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.
Relations | Is there a way to _____? |
findability, inside | …find other people inside the network? |
findability, outside | …find other people outside the network? |
separation | …see friend-of-friend’s profiles? |
privacy | …allow or deny other’s contact? |
keep | …keep in touch with friends? |
— proximity | …see who is closer to myself? |
— time | …see who I’ve lost contact with? |
— themes | …involve your friends in common activities? |
public relations | …broadcast yourself? |
excellence | …give credit to relevant people you know? |
curiosity | …receive suggestions about interesting contacts? |
management | …categorize or group contacts? |
Identity |
Is there a way to _____? |
amplitude | …express yourself? |
— mood | …express your mood? |
— appearance | …customize your profile? |
— person | …express your daily life? |
— avatar | …create an online identity? |
interests | …show your interests? |
— offline | …show your offline interests? |
— do | …show your online activities? |
uniqueness | …distinguish yourself from others? |
privacy | …show who you are to who you want? |
group | …show your group membership? |
Communication |
Is there a way to _____? |
speed | …communicate quickly with your contacts? |
— sync | …meet together to talk? |
— async | …leave a message to someone? |
quantity | …handle a high amount of messages? |
— complexity | …have complex conversations? |
— parallelism | …manage multiple conversation channels with different users? |
— aggregability | …be supported by the system to handle many messages? |
richness | …send and receive rich multimedia messages? |
private conversations | …have a conversation with one person? |
public conversations | …have a public conversation? |
plural conversations | …have a conversation with a specific group? |
Emergence of Groups |
Is there a way to _____? |
findability | …find and join a group that shares an interest with you? |
easiness | …create a group of friends or around a theme? |
bottom-up type | …show up in a group due to the things you do? |
liveliness | …see how much the group is active? |
— presence | …see the online people in that group? |
— production | …see how many contents the group does produce? |
— subscribers | …see how many people are there in the group? |
— frequency | …see how often people interact in that group? |
longevity | …see how long that group exists? |
— short | …create short-term groups? |
— long | …create long-term groups? |
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