UIEtips 6/14/07: Common Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications and How to Avoid Them UIE’s Joshua Porter outlines 4 of the most prevalent mistakes designers make when creating social web applications, and explains how to avoid making them yourself.

The Josh and Jared Show: Episode #2

The second episode of the Josh and Jared Show, where Joshua Porter and Jared Spool get together and discuss the interesting happenings in the world of experience design. This week: MySpace, Life Stages, Virb, Twitter, social design field research, and more.

UIEtips 5/08/07: Why Invest in Social Features for Your Web Site? Joshua Porter investigates the trend to design socially-enabled web applications, and examines the core benefits of investing in social features that apply broadly across many areas on your web site.

This is part of a series on the topic of social design, a follow-up to the virtual seminar we held on April 11, 2007 called Social Design: Designing for the Social Lives of Users. To follow along, grab the Brain Sparks feed or subscribe to our free email newsletter, UIEtips. Virtual Seminar attendee Paul Baker [...]

This is the first in a multi-part series on the topic of social design, a follow-up to the virtual seminar we held on April 11, 2007 called Social Design: Designing for the Social Lives of Users. To follow along, grab the Brain Sparks feed or subscribe to our free email newsletter, UIEtips. The runaway successes [...]

Every day now it seems that another web site “Goes Social”, which means they add social features like those found on social networking sites MySpace, Facebook, and Digg. The latest example is the national news site USAToday, which recently redesigned and added several social features including the ability to comment on stories, rate stories, and [...]