Designing for the Social Web

3:08 PM, Monday, May 5, 2008 9 comments

Joshua Porter, aka Bokardo, has just announced the publication of his book Designing for the Social Web. I finally met Josh in person at SXSW when we were speaking on a panel together about this very subject. He's obviously got fantastic insight into the subject of design for social sites and it was very interesting to bat around ideas with him and, in particular, to hear his critiques of design choices on sites I've been working on like Digg and Pownce. I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on a copy of the book... turning on tracking for my Amazon shipment!

Also check out Mark Trammell's latest collaborative effort entitled Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites . It looks like Trammell (who works with me at Digg) and I will likely be doing a workshop at dConstruct this coming September in Brighton, England. He'll be discussing many of the topics from the book.

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Burke Shartsis - May 5, 2008 4:15 pm

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Two posts in two weeks. It's like your becoming a blogger again Daniel ;)

EZ - May 5, 2008 6:27 pm

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Looking foward to Joshua's book too. The other book release I'm excited for is Luke Wroblewski's "Web Form Design"

Justin Thorp - May 6, 2008 10:34 am

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Just ordered my copy of Joshua's book. I agree it does look really good and sounds like it will be super relevant.

One of the "Adapting to Web Standards" authors is a friend of mine, Kevin Lawver. He's a really awesome guy and crazy well-respected within the Web standards world. You should check him out. (http://lawver.net/)

Greg Newman - May 6, 2008 7:59 pm

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I've got my issue of Joshua's book on order. Amazon says tomorrow for delivery date. I'm looking forward to this one.

Geoff Corey - May 8, 2008 10:19 am

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Excited for both books. I'm not a presentation engineer and want to learn more CSS/AJAX. Most of the work I do is the object model behind the scenes. Social is the future of everything.

Joshua Porter - May 8, 2008 2:15 pm

http://bokardo.com

Wow, thanks Daniel! Would love to hear your thoughts on the book when it finally gets to you. Several of your experiences at Digg fed into the book in one way or another.