From the creators of Yahoo!’s Design Pattern Library, Designing Social Interfaces provides you with more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, along with salient advice for many of the common challenges you’ll face when starting a social website. Designing sites that foster user interaction and community-building is a valuable skill for web developers and designers today, but it’s not that easy to understand the nuances of the social web.

The patterns in this collection are social design patterns (a.k.a. social user experience design patterns). They are interaction pattern for people designing social interfaces.This wiki presents the collected patterns for community feedback and discussion.

Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience (Animal Guide). # Paperback: 520 pages; # Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (September 28, 2009); # Language: English

The image on the cover of Designing Social Interfaces is a king bird of paradise (Cicinnurus regius). Members of the Paradisaeidae family, these small passerine birds can be found on the New Guinea mainland and on the surrounding islands of Aru, Missol, Salawati, and Yapen. They inhabit lowland rainforests and build their nests in tree cavities. Their diet consists of fruit and insects.

A series of talks I gave sponsored by the Yahoo! Developer Network, in London and Berlin, reviewing the history of UX design patterns and delving into the social design patterns project, isolating 5 principles, 96 patterns, and 5 anti-patterns

Designing Social Interfaces - workshop talk given at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.

Designing for social interaction is hard. People are unpredictable, consistency is a mixed blessing, and co-creation with your users requires a dizzying flirtation with loss of control. We will present the dos and don’ts of social web design using a sampling of interaction patterns, design principles and best practices to help you improve the design of your digital social environments.

Christian Crumlish is the curator of Yahoo!’s pattern library, although he prefers to describe himself as a pattern detective. He’s a design evangelist on the Yahoo! Developer Network team and helped develop the Yahoo! Open Strategy.

Erin Malone is currently a partner with the user experience design firm Tangible UX. Previously she was at Yahoo! managing experience design teams and designing websites and applications, social experiences and components, and building the internal and external Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. During her tenure at Yahoo! she was responsible for Community products and platforms, and for helping develop the Yahoo! Open Strategy, including its social offerings.

本博客主要翻译国外社会化设计（social design）方面的资料，目前文章来源为Designing Social Interfaces上面的全部设计模式（Social Patterns ）。

Social Design wiki -- Chinese version