Last May I was given the great privilege to write a sidebar in Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone’s fabulous new book, Designing Social Interfaces. The topic I was asked to write about is “onboarding” — designing welcoming experiences for new users by easing them in. You might have seen a couple blog posts that I’ve [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Onboarding'
Onboarding: A Sidebar in “Designing Social Interfaces”
October 6th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Design, Pleasure, Social Networking, User Experience
Tags:Books·Design·Onboarding·Patterns·Pioneers·Pleasure·Social Networking·User Experience
Plurk You
June 20th, 2008 · 10 Comments · User Experience
I’ve been wanting to write about Plurk for a while. Everyone seemed to be so enamored with it when it first launched, but maybe that was because Twitter was experiencing serious downtime and people were pissed off — not because it was anything actually worth being excited about.
The first time I logged on, I had [...]
Tags:Design·Onboarding·Pain·Pleasure·Social Networking·User Experience
Yahoo!’s Shine
March 31st, 2008 · 10 Comments · Design
Everyone in the Twitterverse — @efortiz, @arainert, @jonesabi — is talking about the launch of Shine today so I had to check it out for myself. Shine from Yahoo! is a new website that is meant to be a destination for women between the ages of 25 and 54. On their About Us page, they [...]
Tags:Design·Onboarding·Pain·Pleasure·Social Networking·User Experience
