Erin Malone

Erin Malone is an author, design historian, educator and a recently paused senior level user experience designer and researcher who has spent her career deconstructing complex systems, designing web and software applications, social experiences and leading experience design teams. Most recently she worked with the Center for Technology and Society at the Anti Defamation League on a variety of projects including the ADL Social Pattern Library and tools to help educate constituents about the ecosystem of hate in online spaces.

She is the co-author of both editions of the book Designing Social Interfaces for O'Reilly Media

And author of the new book from MIT Press, In Through the Side Door: Fifty Years of Women in Interaction Design, out in October 2024. In her spare time she is a printmaker and letterpress printer at 8 Paw Press.

Erin holds an MFA in New Media and Graphic Design from Rochester Institute of Technology and a BFA in Graphic Design from East Carolina University’s School of Art.