Introduction

Gravity7 is the home of social interaction designer Adrian Chan. Social interaction design is the design of social media. It combines user interface design, user experience design, and interaction design with a focus on the social practices that make social media successful. I have a set of interaction frameworks that apply to a variety of online social practices, their business models, and requirements for success. These are user-centric models of social interaction that account for what users do, what interests and motivates them, keeps their attention or sustains participation, organizes their relationships, activities, and more.

Quick links

Social Interaction Design

• Provides an overview of social interaction design, with sidebar links to related blog posts, white papers, and research
• Slideshow presentations on What is Social Interaction Design, User Psychology, and more

Writings

• Blogs offers a table of contents to blogs and blog posts on social software and web 2.0, film, and more
• White Papers provides links to white papers written on social interaction design
• Reading Notes contains drafts of notes kept while reading sociology, systems theory, media theory, communication and psychology for their relevance to social interaction design