Christine Boese » social media http://christineboese.net NYC-based Senior Information Architect, Interaction Designer & Social Media Strategist Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:24:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Spring 2008: Spec’ing ESPN.com Redesign: Winner of two 2009 Webby Awards: Sports Judges’ & People’s Choice http://christineboese.net/2008/08/espnredesign/ http://christineboese.net/2008/08/espnredesign/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:11:19 +0000 Chris Boese http://christineboese.net/?p=630 espnhome150x118espnhockey118x150espnvideofold118x150espnvideofold2150x118
espnyankees118x150espna-rodyankee118x150espnfantasybaseball150x118sportsnation2118x150
espnwomensbb150x118espncollegesports118x150espnsignin118x150espnmyespn118x150
espnthelife150x118espnradio118x150espnblogs118x150espnblogarticle118x150

Responsibilities: (Proposed UX/Creative redesign already complete when I joined the team); URL Remapping Master Document; Functional Specs for entire site (except premium content), including rules and interactions for all page/sport/community/personalization templates and modules. Sole author of about 200 pages of documentation for the proposed redesign, written in two months, April-May 2008.

]]> http://christineboese.net/2008/08/espnredesign/feed/ 0 Sample Article Template Wireframes [InDesign] http://christineboese.net/2008/04/sample-article-template-wireframes-indesign/ http://christineboese.net/2008/04/sample-article-template-wireframes-indesign/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:08:30 +0000 Chris Boese http://christineboese.net/?p=369

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]]> http://christineboese.net/2008/04/sample-commenting-template-wireframes-indesign/feed/ 0 Designing for Blog Publishing Projects http://christineboese.net/2007/01/blog-publishing-projects/ http://christineboese.net/2007/01/blog-publishing-projects/#comments Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:03:27 +0000 Chris Boese http://christineboese.net/?p=504 bottom-up social movement like in the Blogosphere is that the social structures provide an organic kind of direction and structure, and the social structure is the authority, not "industry leaders" or "futurists" or any other professional prognosticators striving for control or a first-mover advantage. Interactivity is about giving up control.]]> This is a visual snapshot into the kinds of blog-based publishing projects I design, build, and often, host. One got 2,500 hits in its first 48 hours online. Another was the top link on Sarah Palin’s wikipedia entry at the time she was announced as a vice presidential candidate. An Argentinian warblog has been published as a book. Others get very little traffic, because they are e-books, experimental hypertextual essays, or art projects I’m committed to maintaining as part of our common online Library of Everything. Others are simply labors of love, my own contribution to the “real.”

Not too long ago, someone asked me to predict where interactive media and the Internet would be five years from now. I refused to give an answer, because I don’t get to decide. The beauty of a grassroots, bottom-up social movement like in the Blogosphere is that the social structures provide an organic kind of direction and structure, and the social structure is the authority, not “industry leaders” or “futurists” or any other professional prognosticators striving for control or a first-mover advantage.

Interactivity is about giving up control.

What I strive to do as a designer and a participant in this grassroots social movement is to create tools that empower the most people with enough freedom to set their own directions. I’m not interested in herding cats. I am interested in watching and learning inductively from where cats go.

Atlanta Media Bloggers: 2006-2007

Atlanta Media Bloggers (launched 2006, now dormant)
Original artwork by Denny Lester.
Link: www.serendipit-e.com/mediabloggers

 Weston Productions

Weston Productions News site
(launched 2004, now dormant)
Link: www.serendipit-e.com/weston
spinning345

Spinning and Being Spun: The idea of journalism in a postmodern age (launched 2005, now dormant)
Link: www.serendipit-e.com/spinning

 serendipit-e3451

Serendipit-e, Inc. Communities and Tools for Active Learners
(launched 2000 in HTML, relaunched Typepad 2003, now dormant) Link: www.serendipit-e.com
mycnn345

my cnn: employee news intranet blog + alerts moblog
(in development 2006, now dormant).
no public access

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my cnn: employee news alerts moblog
(in development 2006, now dormant).
no public access
Bluestem Prairie:

A Bluestem Prairie: News from Minnesota’s First Congressional District (launched 2006, now one of most influential blogs in Minnesota) Link: www.bluestemprairie.com

 Traveling With Crows: 345

Traveling with Crows
(launched 2006)
Link: www.serendipit-e.com/traveling_with_crows
susan345

Memorial blog for Dr. Susan Barnes (launched 2006)
2,500 hits in 1st 48 hours online, following global time zones starting in NZ/Australia within hours of launch
Link: www.serendipit-e.com/drsusanbarnes

 whitehead345

Memorial blog for James Tillotson Whitehead
(launched 2003, featured as virtual memorial to accompany academic conference memorials)
Link: www.serendipit-e.com/whitehead
josh345

Joshua Kucera: Freelance Writer and Int’l Journalist
(launched 2003 as The Other Side)
Link: www.joshuakucera.net/

 hilltown345

Hilltown Farmland Preservation: Information and Discussion about Farmland Preservation in Hilltown Township, PA (launched 2006) Link: www.hilltownfarmlandpreservation.org
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Serendipit-e, Inc. Research Archive & Portfolio (launched 2003) Link: www.serendipit-e.com/boeseportfolio

 chrisboeseweblog3451

Chris Boese’s Weblog (launched 2002)
Link: www.serendipit-e.com/blog
hollow345

Headpiece Filled With Straw (poetry journal)
Link: www.serendipit-e.com/hollow

 darkroomglories345

Darkroom Glories Poetry Manuscript
Link: www.serendipit-e.com/poems
wetwild345

Project Wet and Wild (award-winning hypertext essay)
Link: www.serendipit-e.com/wetwild

 wu345

are you with me, dr. wu? (steely dan/jazz fan blog)
Link: www.serendipit-e.com/wu
]]> http://christineboese.net/2007/01/blog-publishing-projects/feed/ 0 Interface Design and Mental Models for Doctoral Dissertation: First “Born Digital” dissertation to be accepted in U.S.: 1998 http://christineboese.net/1998/07/interface-design-mental-models/ http://christineboese.net/1998/07/interface-design-mental-models/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 1998 00:00:00 +0000 Chris Boese http://christineboese.net/?p=340 Click to view larger image of dissertation interface design schema

Click to view larger image of dissertation interface design schema

Click to view PDF of Dissertation Site Flow

Click to view PDF of Dissertation Site Flow

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