Social Design Best Practices November 5, 2007
Posted by jeremyliew in business models, facebook, game mechanics, google, myspace, open social, product management, social media, social networks, viral, viral marketing, web 2.0, web design.add a comment
Bokardo notes a set of social design best practices as recommended by the Google OpenSocial team:
1. Engage Quickly - (my interpretation: provide value within 30 seconds)
2. Mimic Look and Feel - (make your widget look like the page it is in)
3. Enable Self Expression - (let people personalize their widgets)
4. Make it Dynamic - (keep showing new stuff)
5. Expose Friend Activity - (show what friends are doing)
6. Browse the Graph - (let people explore their friends and friends of friends)
7. Drive Communication - (provide commenting features)
8. Build Communities - (expose different axes of similarity)
9. Solve Real World Tasks - (leverage people’s social connections to solve real problems)
Worth reading the full text from OpenSocial
