Facebook Workshop: Upgrading Your User Experience
At F8, Facebook outlined a new paradigm for enhancing user experience on platform. Ben Ling took the stage and outlined a new set of usability principles that would ensure “great apps” succeed on platform. To be quite honest, this has been a long time coming. The economy and investment in platform has strongly supported apps that pushed the envelope on spam. These apps often had more users, which translated into greater revenue and higher valuations (as absurd as Adonomics valuations were, some exits were close).
However, a lot of existing developers have had some difficulty understanding how this applies to their existing applications. How do you follow the guiding principles and adjust your app to meet all the new guidelines? Is unlocking more hugs verboten? What about an app where users grow their army by inviting friends?
That’s why we’re working on a San Francisco developer garage to help apply Facebook’s new principles to developers existing applications and help guide them on designing new applications. I just need some help hashing out the best format. What questions are bugging developers? Please leave a comment or ping me at nick@socialmedia.com.
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