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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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08.19.10The strange culture of social technology, and its makersIn the past months I have been systematically scoping out social media businesses, startups, services, agencies, and more. It’s what us “freelancers” do &emdash; especially now that the industry has matured. I have a filemaker database of more than 650 companies worth tracking. Along with notes, and various other sundry details. If I were to rush my way through the database, read company descriptions provided by founders, reviews gleaned from techcrunch, killerstartups.com, etc, I would come away with the impression that these were almost all technology companies. That’s the common narrative arc, the identity by so many efforts in this space. ...
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11.26.09Strategic Social Design & SxD. Some humble thoughts.(caveat emptor: This is just a draft of thoughts I ran together this morning about some thinking I have been doing. I published it in the blog just to force me to tend to it, edit it, and gain feedback while I think through some of the issues that have been vexing me about designing [...]
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About Me
CIO at Shine Lawyers
Non-exec Director of Ozmota
Non-exec Director of Queensland Kids
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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