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Design And Usability Of Social Networking Web Sites, Robert Pessagno
Design And Usability Of Social Networking Web Sites, Robert Pessagno
Graphic Communication
This study began by designing the layout of a new social networking Web site and putting it to practical use. A team of computer science students at Cal Poly developed this social networking site for their senior project, and called it Friend Riot. The new and innovative features that Friend Riot consists of set it apart from other popular social networking Web sites, but its interface was lacking a good design. When the new design was implemented, it was tested against the competition: Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube.
The purpose of this study is to determine the effects that Web design …