Publisher: O'Reilly Media / Yahoo Press Released: September 2009 Pages: 520
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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- Title:
- Designing Social Interfaces
- By:
- Christian Crumlish, Erin Malone
- Publisher:
- O'Reilly Media / Yahoo Press
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- Print
- Ebook
- Safari Books Online
- Print:
- September 2009
- Ebook:
- September 2009
- Pages:
- 520
- Print ISBN:
- 978-0-596-15492-9
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- 0-596-15492-5
- Ebook ISBN:
- 978-0-596-80612-5
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- 0-596-80612-4
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Christian Crumlish Christian Crumlish is the curator of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library and has been designing and writing about online user experiences since 1994. He is a director of the Information Architecture Institute and co-chair of the monthly BayCHI program.
He is the author of The Power of Many and is writing a book called Designing Social Interfaces for O'Reilly Media with Erin Malone. He studied philosophy at Princeton and painting at the San Francisco School of Art, and lives in Oakland, California, with his wife, Briggs, and his cat, Fraidy. View Christian Crumlish's full profile page. -
Erin Malone Erin Malone is Principal with Tangible UX, and has over 20 years of experience leading design teams and developing social experiences as well as web and software applications and system-wide solutions. Prior to Tangible, she spent 4 years at Yahoo! leading the Platform User Experience Design team where they were responsible for building the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library and for providing design expertise to the popular YUI (Yahoo! User Interface Library). Additionally, Erin led the redesign of the Yahoo! Developer Network, oversaw the redesign of Yahoo!'s registration system, developed the ux team's intranet and worked on other cross-company initiatives.
Before Yahoo!, she was a Design Director at AOL, Creative Director at AltaVista, and chief Information Architect for Zip2. Erin was the founding editor-in-chief of Boxes and Arrows and is the author of several articles on interaction design history, design management, and is a founding member of the IA Institute. She is currently working on the book Designing Social Interfaces with Christian Crumlish for O'Reilly Media. View Erin Malone's full profile page. |
Colophon The image on the cover of Designing Social Interfaces is a king bird of paradise (Cicinnurus regius). Members of the Paradisaeidae family, these small passerine birds can be found on the New Guinea mainland and on the surrounding islands of Aru, Missol, Salawati, and Yapen. They inhabit lowland rainforests and build their nests in tree cavities. Their diet consists of fruit and insects.
The smallest and most vividly colored of the birds of paradise, the king bird of paradise has been called a "living gem." Males are a brilliant red with a white underside, a green band across the chest, and a black spot above each eye. They are further distinguished by two long, wirelike tailfeather shafts tipped with a swirl of emerald-green feathers. By contrast, females are a subdued shade of olive or brown with a buff-colored chest. Both sexes have blue legs and feet and are on average six to seven inches long (not including the males' tailfeathers, which can be as long as their bodies).
The colorful feathers of birds of paradise were popular in women's fashion over a century ago, and in fact, their population was almost decimated in the late 1800s due to the practice of using the feathers to decorate women's hats. As many as 50,000 skins were exported each year until the 1920s, when exportation of the birds out of New Guinea was prohibited. Although the skins and feathers of male king birds of paradise are still sometimes used by native New Guineans in their dress and rituals, the species is abundant and no longer at risk of extinction. |
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2/24/2011 (0 of 1 customers found this review helpful) 3.0Best used as a reference book By Tom O from Baltimore, MD About Me Designer, Developer - Concise
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6/17/2010 (0 of 1 customers found this review helpful) By twilliams from Dallas, TX About Me Designer, Developer, User experience - Not comprehensive enough
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