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…
I am pleased to announce that we recently released a set of 9 Reputation Patterns over on the Yahoo! Pattern Library. Written primarily by Bryce Glass, these patterns are many months in the making and reflect the work of Bryce, product manager Yvonne French, and much guidance from our former community guru Randy Farmer as…
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.
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….
Over the last couple of days, I have done some online shopping and been pleasantly surprised by a couple of small interface behaviors that made my life easier as a shopper. Amazon [http://www.amazon.com] When presented with the login screen – the information is already pre-filled (I saved it in my browser) – but the radio…
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 creative directors, the 8 types of bad creative critics and the 8 types of brand managers. If you have ever worked with a CD or Brand…
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…
Interesting post by VC Paul Graham. It’s an interesting essay on the dynamics of humans in groups and makes a case for working in smaller companies rather than in large ones with hierarchies. Definitely food for thought.
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 beta test his games – which are amazingly complex but fun – so it’s been fun to see his ideas evolve as he iterates and refines the games….
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 and been unsuccessful – I am working to figure out where all the settings are. Many years using MT had me trained in that system of settings….