Category: Yahoo!

  • My YDN lightning talk on design patterns

    Thanks to Julie Choi who is producing this series and Ricky Montalvo who directed and filmed this five-minute talk. I really enjoyed it and I think they did a great job with it (and the whole series, actually):

  • Pattern languages interview

    In anticipation of the Pattern Library workshop I’m teaching with Erin Malone and Lucas Pettinati, Will Evans interviewed us for Boxes & Arrows, the premiere user experience magazine online. Will asked great questions and I think he brought out some interesting discussion among us all. Here’s a taste: Question: I have heard it argued that…

  • About this new book I'm (co-)writing

    As you may know, I am writing a book with Erin Malone called Designing Social Interfaces for O’Reilly Media. Erin is the the founder of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library and hired me to be its third curator. Today she is a partner at Tangible UX, a consulting firm, and I maintain the library as…

  • Girl Talk at Yahoo!

    Girl Talk at Yahoo! Originally uploaded by kentbrew I do the white man’s overbite. Please @kentbrew, point that camera over at @cynk. ah. better. thnaks!

  • Design hacks with stencils and patterns

    These are the slides I worked from today in my talk at Yahoo! Open Hack Day 08, Design Hacks with Stencils & Patterns: View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: openhack08 hackday)

  • Open Hackday 08 begins

    hackday stage Originally uploaded by xian. I’m going to name the robots Foo and Bar. We still haven’t announced the musical act that will be performing on this stage tonight. So far I’ve heard Cody Simms and Neal Sample (Cody and Neal, hmmm….) give a great overview of YOS (with great visuals by Micah Laaker),…