Design for social interaction
It is interesting to see how web economy evolves. When you look at it from perspective of developing relationship between different economy agents you notice many similarities with real world economy the way we know it.
Growing number of agents, institutionalization, rising competition even revolutions in the way business is done. What’s interesting is that what took centuries in the real world in internet economy takes years or even months.
Now all the heat is on social value of communication between business agents and between society members. The reason is that our modern society is becoming more and more equal to the internet society as more and more people get involved in this phenomena.
And like in real economy era of mass production mass media and social interaction and control finds reflection online but in much more surprising and interesting ways that we are just starting to realize.
Well anyway, with all the attention on social aspect of web it is worth noting that there is big interest in social design too. More and more companies are starting to pay attention to using masses for adding value to their propositions and for marketing their products and services but the science of social design is very new. Of course there is a lot of research and work done on social interaction in general but working that into creating user interfaces is new for everybody.
I’m really excited about following development of this new dimension of design and would be glad to find interesting resources.
So far this website attracted my attention – bokardo.com
Hopefully I will be able to share more finding in the nearest future.
Aug 22, 11:00 PM |