Entries from Soldier Ant tagged with 'ued'
Colm Nelson Interview at Boxes & Arrows
I've been horribly remiss in mentioning that an interview I conducted with an old friend and colleague has been up over at Boxes & Arrows for some time now. (The second part just went live a day or so ago.)...
My Book Deal
This is exciting. And it feels like it warrants more than this simple, dashed-off blog entry. But, unfortunately, it's late and I want to get up early tomorrow to hit the gym. (I've fallen off the fitness wagon lately and...
Yahoo! OpenID SREG
I've known this was coming for some time now, but just spotted it 'in the wild' today. I worked on elements of the UI for attribute exchange between sites with Open ID (the SREG extension.) I tag-teamed on the...
My Ignite Columbus Talk
Last week I did a quick, 5-minute thing at the inaugural Ignite Columbus event. Met a fun group of folks (many of whom I'd already met at this summer's Startup Weekend Columbus.) My talk, Algorithms for Interesting was a riff...
Welcome, Bokardo Readers!
Hi! It's entirely possible that you've followed a link over here from my recent interview with Josh Porter on bokardo.com (Pt 1 and Pt 2 of the interview.) If so—welcome aboard! This blog is sort of a grab-bag of irrelevancy,...
Patterns of Reputation Representation
It is with a certain sense of pride that I watch as fellow Yahoo Christian Crumlish announces the arrival of a number of Reputation Patterns to the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. If you've seen me speak in recent months...
Designing Your Reputation System (in 15 Easy Steps)
My talk from the 2008 IA Summit. I hope to add more to this entry later, and upload an updated version to Slideshare with abundant notes. But, until then… enjoy! | View | Upload your own Update 5/13/2008 I uploaded...
Conference Administrivia
If you only experience my blog through the RSS feed, you may not notice this (if you come to the site, you can't help but notice... it's BRIGHT PINK!) But I've put a little badge in the sidebar of the...
Speaking at the 2008 IA Summit
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Simply Smashing
Fellow Yahoo Kathleen Watkins pinged me last week to let me know that she'd spotted my Flickr piece in a very nice DataViz and Infographics roundup on Smashing Magazine's blog. (I'd wondered where that minor influx of new favorite-ers and...
Droidmaker
One of my biggest frustrations in telecommuting for Yahoo! is this: I miss a lot of amazing speakers. A lot. Technologists, entrepreneurs, social scientists, Nobel-prize winners (no lie!) have come through Yahoo's campus since I started work more than a...
Return to Bottle Cube Mountain
This is an oldie but a goody. It was actually the second thing I ever posted to this blog, but the old .Mac location that entry pointed to went bye-bye a loong time ago. So here it is again. Enjoy....
Of Asymmetrical Warfare and a Sticky Grenade to the Face
Fun article on Wired that touches on some things that've been on my mind lately (specifically, Leaderboards, Rankings and the motivational/strategic impact they can have on a community's partisans.) Clive Thompson has adopted a 'take no prisoners' suicide strategy in...
Belatedly, Flickr User Model v3 in High-res
Wow. It's been 2 years (almost exactly to the day!) since I posted the original version of the Flickr User Model diagram. It quickly evolved through versions 2 and 3, where it stopped: Back then, I promised that I'd share...
Yahoo! UK Message Boards, now with Reputation
As promised, I am in Pittsburgh on a Friday night, holed up in a classroom on 5th-floor Wean on the Carnegie-Mellon campus. We've had a pretty good ebb-and-flow of interested student hackers.. we're down to only the hardcore now (and...
Vote to Promote, and the Yahoo! Open Pattern Library
If you've arrived here at Soldier Ant from the Yahoo! User Interface Blog, Welcome! This is (mostly), a blog about nothing. Kinda like Seinfeld, only... um... not funny. Anyway, as Christian notes, today he pushed a pattern to the Open...
Welcome to the Social
Interesting. U of M's School of Information has added a specialty in Social Computing with a nice-looking curriculum (recommender systems, reputation systems, online communities.) Creds to Don Turnbull for pointing this one out....
Bowing Out of IA Summit
It pains me to say it, but—a mere 10 days after announcing my IA Summit talk—I now have to announce that I won't be able to deliver it. (I informed Summit organizer Donna Maurer earlier this week, who has been...
Speaking at the 2007 IA Summit — 'Design Plectics'
This isn't exactly news in the sense that it's new, but I haven't mentioned it here yet (nor, really, talked about it much with any of my colleagues.) But I've had a talk accepted for the 2007 IA Summit in...
The Organization Man
Apropos of nothing, here's a quote that I like from William H. Whyte's Introduction to his own seminal sociological study The Organization Man: There are only a few times in organization life when he can wrench his destiny into his...
Greasemonkey for User Research Prototypes?
So, I'm up a little late, picking through Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into Greasemonkey and cobbling together some simple scripts. (Here's a small peek into my tattered psyche.. I take great joy in following along with "Hello World"-type examples, but changing...
World Usability Day in Ohio
Of course, next Tuesday (Nov. 14th) is World Usability Day, and my old Bowling Green pal and (all-around badass IA) Keith Instone has gathered all of the Ohio events into one convenient list. It looks like Keith will spend the...
Designers Embrace Your Bugs
This hasn't been on my mind in a while, but it has come up with astonishing regularity in my career as a UI designer, and I feel like I've learned a couple lessons.. so I wanted to write this down...
HIG Dead?
This one's for Jamison. A nice summary of a talk that John Gruber (of Daring Fireball) gave at the C4 conference.I got so used to defending the party line for so many years, that I stopped questioning whether it was...
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