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Designing For Communities
Designing For Communities
Demystify the success behind online communities. Exchange and understand basic human behaviors and emotion in order for you to adjust your process and techniques to leverage people's experience . Design an environment that motivates and helps create better human interactions.
Summary
Are you a Web developper, a Business man, a Designer, a Project Manager and are currently working on an Online Community? Are you building/thinking people's interactions, understanding what to do when users are misbehaving and need advice and guidelines?
This course is for you. It will help you adopt some basic design thinking to help you understand the structure of a community, the basic interactions between people, and the dynamic and tips for how to increase length of stay and other activities that could help sustain the community.
We will cover the basic understanding of communities using metaphors with the real world and offline communities. Draw some conclusions, prepare a set of questions to ask ourselves before building an online community. Setting people's goals, rewards and motivation. Setting business goals clearly. Setting branding goals.
You will walk out of this course with a guide you will have built yourself that will help you doing a great job.
Learning objectives
- Ask the right questions
- Understand people's interaction
- Establish goals as guidelines
- Understand basics human interactions
- Learn how to make your community positive and motivated
- Learn how to manage mean users
- Learn the 5 key elements to make sure to have in a successful online community
Schedule/Syllabus
Comments
I am here signing in for
I am here signing in for attending
COol!
COol!
hi, interesting course..
hi, interesting course.. difficult sign up task :(
in the sign up task, what do
in the sign up task, what do you mean by online profile..? Is this referring to the information that one should enter when creating their own online profile, or, the information that one should ask of community members in the online profile process? thanks in advance
hello zaki patel, i don't
hello zaki patel, i don't think i designed the sign up task.. i'm sorry its difficult! i'll try to register to this class without being signed in to understand best how to help you.
Hello Zaki Patel, I fixed the
Hello Zaki Patel, I fixed the sign up task. I was confused, did not know what you mean. Sorry about that.
The course is for 2 days?
The course is for 2 days? "This course is scheduled to run from 23 May 2011 to 25 May 2011". Oh, I think the sign-up task is a little bit complex for being the first task. Although, the course seems interesting!
Hello! I've changed the sign
Hello! I've changed the sign up task. I am sorry it was too hard, this is the first time I try this way of teaching/learning. Thank you for your comments.
Celine, i want to sign up in
Celine, i want to sign up in this course, but i writed the task with the past prerequisites, except the last, i have
The first assignment will be to analyse existing communities and outline what works and what doesn't work. and The best online profile.
and cant see the last point now :S
Hello Heber Fer, okay so you
Hello Heber Fer, okay so you subscribe to the course and filled out the first assignment? I tried to make it easier this time... Try again and let me know.. :S
can i use the past work?
can i use the past work?
i guess..
i guess..
hi Celine... it will be a
hi Celine... it will be a great course ... because this is a excellent topic... I am already signed up
I'm excited, but it's so far
I'm excited, but it's so far away. I hope it's worth the wait. :)
Where can I sign me up for
Where can I sign me up for this Course ??? I really want to do it
so Jose Francisco.. How come
so, Jose Francisco.. How come you can't register to this course?
Thanks Celine. Anyone with
Thanks Celine.
Anyone with good links to have us acclimated and up to speed feel free to post them, if those course dates stay as stated, this is going to move fast. I always worry I don't know enough! Thanks, waiting to see what anyone comes up with :)
@joe palmer - Here are a few
@joe palmer - Here are a few links I've come across while designing. I don't think any specifically relate to making community web apps, but it's something.
http://dribbble.com/ - High quality designers who do a lot of work on web apps. Search the UI tag.
http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/ - New(ish) site devoted to teaching some of the basics of design theory as it relates to the web.
http://www.designerstalk.com/forums/ - Great forum filled with high-quality designers. Not necessarily community or even web-design, but they'll give you pretty solid (and offensive - have a strong stomach) advice. Some of the posts on this site are NSFW.
http://ffffound.com/ - Random designer tidbits from around the web. Nice inspiration.
http://www.cssrainbow.com/ - A huge collection of CSS/Flash galleries. It'd be really nice if someone found one of these that had a "community" theme to it. Please reply if you do.
To be honest, I can't really think of any decent UX tutorial resources. It's a shame.
I think what's helped me the most is just drawing inspiration from dribbble. The quality of the designers on there is so high that when you see one do something like this ( http://dribbble.com/shots/159790-Backend-Interface-Design ) you can begin studying what they did.
It's no substitute for actually understanding the theory behind user experience, but it's something I suppose.
Another little resource I stumbled upon for actual ux theory was some old book from the US government that went over UX. I forget the name of it, but it went over a lot of the basics (people like an FAQ, people want to see a search box around the nav bar somewhere, etc).
I'd really like to see if anyone has a good resource on UX, so I encourage anyone to follow this up and can't wait for this class to launch. Hopefully it won't be underwhelming and the few days it runs will lay a lot of knowledge down on our candy asses.
Thanks Cory, I will look at
Thanks Cory,
I will look at all of that, now is about bed time. Here, this is really nothing to do with comunity, but I was looking at this the last few hours and some of it would plug into community, like map diredtions- anyway it's just a pass on as a thanks! ( http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/how-to-create-a-web-service-in-a... )
Lets keep it going, I'll relay back in a few days- thanks again!
uxmovement.com has got some
uxmovement.com has got some good tips on UX.
anyone has any comments on
anyone has any comments on this
http://communitytools.info/tools/
very excited to learn from
very excited to learn from this course!
Here's another resource I've
Here's another resource I've found that seems to be pretty nice: http://www.uxmag.com
I'll post more as I come across them.
That's one of my favorite
That's one of my favorite resources. lots of interesting articles and how UX ties in to psych
That's one of my favorite
That's one of my favorite resources. lots of interesting articles and how UX ties in to psych
Just got a link to this from
Just got a link to this from SmashingMagazine.com which also has some great stuff on the subject. It's quite a big list of style and UI guidelines. http://www.theuxbookmark.com/2010/08/interaction-design/a-monster-list-o...
Hi Celine! Just applied for
Hi Celine! Just applied for this course and I am very excited to know more about this course. Looking forward to learning with you guys soon! BW!
Hi, everyone! I am Keledoll
Hi, everyone!
I am Keledoll from China. I am working on a project which is quiet similar to p2pu, but it is all in Chinese. Our target group are university students. I really want to know how to keep them interest in our website. If there is a seminar about that, that would be great!