User trust is essential for an application to be successful. Be
respectful to your users. Design an experience that engages novices as
they gain confidence with your application.
Take advantage of Yahoo!'s tools for getting user feedback, bug
reports, and feature requests.
- Before pushing your application live, test the different
states of each view, ensure that Updates are posted properly, and
test that sharing works. Use A-Grade
browsers for testing.
- Ensure that Updates are posted correctly and sharing
works.
- Allow users to submit bug reports and feature requests easily
in your application through links in the bottom right of your
application (Example: Lexolous)
- Request only those permissions that your application needs to
access user data (such as Contacts).
- Don't display sensitive or private information to others.
(Example: "Mark just bought 4 shares of AAPL stock at
$93.14/share.)
- Don't display user-specific data to users who are not
connected to a user. For example, identify users with nicknames
instead of full names or other information that your application
obtains.
- Don't force users into submitting comments about your
application through the Yahoo! "Report Abuse" link available in each
application.
- Don't request redundant permissions to access user content
(such as Contacts) if your application doesn't need it to
operate.