8 tips for nurturing your people ( and therefore, your product)

George Oates från Flickr hann med att ge följande åtta tips för att ge näring åt ett community på FOWD igår:

Encourage the new users to feel your application, at flickr users are called members!

1. Gates – Focus on the Lifecycle of a member, sitemap begone. Think in terms of gates not trees. While designing think about what the gates might be.
2. Pretty URLs - Play on the idea of a URL as a command line and use them to design the flow of your application.
3. Design for zero data -Invitation to find your way, suggest people you know, etc… stumble on things you might not know about
4. Sensible defaults - Flickr is a complex app, make it easy to use by providing easy defaults to guide your users
5. Accept different languages
6. Show activity -Show what’s going on with real time updates. Think about what you show to people, ways to suck them in
7. Exploration - Allow people to explore or use the application right away, entice their curiosity
8. Neutral point of view - Maintain a neutral point of view, if there’s a rich variety of people don’t see yourself as an arbitrator.