On this page the following entries were made in the “January, 2008” time-frame.
Archive for “January, 2008”
Yahoo: Selling the work to a busy executive
Attached is a deck I created to help the busy VP of our group quickly grasp the work. The simple line art helped draw attention to all the right areas of the proposed experience. An interface spec, which would normally take 60 minutes to describe in detail, was condensed to a 7 minute presentation which helped highlight the areas which she could provide guidance on.
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Yahoo: RSS Feed Discovery Interface
The Yahoo Mail interface allowed users to subscribe to RSS feeds, but the legacy interface was an after thought: It allowed users to subscribe to known feeds, but provided no discovery experience.
I worked with the RSS team to understand how feeds were discovered, consumed, cached, and updated by the network then created an interface which would work not only with Mail. but any Yahoo property which wanted users to add RSS feeds.
Finished product
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Yahoo: Yahoo Application Platform
The Yahoo Application Platform was a framework we piloted enabling Yahoo properties to open their pages to 3rd party developer applications. Example use case: Users can add an OpenID permissioned Mint.com personal finance module to Yahoo Finance, or any other enabled property.
My team provided experience and visual design options for the consumer experience: primarily the application gallery that allowed used to discover interesting apps on any page, and the “chrome” around each app which included a menu of standard options and settings.
test.
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