the eight types
Whitney Hess points me to the blog of Tom Fishburne who does these amazingly funny cartoons of corporate life. He has a series that describes the 8 types of cre...
Author: erin
current: experience matters design :: senior level interaction design and systems strategy consulting
former partner, tangible user experience; Yahoo! founder of the public and internal Yahoo! pattern library. design director of ued teams responsible for designing solutions across key yahoo! platforms: social media, personalization, membership and vertical search.
New Yahoo! Developer Network design rolling out
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...
Big week ahead
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...
Getting your game on
One of my longtime colleagues and friend Matt Leacock, who is an amazing interaction designer, is also a board game designer. He often has coworkers alpha and b...
still working some kinks out
this new blog is on wordpress and I am still figuring out how it all works – specifically accepting comments. so, apologies if you have tried to comment a...
Conducting a workshop at the 2008 IA Summit – register now!
I am conducting a preconference workshop, with my esteemed colleagues Christian Crumlish and Lucas Pettinati, on building a pattern library and using patterns a...
Not Just a Number
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 se...
Thinking About Transitions
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 th...
obligatory end of year post
it’s the last day of the year and I think I should be reflecting on things from this past year. It was a year of constants and change at the job – l...
IA Summit 2008 Here we come
Christian Crumlish, Lucas Pettinati and I submitted a pre-conference workshop and we just got notice that we were accepted. Watch for more info but we will be c...
Seeking the future through the past
My friend, Alex Wright, an IA at the NY Times, recently published an article, Friending, Ancient or Otherwise on the NY Times. The article looks at the recent t...
YDN Theater and Patterns
Christian Crumlish, our Pattern Library curator, over here at Yahoo!, was recently filmed giving a brownbag on the pattern library to Yahoo!’s UED organiz...
How to Submit a Proposal
I just finished as a reviewer for the IA Summit submissions and I have a whole new respect for how difficult it is to select and craft a program for a conferenc...
the importance of a common language
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 o...