Designing Social Interfaces

Designing Social Interfaces
Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience
By Christian Crumlish, Erin Malone

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. 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.

Publisher: O'Reilly Media / Yahoo Press
Released: September 2009
Pages: 520