Bernard Kerr is a Senior Interaction Designer at Yahoo! and is currently the lead designer of the social bookmarking service, Delicious. Prior to working at Yahoo!, he was a Strategic Designer at IBM Research where his research focused on designing advanced concept software applications and visualizations for collaboration. One of the significant projects he worked on while at IBM was "Remail", which centered on reinventing the email experience. This work has been published in various places, including the Infovis and CHI conferences.

Many visualizations have been designed to show the relationships between message threads in email and, more recently, an increasing number have been invented to show the relationships of tags in systems like the social networking site, Del.icio.us. The result is often an incomprehensible tangled network of lines and dots. Thread Arcs and Tag Orbitals take two very different approaches to these problems. This presentation will describe the development of both of these visualizations and the interesting design techniques used in their development.

14th November 5:30PM

Victoria University School of Design

139 Vivian Street

Lecture Theatre 2