Today, forums launched as part of the Yahoo! Developer Network. It’s a soft, preview launch so there are very few boards up while all the kinks are being worked out. BUT the first boards launched are two boards for discussions around the Pattern Library – one general board – and one for Pattern Authors. Eventually, [...]
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Earlier this year, as part of our workshop at the IA Summit, we made a robust set of design stencils that map to the Yahoo! Pattern Library and the Yahoo! User Interface Library. These stencils were made for Omnigraffle, Visio, Adobe Illustrator and PNG files for Photoshop and SVG for other applications. We have now [...]
I wrote a wrapup about the Yahoo!s who presented at the IA Summit over on the Yahoo! Developer Network blog. Pretty much everything is said there and there are embedded presos from SlideShare and podcasts from Boxes and Arrows.
Our first batch of the newly designed site rolled out today! It looks great and is the collaborative work of an incredibly talented team. Lucas Pettinati who is the UX lead for the project, Stephan Douris who created a beautiful visual language for the site, Jono Kane who prototyped the hell out of things and [...]
This week we head out to the IA Summit and present our workshop on writing, using and building a pattern library and using that with code to prototype and build sites. My slides are done and Lucas is pulling everything together from the three of us presenting. It should be an interesting day and hopefully [...]
One of the cool things about now working on the Yahoo! Developer Network, is finding out about all the cool things people are doing with the technologies and services we offer. Not Just a Number is one of those. Featured here in a YDN Theater Video released last week, Sean Connelly and Katy Newton talk [...]
Christian Crumlish, our Pattern Library curator, over here at Yahoo!, was recently filmed giving a brownbag on the pattern library to Yahoo!’s UED organization. It’s a good talk on the history of the library and how to create patterns and why we want to create patterns and the publishing process we use here at Yahoo!. [...]
As of this week I have new and different responsibilities at Yahoo! I now head up the ued team responsible for the Yahoo! Developer Network. Having been the creator and driver of the Pattern Library, this is a nice logical next step. Open is a big bet for us and creating a great environment for [...]
