thoughts about ux design, patterns and code
i was having a phone conversation today with a potential client and professional colleague when she asked me if i had thought about submitting a proposal to the IA Summit – for the management track – about my transition out of traditional management. We were talking about my transition from being a manager of managers, [...]
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I just finished the second pair of weeks as part of the firm Tangible. Things have really started to pick up. In the last two weeks, I have put together 4 project proposals, met with 3 potential clients in person and 2 by phone. I have had lunches and coffees with a couple of developers [...]
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I have just finished my first two weeks with Tangible ux. I am acclimating to working from home and have to make the extra effort to stay in touch with friends – dinners, brunch, events etc. – rather than relying on socializing at work. I am tending to get a LOT more done in general, [...]
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So folks are asking about what the next adventure is and where I am going. I can finally share… On August 1st, the partners of BranchLogic – Bruce Charonnet and James Young – and I – formerly of Yahoo! – will be creating a new company called Tangible user experience. [website in the works] I [...]
Hiring and building teams is something I think I do fairly well. I have hired a fair number of people over the last ten years. Thinking about the processes I have learned for hiring and the types of people who have been on my teams, I have come to see a common thread. I hire [...]
so yesterday I told my team that I am leaving Yahoo! after 4 1/4 years. i am torn about this move – super excited about the next step in my life and career (more on this later) but sad about the prospect of leaving Yahoo! the company is being whipped about in the press daily [...]
I recently went through the process of interviewing candidates for a position on my team. We decided this time though, that we had enough senior and mid-level people and that we would bring in some junior talent. This serves two purposes – bringing new blood into the organization that isn’t jaded by the work world [...]
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 [...]
Last year, my team was working in the Platform division and working on creating the social media platform for Yahoo! This included components related to identity, how a person is identified across the yahoo! network, reputation, relationships and something we call vitality – a person’s updates and lifestream of activity across the network or internet. [...]
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 [...]
In articles I have written for Boxes and Arrows, I have spoken about the designer, the individual contributor making the transition to management. I now find that I am in a position of transition in my career and am seeking advice and words of wisdom. We recently went through a reorg at work, as I [...]
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!. [...]
I am working on writing a set of use cases for a new project and as I am writing it occurs to me that the team I am working with calls all the different parts of the site and the content different things. I have been struggling with how to write these use cases because [...]
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 [...]
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