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A Different Take on Social Interfaces

A while back, I wrote a rant on Joel Spolsky’s conception of something he calls “social interface design.” Now there’s a thought-provoking piece out of IBM that defines “social interface” in a second and completely different way:
Social interface theory is built on the results of various studies demonstrating that humans respond socially in their interactions [...]

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Designing the Anti-Social Interface: A Rant

Joel Spolsky (of “Joel on Software” fame) has been getting a lot of attention lately for his observation that software designers need to think about the impact their designs have on the way their software mediates between people. In general, I’m all for this, as you might gather from my posts here, here, here, here, [...]

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