The February Ultra Light Startups Entrepreneur’s Forum will be on the topic of Designing Social Websites. The panel will cover topics including:
- What is a social website? What makes a site social?
- Why people participate online. Why some social sites work and others don’t. The psychology of online social interaction.
- An overview of interactive design patterns for online social interaction. What works and what doesn’t. “Paving the cowpaths”
- Visual design that complements interactive design.
- Launch of a social site. Bootstrapping a community from zero users. Getting over the “sign-up hurdle”.
- Monitoring, analytics and design iteration for social interaction.
Our esteemed panel of user experience and information architecture experts include:
- Bryan Hamilton, Director of User Experience at Razorfish
- Dan Maccarone, Co-Founder, Hard Candy Shell
- Alex Rainert, Creative Director at kgbweb
- Christopher-Ian Reichel, Director, Product Development – Social Media at Viacom/MTVnetworks
For more information, panelist bios and registration instructions please see the Designing Social Websites event page.
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