We have been creating our Social Media site and writing these blogs at a time when the national and international news agenda has been dominated at various times with stories of how Facebook allowed some researchers to mine personal data from millions of their users without their knowledge. Although for some the story wasn’t news, […]
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Creating the ‘MoreThan TALK’ logo
It is time to devise a logo for MoreThan TALK. If we had more time and greater resources, we could have commissioned a designer to work up some ideas and then complete market research on it. We had neither, so first stop (and a complete short cut!) was to visit www.freelogoservices.comwhich is a site that […]
Trust
If MoreThan Talk is going to being successful, we will need to help build trust into the social network. If users are going to be comfortable with sharing their personal data with the site and between fellow users, then we will have to work to develop trust. For Rousseau trust is a “psychological state comprising […]
Calculating Trust on MoreThan Talk
There are three broad types of trust that have been identified. 1.      Policy-based trust – these will be the explicit expectations, policies, terms and conditions that MoreThan Talk will need to develop in order to sign up members. There will also need to be some easy to understand user instructions where expectations about the sort […]
Script for Ziqi’s Advert
The advert on the homepage (and above) was the result of developing a script. Below is the final draft of the script. You might like to see if you can spot the differences between script and video! advert_script
What would users need from MoreThan Talk
We interviewed Sefika and Ziqi, two University of Southampton students whose homes are abroad to talk about why they chose to come and study in Southampton and what they would liked to have known before them came. SaveSave
The Ethical Design Manifesto
We came across this lovely manifesto for creating new technologies in the digital age. It is the creation of two designers, Laura and Aral from Ind.ie who are “striving for social justice in the digital age”. They are passionate that all technological developments (and this would include social media networks) should incorporate three essential features. […]
Logo : Finding A Brand Image for MoreThan Talk
Having settled on the name ‘MoreThan Talk’ we will need to devise a logo or symbol so that among all the competing social media icons stands out. Â With this in mind I went searching to see there were any examples of ‘MoreThan Talk’ iconography on the Web. Â Pleasingly there are only a couple of […]
Design Considerations for Our Social Network
We are in the world of YASNS. The term was first coined by Clay Shirky in 2003, when he said we have on our hands ‘Yet another Social Networking Service’ [1]. Shirky was writing at a time when social networks were growing daily in number. Wikipedia currently lists around 200 active (or recently active) social […]
Logo : A review of existing social network site logos
Visual Identity What ever we end up calling our social network, we will need to develop a strong visual identify. The name itself will form part of that identity, but there does need to be some visual association of the name with something that users recognise such that it becomes familiar. As a thoroughly non-academic […]