You’ve been there before. You thought you could trust someone with a secret. You thought it would be safe, but found out later that they blabbed to everyone. Or, maybe they didn’t share it, but the way they used it
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Category: Social UX
Designing for Meaningful Social Interactions
The age of cheap “like”-hunting needs to come to an end. It all started innocently enough with likes and tweets. Then in a few years, we suddenly ended up with governments scoring people and masses manipulated into meaningless activities to
Continue readingSecond-hand UX
Something that I feel is overlooked by a lot of product designers is the second-hand experience of their product. That is to say, above and beyond the target user, who is affected by the product—and most importantly—what is their experience?
Continue readingResearching User Experience: A Knowledge Ecology Model
When we think of learning environments, we think of books, lectures, databases perhaps. But in my recent research, I discovered that the interactions we have with people in our networks play an even more important role in what we learn
Continue readingDesigning for Social Interaction
People increasingly use the web to get the information they need from each other, increasing the importance of social web design in the designer’s skill set. Paul Adams describes some basics about human relationships and key behaviors that impact our designs.
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