B. O’REILLY®: Designing Social Interfaces
by Christian Crumlish, Erin Malone
Designing Social Interfaces, 2nd Edition
- Praise
- Preface
- Why We Updated This Book
- What This Book Is About
- The Visual Examples
- How This Book Is Organized
- Part I: What Are Social Patterns?
- Part II: I Am Somebody
- Part III: The Objects of Our Desire
- Part IV: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
- Part V: Closed and Open Social Networks
- Sidebar Essays
- Who Should Read This Book
- Using the Interaction Patterns
- What Comes with This Book
- How to Contact Us
- Safari® Books Online
- Acknowledgments
- I. What Are Social Patterns?
- 1. Mommy, What’s a Social User Experience Pattern?
- 2. Social to the Core
- II. I Am Somebody
- 3. You’re Invited!
- 4. Where’s the Rest of Me?
- 5. Here We Are Now
- 6. Would You Buy a Used Car from This Person?
- III. Objects of My Desire
- 7. Hunters Gather
- 8. Share and Share Alike
- 9. The Global Soapbox
- 10. Long-Time Listener, First-Time Caller
- 11. Watson, Come Quick!
- IV. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
- 12. Barnraising
- 13. Heard It Through the Grapevine
- 15. Good Cop, Bad Cop
- 16. Where in the World?
- V. But Wait...There’s More!
- A. About the Authors
- B. O’REILLY®: Designing Social Interfaces
- Index
- About the Authors
- Copyright
Appendix B. O’REILLY®: Designing Social Interfaces
Designers, developers, and entrepreneurs today must grapple with creating social interfaces to foster user interaction and community, but grasping the nuances and the building blocks of the digital social experience is much harder than it appears. Now you have help.
In the second edition of this practical guide, UX design experts Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone share hard-won insights into what works, what doesn’t, and why. With more than 100 patterns, design principles, and best practices, you’ll learn how to balance opposing forces and grow healthy online communities by co-creating the experience with your users.
Understand the overarching principles before applying tactical design patterns
Cultivate healthy participation and rein in misbehaving users
Learn patterns for adding social components to an existing site
Encourage users to interact with one another, whether it’s one-to-one or many-to-many
Use a rating system to build a social experience around products or services
Orchestrate collaborative groups and discover the real power of social networks
Explore numerous examples of each pattern, with an emphasis on mobile apps
Learn how to apply social design patterns to enterprise environments
Christian Crumlish is VP of Product at 7 Cups of Tea (7cups.com). He also served as director of product at CloudOn, director of messaging products at AIM, and curator of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library.
Erin Malone, Principal with Tangible UX, has over 20 years of experience leading design teams and developing social experiences for a host of startups and large enterprises. She’s the former director of the team that produced the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library.
“Designing Social Interfaces is a fantastic reference for people who want to find the right design patterns fast. If you need to understand how to connect your users to your product and to each other, this book is perfect for you.”
—Laura Klein author of UX for Lean Startups
“Chock-full of visual examples, Designing Social Interfaces is a smart and readable reference that will help you apply appropriate design patterns so you don’t waste time re-inventing the wheel.”
—Kate Rutter UX Instructor and Visual Thinking Consultant, Intelleto
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