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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: New Riders; 1 edition (8 May 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0321534921
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321534927
  • Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 17.4 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 93,381 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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No matter what type of web site or application you’re building, social interaction among the people who use it will be key to its success. They will talk about it, invite their friends, complain, sing its high praises, and dissect it in countless ways. With the right design strategy you can use this social interaction to get people signing up, coming back regularly, and bringing others into the fold. With tons of examples from real-world interfaces and a touch of the underlying social psychology theory, Joshua Porter shows you how to design your next great social web application.

Inside, you’ll discover:
• The real reasons why people participate online and the psychology behind them
• The Usage Lifecycle—or how people use your web application over time
• How to get people past that trickiest of hurdles: sign-up
• What to do when you’ve launched a web application and nobody is using it
• How to analyze the effectiveness of your application screens and flows
• How to grow your social web application from zero users to 1000—and beyond

Designing for the social web is about much more than adding features. It’s about embracing the social interaction of the people who make you successful—and then designing smartly to encourage it.


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No matter what type of web site or application you’re building, social interaction among the people who use it will be key to its success. They will talk about it, invite their friends, complain, sing its high praises, and dissect it in countless ways. With the right design strategy you can use this social interaction to get people signing up, coming back regularly, and bringing others into the fold. With tons of examples from real-world interfaces and a touch of the underlying social psychology theory, Joshua Porter shows you how to design your next great social web application.

Inside, you’ll discover:
• The real reasons why people participate online and the psychology behind them
• The Usage Lifecycle—or how people use your web application over time
• How to get people past that trickiest of hurdles: sign-up
• What to do when you’ve launched a web application and nobody is using it
• How to analyze the effectiveness of your application screens and flows
• How to grow your social web application from zero users to 1000—and beyond

Designing for the social web is about much more than adding features. It’s about embracing the social interaction of the people who make you successful—and then designing smartly to encourage it.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable , 27 May 2008
By Mr. B. Lavender "Ben Lavender" (Oxford, UK) - See all my reviews
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I attended Joshua Porter excellent panel session, 'Social Design Strategies', at SXSW 2008 and was keen to read his book. The book does not disappoint. The title is misleading it's about more than just social networking; and this is a good thing. For example, there's some excellent stuff on how to design a good sign-up process and how to respond to customers on service failures. Joshua details a hierachy covering different levels of customer engagement and how to move them up the value chain. All in all brilliant.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Brilliant Guide to Building a Successful Social Website, 13 Jul 2009
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This book is almost like a blueprint for designing and building a successful 2.0 website. It takes you through the stages of user adoption and the boxes you have to tick to build a community of passionate regular users through to design principles you should use to maximise the number of people trying, adopting and hyping up your site.

If you're designing a social website or building an online community, the sooner you get this book the better!
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5.0 out of 5 stars More than just a design book, 14 Feb 2009
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If you want to learn how to create relationships with your users rather than have them visit and leave, then read this book. It's not just a design book and it's not just a social media book.

It is well written and you can easily skip to the bits that concern you. Porter explains social media in a way that few people manage to do as simply.
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