Bokardo » Comic: Content or Design?
Social design is a subset of design that focuses on the social lives of users. It deals with the activities, behaviors, and motivations of people who work and play together through software interfaces. In the early days of the Web, most sites were read-only, focused on providing information to a single person at a time. Then the Web became read/write, allowing people to save information but still mostly for them acting alone. Now, we’re seeing a tremendous amount of social software that allows many people to collaborate and share what they’re doing with others. Designing for this social world is social design, and that’s what we’re talking about here at Bokardo.
Some really good stuff here, which I’m glad to see. Some really good essays/short articles about things like ‘Design is not Art.’ and other nice, artsy-fartsy pretentioustastic topics that I miss. I get really frustrated with web stuff nowadays. Making sites and such, the whole point of things is to USE them. UUUUUSEEEE THEMMMMM.
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