Better social media engagement through user experience and social practices
This post is inspired by today’s excellent reflection On the thoughtful use of points in social systems by Adin Levin of Socialtext. Adina summarizes a twitter conversation that unfolded yesterday among “Kevin Marks, Tom Coates,
Interaction design works, in part, because it is able to anticipate user behaviors. Design theory models interactions: with products or services and their features, functions, interface, and so on. And if we’re reasonably competent and
I consider social media to be talk technologies, and I’ve been suspecting of late that the debate around “transparency” is a debate about communication. I say this only because transparency is sometimes used to describe
Just a short post, friends, to rant a bit about a couple social media research posts I’ve just come across. As invaluable good research is on the uses and implications of social media, I’m sometimes
There’s been an interesting conversation underway on IxDA about design and influence. The original post on Johnnyholland also has a few tasty comments. My own take on issue of whether or not designers should be
Interesting article about Aardvark in the New York Times over the weekend. InNow All Your Friends Are in the Answer Business, author Randall Stross covers a few “answer businesses” alongside Aardvark’s recently public IM service.