I am a Senior Design Researcher, working with a User Experience Consulting Company. I work as an User Researcher for Design research Projects and also as Usability analyst. So reading Gentry’s post on Core77 made me realize what unique possibilities arise due to the background of ethnographic research + interaction design.

I am here to learn from others and possibly also contribute to the community.

You took an interesting approach to know your readership. It will be interesting to know if the commenters match the 1-9-90 pattern.

However, I’m an Hybrid Interaction Designer, since my passion is designing with a cross-disciplinary approach: design, psychology and technology (with an eye on simplicity and complexity tao).

Your article on Core77 was linked to me by my peers since I’m working on a very similar theme too: I’m developing with a friend a social interaction design methodology, called “MoDe, Motivational Design” since its core value is motivation.

You can read a synthesis here: http://j.mp/1erQRq

It was an especially interesting read for me as I have a socialogy background and love to hear that it is considered valuable knowledge! I have been aiming to write my thesis with sociology theory in mind and combine it with social media or possibly another communications related topic. The article was a great inspiration!

I’m interested, kind of like MikeTW above, in people and communities. I enjoy technology but am really interested in it to the extent that it enhances the richness of life for people and communities.

I’m interested in the design and utilisation of social software systems, particularly in attempts to nudge people towards desirable social policy goals (e.g. being better parents or improving take-up of benefits already offered by the government).

I’m also a practising psychotherapist, and so am interested in the psychology and sociology of social software.

So this seemed like a good lunchtime research place to pick up on ideas and keep abreast. No pressure.

Rob

My name is Paige Saez and I am a social interaction designer at Makerlab.com and strategic planner at Weiden and Kennedy. My background is in relational aesthetics, conceptual art and architecture. I have been working in social media for the last five years. I have been a community manager, visual designer, interaction designer, information architect, user researcher, straight-up market researcher and planner. My big statement? I am fascinated by the social space between people, the construction and deconstruction of social architecture. That sounds so dry, but its really very fascinating and an exciting space.
I try not to discriminate between online and off. I am particularly interested in the role of play, game theory, identity construction, the remediation of modes and behaviors of these kinds of design problems tackle.

I am impressed by the interests of the people who commented on this post! I hope we can find a way to keep a dialogue going as a group. Thanks Gentry for establishing this platform for conversation!

I work at as an interaction and interface designer in France at Use Design. Recently, we’ve started to work on social applications and I’m really enthusiastic to share insights thanks to this website.

BTW, really nice post on core77 Gentry.

Social design is in many ways becoming a focal melting pot for the separate design fields as they each expand their knowledge towards the future.