93 posts tagged socialdesign

My apologies to those who have been visiting in anticipation of a fresh blog post. I have been extremely busy writing up my Masters Capstone project research report and analysing the data from my questionnaire (if you haven’t done it yet, please do).

Linking into the data matrix May 11, 2008 – 3:45 pm So… red pill or blue pill or how about both? The increasing size of the digital matrix has people reaching data intoxication,. There’s been much ado on social networking sites, tools, worlds ect..

Book: Designing for the Social Web By Joshua Porter Sun, 05/11/2008 - 20:56 — Mobkarma Joshua Porter who maintains a wonderful blog Bokardo.com and writes about Social Design has now published his insights in form of a book Designing for the Social Web.

Bootstrapping your niche is easier if you leverage existing motivation. How do you bootstrap your social site if you’re targeting a group that doesn’t yet use software (or doesn’t seem interested in using software)? While software designers can often see how useful their tool can be, normal users aren’t so prescient.

Whilst ploughing through new design talents, the last thing we expect to find is a teenager hitting the design headlines, however Armin Vit recently interviewed 18 year old Ethan Bodnar “…graphic designer, author and entrepreneur.” What surprises me (apart from his forthcoming book!), is not

The power of niche social sites isn’t just in connecting people, it’s in providing tools that allow people to do something better than they could before…or, the reason why PatientsLikeMe is an amazing web site. Ravelry.com is a social network site for the “knit and crochet community”.

A bit of local news to share with you: Boston Web Studio: Marc Amos, whom I met through local meetups, has taken the plunge and is now an independent web designer/developer specializing in creating attractive, modern, accessible web sites that appeal to the visitors your business needs to reach.

  Giving a new meaning to “soft light”, the D*Light Huggable Pillow is warmer in more ways than one. Soft, cuddly and gorgeous to look at, I LOVE them - give one of these anytime of the year and you’d be on my Christmas and Birthday card list forever.

1576684627 In an article about Flickr by Virginia Heffernan ("Sepia No More" in the New York Times Magazine), she bemoans what she sees as the dominant aesthetic on Flickr: As art-school photographers continue to shoot on film, embrace chiaroscuro and resist prettiness, a competing style of picture has been steadily refined online: the Flickr photograph.

Has it really been nine months? Last August, when I decided to go out on my own and start Bokardo Design, I also began writing a book on a new aspect of design that I called “social design”. Social design was the term I used when thinking about and designing for the social interactions between people using software.