Creative Tech

Yahoo! Developer Network

Interaction design, prototyping2007 to 2013Product Design, Full-stack Product

A large part of my Yahoo! career went into the Yahoo! Developer Network. In 2007 I pioneered a way to build rapid, iterative usability-testing prototypes in HTML and CSS, at a time when Flash was the industry standard for that work. The approach worked well enough that parts of the prototypes were carried straight into production code.

Alongside the prototyping method, I designed a range of YDN features, including the API uptime dashboard, app-publish functionality, and the YDN events module. It is an early but telling example of the design-and-code overlap that still defines how I work today.

What I did

Pioneered HTML and CSS rapid prototyping for usability testing, replacing Flash
Designed the API uptime dashboard, app-publish functionality, and the YDN events module
Contributed prototype work that carried into production code

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