Pleasure and Pain

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Facebook Privacy Settings Redesign on Fortune.com

May 28th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Articles, Design

Last week, Fortune.com (CNNMoney.com) published an article and screenshot gallery titled Hey Facebook! Here’s your privacy redesign, and I was fortunate enough to have my work included in it.

Reporter JP Mangalindan reached out to me a few weeks ago and asked me to mock up a couple ideas for how Facebook could redesign its complicated [...]

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UPDATE: Facebook at fault for unauthorized link with Twitter account

July 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Pain, Twitter, User Experience

Last night there was a minor fiasco when hundreds of thousands of people suddenly found that their tweets were being published to their Facebook status without their explicit authorization. The only way to fix the problem was to remove or block the Twitter application from within Facebook.

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Twitter updating Facebook status without permission

July 29th, 2009 · 14 Comments · Pain, Twitter, User Experience

Update: For the latest information, please read UPDATE: Facebook at fault for unauthorized link with Twitter account.
[If Facebook suddenly started publishing your tweets, go into Facebook and REMOVE or BLOCK the Twitter application. That's currently the only fix.]
Just an hour ago, I got a notification that someone had commented on my Facebook status so I [...]

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Interviewed for “Facebook, Google, and the data design disaster”

March 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Articles, User Experience

Big thanks to Caroline McCarthy for interviewing me for her latest CNET article, “Facebook, Google, and the data design disaster” featured in her column The Social.
Caroline asked me what I thought of the new Facebook homepage redesign, as well as Google’s apparent obsession with data (above good design, as exposed by designer Douglas Bowman in [...]

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Upcoming Posts

July 18th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Blogging

Just to whet your appetite, here are some posts I’ll be writing in the next week:

The new look of Facebook profiles
10 worthwhile Twitter bots
Thank you letters
Please don’t stalk me (geosocial networking)

If you have any thoughts or questions about these topics that you’d like to see addressed, just leave a comment and I’ll do my best [...]

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