July 2009 21
A conversation with Thomas Vander Wal
Posted By : Adrian Chan

The following is a raw and unedited email exchange between myself and Thomas Vander Wal (@vanderwal), fellow social interaction designer and social software architect par excellance. Thomas and I have complementary perspectives on social media

June 2009 12
Re-framing the problem: SxD
Posted By : Adrian Chan

This post is about social interaction design. I’ve been gestating around the concept of “frames” for the past couple weeks. Frames of meaning, frames of experience, and frames as a concept for a user-centric description

June 2009 06
Behavior: hard-wired or soft-aware?
Posted By : Adrian Chan

Josh Porter has a nice post out this week on the importance of taking user behaviors into account in social experience design. In Behavior First, Design Second, he makes use of an example I often

June 2009 03
Users: which is which, and who is who?
Posted By : Adrian Chan

Who knows?On the phone yesterday with friend and colleague John Cass (SNCR), he happened upon an interesting topic. One for social media professionals of all kinds: designers, builders, funders, pundits. The question came up: doesn’t

April 2009 10
The Inmates Have Requested Asylum
Posted By : Adrian Chan

I spent much of yesterday afternoon listening to podcasts from a conference I wish I had attended: the IA Summit. The podcasts are up on Boxes and Arrows (thank you Chris Baum!) and are well