PD is an approach to design. It actively involves current and future users of a space in the design and decision making process. PD is a dynamic and continuous process. Sometimes designers may revisit a site and start another PD process because the needs of the site's users have changed. Open Road uses PD to design sites and in many of its other projects. We follow the five step participatory design process described below.
A social software wiki page on design patterns for social software, categorised under trust and identity, collaboration, and communications. Click through twice to get to a longer list of patterns. Output from social software course.
E. Gouli, A. Gogoulou, and M. Grigoriadou. Proceedings of the ED-MEDIA 2006, World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, (2006)