designing features of social media sites or features integrating with social media sites
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What is the best approach to design registration page
I have seen users (including me) who get frustrating registration page and eventually decide to quit the site. (To be frank few of my friends left registration due to annoying captca verification) As ...
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Are users more likely to sign up with social login? [duplicate]
These days social login (via Facebook, Google, Yahoo, etc.) is becoming more and more popular. But it has problems: some users are reluctant to link their accounts on different sites to each other, ...
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How to visualize sentiment analysis of social media (ex: tweets)?
I'm trying to research potential ideas for visualizing sentiment analysis - specifically sentiment analysis of Tweets about a subject. I have some data and have bucketed the tweets into three buckets ...
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Should we still provide social sharing options in a responsive design?
Since the majority of the browsers on small devices (and Safari on desktop as well) already provide a function where the user can share the content on—for example—Twitter, should we still ...
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How many social buttons?
There are millions of social networks out there. Of the top popular ones, like Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc.,
Q: How many, in numbers, should be put up at all?
UPDATE: Organization ...
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Does Facebook use their UX for social engineering? [closed]
I've always wondered if Facebook's UX design is based partly on social engineering.
It's very easy to submit a comment that you might later regret. Pressing the enter key immediately posts your ...
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Should Social Media Icons Hold Present Color Value? [duplicate]
When designing a website should social media icons keep their established color value or can they be restyled to associate with your website's theme?
Can changing the icon colors impact the user?
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“By posting this, you agree to our terms and conditions”
Is it okay to have a "By posting this, you agree to our terms and conditions" (i.e. like 4chan) as opposed to a "I agree to the terms and conditions" checkbox?
I read about automatic agreement to ...
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Changing Colour of Social Media buttons to match Colour Palette
I'm interested in getting opinions on changing the colour of social media buttons (facebook/twitter/linkedin sign-up and login as well as sharing) to better fit in with the colour pallet of our ...
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Places Icons similar like Yelp [closed]
Hi i am wondering where can i find places icons similar like this:
These are places icons such as local business, shopping, food and etc. I am looking for commercial or free versions. Thanks
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Is there an elegant way of sharing content that's already in a lightbox?
I'm working on a site that has a lightbox to showcase some content (yes, it needs to be a lightbox, for reasons I won't go into here).
The client wants to give users the option to share content ...
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'Liking' Sensitive Events on Social Media: Contextual Icons and Words for Approval/Agreement
Prompted by recent events. The use of a Like icon (whether thumbs up or otherwise) is fine on social media for lots of things, but certain subjects and events should not be "liked" or use such a ...
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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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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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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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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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Should I style my buttons?
Are there any major advantages / disadvantages in styling ones buttons like Facebook, Twitter and StackExchange - vs. not styling them like Craigslist and 4chan?
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Would adding horizontal scrolling to Facebook profiles be a good idea?
I saw these designs by Fred Nerby. He proposed adding horizontal scrolling to Facebook profiles. Is this good UI?
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integrating a social-network application into existing app from a UX point of view
We had a web app that acts as a travel portal for consumers - tours, hotels, attractions and so forth. It has recently been decided that a facebook-type platform be integrated as well.
I am ...
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Best UX practice for top level category page social sharing buttons for posts
In trying to test an implementation of top page sharing widgets for individual posts, I'm able to see TechCrunch implement something similar, but with a 2-stage process, where user must hover over the ...
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Use of Twitter Conversation Box
I'm designing the wires for an event page, with a phased approach. Phase 1 only includes registration and information, prior to the speakers being announced etc. In past years they have used a twitter ...
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Sharing Links on Facebook with Multi-Language Site?
We're trying to decide what the best course of action, and have two opposite opinions on this.
We have a multi-language site (currently with English and German only).
When a user shares a link to ...
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Why are most social media web forms on the right hand side of the page now?
I am doing research into social media sites, and one thing I have noticed is that most of the main players in the social media and communication world (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Google) ...
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Is it a good idea to enforce a minimum comment length?
In a social application focusing on a niche community where the level of comment quality matters, is it a good idea to enforce a minimum comment length?
For example, see this set of comments on a ...
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Landing page for social network [closed]
I'm organizing the landing page for a website that provides social network features.
My idea is split the page into two area one for describe the goals and the other side will show social activities ...
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Suitable positions for social links on a website
I was just wondering if there is any research done into the ideal position to place social links (such as the links to the company's Facebook,twitter and Linkedin page).
I have seen them placed in ...
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Why don't Facebook and Google+ use face recognition tools for user profile pics?
Is there any reason they're not using a face recognition tools to see if someone has uploaded an avatar or a non-person picture like nature, building,etc? Will this rule limit users or frustrate them? ...
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Is “Tweet to Unlock a Free Download” a dark pattern?
The Bricks seemed like an interesting free UI design resource, so I proceeded to attempt download and then I hit a "Tweet to Unlock" wall. This irked me... the resource is not free if there is forced ...
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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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Coming soon pages - best practices?
I think the design of these pages vary greatly, and there is no set standard on what's usually on these pages. However, one thing that has been common with these pages in the past is that people tend ...
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What's the purpose of showing number of comments? [closed]
I was wondering if there's a reason to do so, other than to know if there's new activity.
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Does removing logo and general links do any good for better UX in a social network site?
I have a social network project in hand. As logo and main menu will be ignored after a while from users, I put the top menu in homepage,contactus,aboutus, and some other general pages.
When user logs ...
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Are social media icons as effective when grey-scale?
Social icons may be more noticeable in the header, but they can clutter they navigation.
Are social icons as effective in grey-scale? ie. Will users still see them in a group of links if they're not ...
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Should a site have separate buttons for social media sharing and following?
Following: 'following' a business on Twitter or 'liking' a business on Facebook, or subscribing to their YouTube channel.
Sharing: posting something on their wall/Twitter or their content on your ...
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Visualize deceased user on social media?
Death is part of our life, but we tend not to think about it. When a user dies in real life, the digital user still exists. Sometimes relatives continue to update the deceased users’ social media ...
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Why did they use two-stage social media sharing buttons?
I recently visited a seemingly fairly reputable web site and was astonished to see their implementation of a two-stage trigger for their social media buttons:
(The text appears when you hover over ...
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UX design pattern for whitespace [closed]
I logged in my Google+ today and found out that they change their user interface. I haven't notice the large whitespace on the right-side of news feed until only when I have seen a post that hundreds ...
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Why does the Google +1 button not change to a -1 once clicked?
When you +1 something on Google or Google+, the +1 button becomes red and clicking this red button will remove your +1 in the post.
Why was it designed like this? Changing the button color to red ...
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How to create a public UX process?
I want to make an experiment. I have a new project that I don't mind opening to the public.
What I want to try is to use the public (e.g. Facebook) to go through a UX design process - from collecting ...
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Is there a reason to keep a Facebook 'Share' button?
For over a year now, the Like button enables you to add a comment, and it shares the story on Facebook with the thumbnail and all.
Although the share dialog gives more options to the user - they are ...
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Social Media-List of users, Images, effectiveness
I am developing UI/UX for my mobile app which uses Social Networking.
Currently It downloads names and events of friends, to do that I download list of user's friend from social networks, i.e. ...
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Instant Facebook 'Like' or link to Facebook page
I'm currently working on a youth brand project at work.
We need a Facebook link on the webpage to link to the Facebook page.
I believe that it should be a 'Like' button with a possible counter next ...
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Share Buttons on Landing Page — Where to place them?
I've been reading up on share buttons in terms of placement, effectiveness, use, etc. However, the vast majority of resources are directed at blogs and other content oriented sites -- in fact, I ...
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How to show users the status of their sharing between my app and their social networks?
I am running a social commerce platform where customers can easily sign up via Facebook Connect. Products get shared via Twitter, Google+, Tumblr etc. All in all very convenient and of course, common ...
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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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How to indicate a user is a full member or just a regular member?
I'm looking for some nice ways to visualize whether a user is a full member or a regular member. Assume a Facebook-style website with full membership option.
The profiles will be displayed as blocks ...
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Do customized “Social Media Sharing Buttons” affect the amount of interaction?
When lots of social media sharing buttons are listed it tends to look like garbage (see below). However, all the buttons and icons are (kind of?) easy to associate with the respective sites. I wish ...
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Another word for a group of people
I am creating a facility to allow people to create groups to put people in that they like to keep in touch. I need a name for these groups and the obvious answer is 'group'. However, groups are ...
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Best practices for Facebook Website Like vs Page Like
When you have a website http://website.com I feel like there are two choices of how to utilize Facebook's like button:
I can have users like the website itself and then monitor it via the ...
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Should social sharing buttons be at the top or bottom of an article?
I can certainly see arguments for both sides of this one:
Buttons at the top: Easy to find, reliably positioned regardless of the article length. Extreme ease of sharing as you don't have to reach ...
