{"id":908,"date":"2016-01-07T13:17:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T10:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tubikstudio.com\/?p=908"},"modified":"2024-02-21T08:54:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T08:54:50","slug":"social-network-design-ux-for-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tubikstudio.com\/blog\/social-network-design-ux-for-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Network Design. UX for Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps, one of the best opportunities coming from the Internet and appreciated by a great variety of users all over the world is the ability of easy communication, first of all via different social networks. Today there are loads of social networking sites and services starting from general ones providing multiple functions and features for the broad target audience to specialized networks concentrating on needs and pains of the narrow target audience. There are specialized social networks for mums, scientists, cyclists, writers, tourists, teachers and so on and so forth. Let’s discuss social network design.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, the target audience<\/a> is not the only point to concentrate on. Type of content can also become a key factor to make the social network go round photos and images, videos, short or long copy blocks, links, and recommendations or something else. Anyway, although diverse social networks spring up like mushrooms, in most cases they still find their user and reader, especially if UI\/UX is thought-out from the very first stages of design.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Having practical experience of various social network UI design here in Tubik Studio, today we share some ideas on things important to consider in the process of creating a product targeted on communication. As this topic is really wide and it\u2019s impossible to mention everything in one post, today we only start this conversation having gathered the general positions designer needs to take into account\u00a0while working on this kind of product.<\/span><\/p>\n

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UX screens for social network Echo<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Features of a social network<\/span><\/h2>\n

Social networks as the services concentrated on communication usually have some basic features, which are mostly universal independently from the target audience or perhaps content on which the communication is based. Among these basic features we would mention:<\/span><\/p>\n