with brands, I want to just unpack this idea a … Continue reading
Socially-mediated branding: identify yourself
If one did a semantic analysis of the language I use in my blog posts of late, I’d not be surprised if two of the words I use most are “many” and “different.” I much prefer many and different to … Continue reading
The sociability spec: documenting social interaction requirements
The social interaction requirements docWe’re all familiar with the MRD and PRD, documents used to set market and product requirements for a new software application or service. For social media products, I think there’s another piece of documentation worth writing. … Continue reading