Today's Resource: Designing for Social Traction

http://vospe.com/2010/09/07/todays-resource-designing-for-social-traction/

by cartab • 16 years ago

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234523421• 16 years ago

good.

aleja• 16 years ago

Interesting article, keep it up!

rblion• 16 years ago

Quality information and easily digestible. More stuff like this would be greatly appreciated.

Revisor• 16 years ago

I was daunted by the 120 slides at first, but they were absolutely worth it.

To sum up a few points: Use lazy registration (delayed to as late as possible), first-time user help, gradual profile filling. Remove features that encourage mindless hoarding (of points, ratings, reviews, whatever) and design for the flow, ie help the user improve/learn new things but don't make the experience too challenging.

bmelton• 16 years ago

First, I recommend viewing the slides on slideshare proper (http://www.slideshare.net/bokardo/designing-for-social-tract...). Some of the slides were hard to read for me on the smaller embed.

Secondly, wow. This is a seriously worthwhile click. I'm only about halfway through it, so there's still time for it to go downhill I suppose, but while some of the tips are more commonplace (delay registration as long as you can), others were downright insightful (Instead of asking "Can people fill out our sign-up form?" Ask "Are people motivated to care?").

It's long, so save it for later if you're in a hurry, but I recommend against skipping it altogether.

Today's Resource: Designing for Social Traction

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