From the creators of Yahoo Design Pattern Library, Designing Social Interface provides more than 100 patterns, principles and best practices, along with important advice for many common challenges you will face when starting a social site. You will learn how to balance the opposing factions and growing online communities healthy by co-creating them with your users. Understanding the principles you need to consider thoroughly for each website you create Learn basic design pattern to add a social component to the existing site Rein in misbehaving active community of users on site Building social experience around a product or service and invite people to join social Developing utilities without having to build infrastructure Enable users an entirely new content to your site to interact with one another Offer your members the opportunity to connect in the real world Learn to recognize and avoid antipatterns: is bad practice in social networking and social media space