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ABOUT

Bokardo is the blog of Joshua Porter, a web designer/developer, researcher, and writer. I live in Newburyport, MA, USA.

WHAT IS SOCIAL DESIGN?

Social design is design that focuses on the social lives of users. It deals with the activities, behaviors, and motivations of people who work and play together through software interfaces. It is built on the observation that many of the decisions we make are greatly affected by those we surround ourselves with in our social lives: our family, friends, and colleagues. Exploring our motivations and how to design interfaces to support them is what the Bokardo blog is all about.

Designing for the Social Web

Building a social web site or application? I wrote a book just for you!

Find out more or order from Peachpit or Amazon

Greatest Hits

• Five Principles to Design By
• The Del.icio.us Lesson
• Designing for the Social Web: The Usage Lifecycle
• Facebook's Brilliant but Evil Design
• Digg's Design Dilemma (Part II)
• 7 Reasons Why Web Apps Fail
• 7 More Reasons Why Web Apps Fail
• Which Movie to Watch? An Overview of Recommendation Systems
• Ugliness, Social Design, and the MySpace Lesson

Upcoming Speaking Events

• Voices that Matter Conference
  Nashville, TN / Jun 10-13, 2008
• North Shore Web Geeks Meetup
  Newburyport, MA / June 19, 2008
• d.Construct
  Brighton Dome, UK / Sep 4-5, 2008
• Web 2.0 Expo
  New York, NY / Sep 16-19, 2008

LATEST POSTS

• Free chapter of Designing for the Social Web available
• My Proposals for 2009 SXSW Talks
• Passionates
• Tripit Employee Pretending to be Disgruntled Dopplr User?
• Can Interfaces be Evil?
• Interface Design Principle: Let people learn more
• North Shore Web Geek Meetup this week, now with talks!
• Social design: from customer service to innovation
• Co-evolving
• Bill Gates upset with Windows Usability

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