Social UX

Usability Week Courses

Usability Week offers courses about a broad range of web and application design topics. Most courses are also available as in-house training.

Credibility and Persuasive Web Design

Convince people to stay on your site, believe it, and take desirable actions

  • Behavioral and cognitive drivers and components of trust, credibility and persuasion
  • Easing decision-making
  • 70 web guidelines and examples to encourage users to take desirable actions

Social Features for Your Site

Framework for choosing on-site social features and implementation guidelines

  • A framework for selecting social features based on business goals and audience behavior
  • Understanding implementation and usability issues that can derail social features
  • Detailed user experience recommendations for implementing social features

Website Design Lessons from Social Psychology

The impact of social context on an individual's behavior

  • Predict users’ likely response to new designs
  • Know how to shape elements of your product to encourage users to do what you want them to do
  • Use the presence of multiple users to create online social norms
  • Capitalize upon the shift toward social media and community