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Designing for Community

Joshua Porter (Bokardo and Chi.mp)
1:30pm Tuesday, 09/16/2008
Topic: Design & UX, Workshop
Location: 1A21 & 22
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Whether you know it or not, communities exist around your product/service. Engaging them and providing a positive user experience is increasingly a competitive advantage. The question is: how can you design for it?

In this workshop, Joshua Porter will share best practices of designing for community, including the topics:

  • How to decide what social networking features to have, and not have.
  • Setting the tone with copywriting and design elements.
  • Writing rules and regulations in plain language.
  • What a Community Manager does and what they’re responsible for.
  • How to let the community police itself.
  • How to say you’re sorry when something bad happens.
  • The 10 habits of highly effective community managers.

In this talk Porter will cover the bases of designing for community. You’ll be armed with a valuable set of practices to implement with your own communities.

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Joshua Porter

Bokardo and Chi.mp

Joshua Porter is the founder of Bokardo Design, an interface design and strategy company focusing exclusively on social web applications. There he works with clients to create world-class user interfaces that are easy-to-use while still fulfilling their strategic role. He is currently working on chi.mp, a next-generation online identity platform. Joshua is the author of Designing for the Social Web, released in May 2008.