User Interface 7 East: Design for Community: An Interview with Derek M. Powazek
User Interface 7 East: Design for Community: An Interview with Derek M. PowazekThe biggest misconception is that community can be built at all. It can’t. What you can do is build an environment that is conducive to social interaction. If people adopt it and make it their home, they’ll call it a community for you. Community isn’t built—it’s grown. That’s why the specifics of that environment are so important. The visual design, interaction design, experience design, text, signage … all of it has to work together to make the user feel comfortable and give them clear and welcome ways to communicate with other users.
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