UED

(meant to blog this when it came out and obviously I forgot) whitney hess writes a timely and well thought out article about common misconceptions in user experience design. I am quoted twice in the piece. Several of my peeps are quoted as well. Whitney did a great job crafting the piece around all these [...]

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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. [...]

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 [...]