Social interfaces are the way a system facilitates social behaviour between users.
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Improving the UX of Clippy
Some 10 years ago, Microsoft tried to introduce a personal assistant for his Office suite, Clippy, in order to help their users discover new features. Even if there seem to be people that like it (MS ...
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How to best indicate navigation menu on mobile
What's the best way to indicate the navigation menu on mobile?
I see this three-bar icon being used a lot but do users really understand what it means?
Wouldn't a button simply saying "Navigation" ...
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How to leverage team effects in HCI?
Humans and Computers can act as if they were a team.
Clifford Nass shows in his experiments that even though we would deny it, we treat computers as little humans ("social actors"). In his chapter ...
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Why use a 3-column layout like StackExchange, Facebook and YouTube?
Why do sites like StackExchange, Facebook and YouTube center their content and reduce its width? As opposed to sites like Reddit that go full width.
Are they trying to spare the user from too much ...
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How to indicate the word “interesting” with an icon? [closed]
In the project I am currently working on everything is based around the essence of "interests". One of the most important and bold UI elements in this project, is a button that when pressed gives us ...
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Showing facebook profile picture to show logged in user
Let's say you login on a web shop using a facebook connect button.
Do you think it is good practice for the site to retrieve your profile pic and display it just by your login name?
I wonder if it ...
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Are breadcrumbs still in?
Despite NNGroup's praise, I notice none of the big players (StackExchange, Facebook, Google, YouTube) use breadcrumbs. None of the big ecommerce players either. Why is this?
Possible guesses:
Users ...
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do I need to show the post inline after a person posts?
We have a site with a feed of activities people are doing and others can reply to those activities. The current design has a place for replying in the feed but we don't want to show other replies ...
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What should we do with external links on a Reddit-like social news site?
Basically, we are working on a site that is similar to Reddit (but not exactly a clone). Users are able to post images, links and text posts (what Reddit calls "self posts") and we believe links will ...
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How do people use Google+ circles?
What's the most frequent mental model? Do people use circles to:
categorize people ("friends", "collegues", "family"?
or to
define interests ("bicycle", "cooking", "politics")?
The question is ...
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Upon the launch of a new site - add big slide-down / lightbox explanation?
Upon the launch of say a new social media site - is it appropriate to do a big slide-down / lightbox to explain what the site is about - or to let users figure things out for themselves?
Former:
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Sort by recent / popular: Use tabs or buttons?
I need to sort my content by recent and most popular. I see Reddit uses tabs, but unfortunately tabs won't fit into my layout.
Would I be breaking any UX principles by using buttons?
This question ...
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How can we call the UI discussion pattern on Google+ or Facebook? Is it a chat?
Look at this screenshot of a typical interaction on Google+:
How can we call it?
Is it a chat?
Is it a blogpost with comments?
Is it a Q&A?
What's the proper name?
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Is there an alternative to the standard comment stream below blog posts?
We have seen it a million times, the standard comment stream below the blog post / article. But there are alternative options out there. I'm thinking soundcloud ...
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3answers
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Advantages of integrating chat and messages
The web app I'm working on (a social network) allows users to chat and send each other messages. This is not the main focus of the app, but it will be used quite a lot (these conversation need to be ...
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1answer
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Advice on great examples of social networking design ( profiles / search / my profile )? [closed]
I'm looking for some good examples of social networking based websites that have great designs:
What to make the homepage
Browsing users
Showing profiles
Searching for users or information
Search ...
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What's the best interaction model between people with the same interest? Q&A, Google+, Facebook, forum, chat…? [closed]
I think that "community powered Q&A" (like this site) is a good interaction model for people connected by the same interest. But other people are sure that Google+ is the best interaction pattern ...
