3 Kinds of Free, originally uploaded by armanz.
3 Kinds of Free
anatomy of a leaderboard
anatomy of a leaderboard, originally uploaded by Box and Arrow.
Why community is hard
Community is hard, and so is pretty much all social stuff. But why is so darn hard? Why […]
Size Matters
early draft of a section from 2nd edition of blueprints We all would like to think there was […]
When tags work and when they don’t: Amazon and LibraryThing
Thingology (LibraryThing’s ideas blog): Both LibraryThing and Amazon allow users to tag books. But with a tiny fraction […]
A Pattern Language (for Social Media): Common Areas at the Heart
More rereading of Alexander: 129 Common Areas at the Heart Conflict No social group- whether a family, a […]
A Pattern Language: Degrees of Publicness
I picked up A Pattern Language again and I had a bookmark on this pattern 36. Degrees of […]
Researching Search
more outtakes from the 2nd edition of Blueprints, most likely destined for the long anticipated yet never begun […]
Ten Observations About Search Interfaces
These observations are just that, observations. Not rules or laws. If it looks more like a rule than […]
Designers and Doctors
Several years back, John Zapolski urged all the members of my design team to read Atul Gawnde’s essay […]