Davide Casali = Folletto Malefico: Hybrid Interaction Designer = Design × Psychology × Technology / Simplicity × Complexity

Google+ Early Adopters Circles Survey

How are Google+ early adopters using the new social network? This survey report shows usage patterns & best practices from other people’s experience. Even if there are many ways to organize your circles, Tribes in which you can identify seem the most effective way to do that, followed by the kind of relation you have and the topics you’re interested in.

The ethics of social networks: let’s start considering it

The so-addressed social technologies are here, and here to stay. They are showing the world what you can do with a network and a bit of good social design. But with the growing success of those services, both in usage and in revenue, shouldn’t we stop a while and think about the ethics of them?

Social Usability checklist

Social Usability is a quality attribute that assesses how easy social interactions are to make. The checklist is built to be both a simple rule of thumb and an important guideline in the hands of a social network designer.