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SxD Theory
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09.10.10Social interaction design 101The design of social media tools and services is a bit of an art, and a tricky one at that. Where design methodologies exist, they compete with business requirements and a rapidly changing landscape. Where business goals exist, they, too, must adapt to a marketplace rife with competition. Where best practices exist, use of them in new contexts and tools relies as much on trial and error as it does a well-conceived social design plan. And where engineering solutions exist, they tend to reflect only cursory appreciation of distinctly individual user habits and social practices. Negotiating these complex and often ...
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09.10.10Social interaction design 101The design of social media tools and services is a bit of an art, and a tricky one at that. Where design methodologies exist, they compete with business requirements and a rapidly changing landscape. Where business goals exist, they, too, must adapt to a marketplace rife with competition. Where best practices exist, use of them in new contexts and tools relies as much on trial and error as it does a well-conceived social design plan. And where engineering solutions exist, they tend to reflect only cursory appreciation of distinctly individual user habits and social practices. Negotiating these complex and often ...
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08.20.10Beyond user behavior: designing socialI’d like to mediate briefly on a topic that’s also a recurring interest of mine — and one relevant to social interaction design. It’s the matter of user behavior. It circulates now and then within the design community, and when it does, it seems to crash like a rogue asteroid tumbling through a beltway of unhinged rocks and streaking stars. This occurs, I think, because in matters of behavior, there are two fundamentally opposed views. Those from the perspective of intention, motive, agency, and other user-centric explanations of behavior-as-activity. And those from the perspective of behavior as response, reaction, informed ...
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08.18.10Social commerceThe curious case of social commerce is upon us. And it raises interesting questions for the social interaction designer. I will here allow some of these to beg and grovel. If you have been a reader of mine in the past, you will know that I believe that in social media, interactions take place among and between users. That the software serving as a mediating architecture is just that. It may constrain and enable interactions, but does so by means only of structuring interactions and content onscreen(s) and over time. In order to get at the gist of social commerce, we need ...
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About Me
CIO at Shine Lawyers
Non-exec Director of Ozmota
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Ex CIO/CTO of Ozmota, Benefon and Voxson.Education
Executive MBA from QUT
High Distinction average
Singapore Airlines International Business Award
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Computer Science from QUT
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