The vital story of how women designers and researchers pioneered the field of interaction and user experience design for software and digital interfaces. Framed against the backdrop of contemporary waves of feminism and the history of computing design, In through the Side Door foregrounds the stories of the women working in the field of computing and the emergent discipline of interaction design as the graphical user interface was developed. Erin Malone begins with a handful of pioneers who brought to the field various methods from a variety of backgrounds including design, technical communication, social psychology, ethnography, information science, and mechanical engineering. Moving into the early days of desktop computing, the book highlights the women on the teams inventing contemporary desktop computer interfaces and related tools, including those at Xerox PARC, Apple's Human Interface Group, and Microsoft. Malone takes the reader through the invention of the World Wide Web, the third wave of feminism, and the dot-com boom and bust. Coming up to contemporary times, the book features women working on the web, designing equipment interfaces, and working in voice UX, mobile design, and civic design, and continues with the up-and-coming leaders driving social impact, changing human-centered design and research, and working to be accountable for the harms of contemporary software products. Along the way, the author also touches on the challenges and biases women have faced in the workplace and continue to encounter despite cultural and sociological advancements.

In through the Side Door: Fifty Years of Women in Interaction Design

Literature & Fiction

Malone, Erin

History & Criticism

The MIT Press

From the creators of Yahoo!'s Design Pattern Library, Designing Social Interfaces provides you with more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, along with salient advice for many of the common challenges you'll face when starting a social website. Designing sites that foster user interaction and community-building is a valuable skill for web developers and designers today, but it's not that easy to understand the nuances of the social web. Now you have help. Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone share hard-won insights into what works, what doesn't, and why. You'll learn how to balance opposing factions and grow healthy online communities by co-creating them with your users.
<ul>
<li>Understand the overarching principles you need to consider for every website you create</li>
<li>Learn basic design patterns for adding social components to an existing site</li>
<li>Rein in misbehaving users on an active community site</li>
<li>Build a social experience around a product or service and invite people to join</li>
<li>Develop a social utility without having to build an entirely new infrastructure</li>
<li>Enable users of your site's content to interact with one another</li>
<li>Offer your members the opportunity to connect in the real world</li>
<li>Learn to recognize and avoid antipatterns: emergent bad practices in the social network and social media space</li>
</ul>

Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience

Computers & Technology

Crumlish, Christian

Web Development & Design

Yahoo Press

Plays and Poems with the Corrections and Illus by Various Commentators Comprehending a Life

Shakespeare., William

History

BiblioLife

Designers, developers, and entrepreneurs today must grapple with creating social interfaces to foster user interaction and community, but grasping the nuances and the building blocks of the digital social experience is much harder than it appears. Now you have help.
In the second edition of this practical guide, UX design experts Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone share hard-won insights into what works, what doesn’t, and why. With more than 100 patterns, design principles, and best practices, you’ll learn how to balance opposing forces and grow healthy online communities by co-creating the experience with your users.
<ul>
<li>Understand the overarching principles before applying tactical design patterns</li>
<li>Cultivate healthy participation and rein in misbehaving users</li>
<li>Learn patterns for adding social components to an existing site</li>
<li>Encourage users to interact with one another, whether it’s one-to-one or many-to-many</li>
<li>Use a rating system to build a social experience around products or services</li>
<li>Orchestrate collaborative groups and discover the real power of social networks</li>
<li>Explore numerous examples of each pattern, with an emphasis on mobile apps</li>
<li>Learn how to apply social design patterns to enterprise environments</li>
</ul>

O'Reilly Media

Poetry. Winner of the Patricia Bibby First Book Prize, 2013, judged by Ralph Angel. "Erin Malone writes poems of separation and deep longing for the Other—brother, son, husband, yes—but most importantly, the dislocated self. Tied by the binds of convention, this bound self twists against the ropes around her wrists, not so much to free herself, but to better feel the burns they make there when she does. In careful (read: care- filled) scalpel-precise lines, we hear a voice compelled to speak out in what Allan Grossman calls 'the language of last resort.' Reader, this is just the beginning."—Kary Wayson "I simply love Erin Malone's HOVER—its perfection of phrase, its sheer lucidity, its open heart. There are real hauntings and anxieties here, often of the most excruciating, heart-wrenching variety, but somehow the book leaves me in the mood of a crisp, clear morning on which one feels amazed to be alive. 'It's taken me this long to become human,' Malone writes; taken together, the poems in HOVER convey that earned, admirable sense of humanness, in language that shines."—Maggie Nelson "Erin Malone's poems drop flares into the dark sea of new motherhood, illuminating the silvered leap of a mind mid-flight, a mind at times unmade: the mind of making. Wildly precise and sharply beautiful, these poems detonate inside the most unlikely containers: studies of dead languages, incandescent bulbs, fables, terrariums, 'an alphabet of crows.' Subterranean, aerial, quick-turning and generous, the line she casts is a thrilling one to catch hold of."—Megan Snyder-Camp "The poems in HOVER deftly explore the worlds of loss and personal dislocation. Malone's principal technique is compression, and the music that results from her carefully-considered, chiseled lines is crystalline. HOVER is a rewarding, emotionally resonant debut collection."—Linda Bierds

Hover

Poetry

Small Press Distribution

Site of Disappearance

Ornithopter Press

A Guide to Maps & Models for UX Designers

Computer Science

8 Paw Press

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