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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
Annotating Podcasts
Beattie on Making Money
How I ended up on Boing Boing
Bubble 2.0 and Flock
How Does Amazon Scale Behavior Modelling?
Why Memeorandum is Special
Scalability a Growing Problem in Web 2.0
How Google Models How We Value Content
Joining the Web 2.0 Workgroup
A Social Revolution by Modeling Human Behavior
UIConf: Ajax Everywhere
UIConf: Web Application Types: Interview, Hub & Spoke, Hybrid
Web-based Office Competition Heats Up
Web2Con: Remixing/Mash-up Apps and Competitive Advantage
Web2Con: The Value of Structured Blogging
Software the Matches Our Authority Model
Tag it web2con
Notes on the Redesign
Web2Con: Emergent Tags
Web2Con: Popularity Decay in Tagging
Web 2.0 Coverage
Google Maps Idea
Web as Rain Forest
Which Came First, RSS or Web 2.0?
O’Reilly answers What is Web 2.0?
Conference Season
3 Great Web 2.0 Sites
More Web 2.0 Questions
Web 2.0 as the Era of Interfaces, Redux
Yahoo! and Open Sourcing Innovation
Google Testing 2 New Services
What Book to Read Next?
Tech.Memeorandum’s Filtering Illustrates Web 2.0’s Most Important Skill
How does Pubsub Linkcount Work?
Ajax Pushes Microcontent Out the Door
Web (Wide | Live) Web
MVC in PHP
Big Time Research on Tagging
Talking about Web 2.0 with Designers
AJAX Pages: Embedded Javascript
Flock, a Social Browser
Which Movie to Watch? An Overview of Recommendation Systems
John Battelle’s “The Search”
Doc’s Digging Tagging
Building Bubble-Up Folksonomies
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 to Kick Ass
Web 2.0 Book
A Glimpse of the Future: Joe Reger’s XML Schema Coolness
ThinkFree Office Online
My New Favorite Blog
Quick Overview of Greasemonkey
Standards-based Ajax Beats Flash Anyday
Alex Barnett and his Shortening Tail
Writing Semantic Markup
The Long Tail and Web 2.0
Microsoft could take Huge Blow from Open Data
Web 2.0 Drinking Game
RSS and Atom, Compared
Bottoms-Up Semantics by Agile XML
Gaming RSS feeds
Jeff Jarvis: Who wants to own content?
Web Sites and Window Width
Google Building the Web as Platform
Web 2.0 is Not About Technology, Its About Sharing Information
Restrictive APIs
Kottke on Web as OS
ALA 4.0: A Few Thoughts
On Group Blogging
Stewart Sets Me Straight
Selfish Tagging
Web Sites as DLLs
Del.icio.us Recommendations
Bray Exposes Real Problem with Feeds: They’re not one-click
Technorati Tags: What Are They Really?
“Feed” Becoming Preferred Term
BayCHI Web 2.0: the Language of Web 2.0 is Solidifying
A Stone Cutter’s Worst Nightmare
Introducing UIE Brain Sparks
Weekend Reading Recommendation: BBC’s Interview with Tim Berners-Lee
Interface Remixers will Pay for Privilege of APIs
RSS as a Web 2.0 Platform
Web 2.0 like MVC?
Open for Business: The Importance of Sharing Content
Dave Winer on OPML
The Web 2.o Naming Backlash
How to Know if a Post is Interesting (or Not)
Style Your RSS Feed with CSS
Weekend Reading Recommendation: Paul Graham’s Latest Essay
Going “All Blog”
Recommended Site: Watkins Get His Ajax On
Safari supports CSS3 Background Properties
Technorati and Del.icio.us Tagging: A Quick Comparison Study
Web 2.0 as the Era of Interfaces
A Prediction about IE7
More on RSS/Subscribing
What are we Missing?
Great Discussion on Tagging and Decentralization
Google Maps Ads Hybrid View
Paradox of the Active User & Tryability
No Learning Curve as the Most Important Feature of a Web App
More on Tryability: It’s an Attention Thing
Something to Try: Two types of Feed URLs
Instant Tryability: the Big Advantage for Web-based Apps
Rubel Dumps Microsoft for Web 2.0
NYTimes picks up on Web 2.0 Mapping Services
Ajax Article from a Different Perspective
API-Only Services: It’s a Reasonable Question
The Two Kinds of Interfaces in Web 2.0
XML and Javascript: the Familiar Technology of Web 2.0
Interface Elements for Providing Feeds and Having People Subscribe to Them
Google Releases Maps API
A Short Introduction to Microformats: a Stepping Stone on the Way to Semantic Markup, or a Distraction from It?
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Internet
The Web as Marketing? (inspired by Seth Godin)
Fast Clarity: The Answer in an Attention Economy
Don’t Click It
The Ups and Downs of Full-Text RSS Feeds
A Scenario about What Goes On when You’re Using a Feed Reader
Why Don’t the Big 4 Switch to Web Standards?
Your Interface is Your Product
Some Weekend Reading
Knemeyer Controlled in Response
More on Navigation Habits within Feed Readers
Navigation Habits Within Feed Readers
Google and Yahoo Interfaces (via Functioning Form)
Google Creating Information Architecture XML format?
Just What Exactly Is an Interface? (definition)
Interview with Web Standards Queen Molly Holzschlag
Zeldman’s Ten Years
Peterme on the Dark Side of Design
What’s the Ideal Interface?
Give up Control or You’ll Lose it Forever: Experience Designers Beware - Web 2.0 Interfaces Change Everything
Popularity vs. Quality: Is the Long Tail Full of Crap?
Sifry’s Elevator Pitch for Tagging
Interesting Feedback on Boring Site
Fundable’s Elevator Pitch is a Nice Interface
Folksonomies and Google Maps?
Google Maps Spawns Many Web 2.0 Interfaces
Usable Ajax by Thomas Baekdal
Cool Web 2.0 Interface: Backpack
X-Wing Fighters and Classification Systems
Luke W. on Ajax and Web Apps
Thinking about Making a Web 2.0 Interface?
Nice Ajax Article by Derek Powazek
How are you using Ajax?
Best Blog Post of 2005 from Seth Godin
Check out O’Reilly Radar
Some Complaints about Wordpress
Attention is not Automation
Luke W. on Amazon’s Tabbed Interface
Read this Post because it has Zeldman in the Title
Web 2.0 Design Article on Digital Web
Zeldman Dishes Tag Clouds
Tagsonomy.com: A New Site on Tagging
Why Setting Initial Focus To Input Boxes Isn’t Always a Good Thing
Vander Wal talks about State
Two Cool Things from Gordon: Freetag & a Post
The Difficulty with Articulating Design
Folksonomy Article on UIE
Holy Amazing Interface, Batman! Paul Rademacher’s Brilliant Lodging Finder
Adaptive Path working on Ajax app?
Feedback for RSS Feed Reader Rojo
Ruby on Rails, Rife, and Cake
Our Ideas are Worth Something
Weighted Lists and Accessibility
Your Site Should Be as Unique as Your Company
Podcasting Taking Off
Site Under Construction
Infoworld using Del.icio.us for Related Content
Predicting User Behavior
SEO and Quality Content
Shirky on Ontologies
Thoughts on Emergence
The Interface is Where Innovations Find Value
Interface Design Code, Inspiration, and Camels
Do you believe in Mental Models?
Bloglines introduces “unique to me”, What are microformats good for?, and Naming
Question: What Web Design Conference gets you Molly, Eric, and iPods?
Follow-up: Designing Hierarchical IAs
Seeing the Communication Forest through the Folksonomy Trees
Tags, Autolink, and Microformats
Bottoms-Up!
Deciding What Features to Implement: Let Features Emerge From User Behavior
An Open Question for Information Architects
Scoble Questions WASP, Opera
Why We Can’t Compare Folksonomies to Search
Folksonomies Hit the Conference Trail
IBM’s Taxonomies and Comparing Knowledge Systems (Notes)
Controlled Vocabularies Cut Off the Long Tail
Folksonomies and What’s At Stake
Deciding what Features to Implement: Go for the Win-Win.
Amazon funding the 43Things Folksonomy?
Design Challenges
I’ve Heard of Folksonomies. Now How do I Apply them to My Site?
Controlled Vocabularies and Folksonomies: Why Change is Good.
Folksonomy Notes: Considering the Downsides, Behavioral Trends, and Adaptation
A Self-Referential Demonstration of the Power of the Del.icio.us Folksonomy
Better Graphic Design by Maria Acosta
Making Money with Blogs: An Overview
Information Gathering as an End in Itself
Permalinks and a Company’s Fortune
You want Styles with That?
Favorite Blog Entry: Follow-up
What’s Your Favorite Blog Entry?
Apple, Innovation, and Me
Why RSS is Coming to an Interface Near You
Why Usability Folks Don’t Focus on Visuals in Design
How does Web Credibility Relate to Web Design?
The Most Critical Moment of Web Design
More on Content Aggregators
If Only Links Lived Up To Their Promise
Five Minute Mystery Solution
Five-Minute Mysteries: Context and Behavior
The Battles for Peace and Web Standards: Two Battles We Shouldn’t Have To Fight
After Reading Zeldman’s Silence and Noise
One Hour to Improve A Web Site
To Know Something is Different than to Actually Do It.
The Invisible Designer: How Can Personal Motivations Affect Design?
The Dangers of Judging Web Designs Superficially
Who Cares How Pretty Web Sites Are?
The Effect of Web Standards on Users
Why Users Can be Hard to Design For
Some Reasons Why Web Standards Are Difficult to Learn
Common Ways Links Fail Users
5 Points Concerning Designers Vs. Usability Folks
Are Designers Focused Enough on User Needs?
Who Do Diagrams Help?

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