From the creators of Yahoo!'s Design Pattern Library, Designing Social Interfaces provides you with more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, along with salient advice for many of the common challenges you'll face when starting a social website. Designing sites that foster user interaction and community-building is a valuable skill for web developers and designers today, but it's not that easy to understand the nuances of the social web. Now you have help. Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone share hard-won insights into what works, what doesn't, and why. You'll learn how to balance opposing factions and grow healthy online communities by co-creating them with your users.

• Understand the overarching principles you need to consider for every website you create

• Learn basic design patterns for adding social components to an existing site

• Rein in misbehaving users on an active community site

• Build a social experience around a product or service and invite people to join

• Develop a social utility without having to build an entirely new infrastructure

• Enable users of your site's content to interact with one another

• Offer your members the opportunity to connect in the real world

• Learn to recognize and avoid antipatterns: emergent bad practices in the social network and social media space

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An Excellent Pattern-based Approach To Designing Social Web Applications - 2009-11-02
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This excellent handbook of Patterns for Designing Interfaces for The Social Web and Mobile Applications contains extremely valuable examples of superior Interface Components and Approaches to designing for the Social Web. If you are already in the process of designing a Social Web Application or Mobile Interface to that Application this book definitely will guide your selection of content for that Software Tool or Widget. As a beginner in the design of Interfaces involving Social or Collaborative Content I could have benefited from a more step-by-step guide to determining the goals and constraints of a Social Application prior to choosing the Patterns which will enable an excellent user interface. This guidebook to Social Web and Mobile Interface Patterns will become the Standard Excellent Reference Work for Web Design Studios executing Social Applications. If on the other hand you require (like myself) a functional guide to the steps in defining and constructing a site and a taxonomy of possible goals and constraints for your design project, this reference work may be a bit more advanced than would suit those familiarization goals.

--Ira Laefsky

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