Designing for Search Preston Smalley's comments on the search industry, design trends and their impact upon the future of eCommerce tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17475453 2006-02-14T05:40:23Z Blogger
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 true Preston 2006-02-13T20:33:00-08:00 2006-02-14T05:40:23Z 2006-02-14T04:41:25Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17475453.post-113989208533126937 Yahoo! shares design patterns
Today Yahoo! made a big contribution to the larger design community. Not thru an innovative product offering or nifty new technology... but thru a site committed to sharing their design patterns with the rest of the world. LukeW (who I suspect played no small role in this) has more on this important launch as does Bill Scott and a newly launched Yahoo! UI Blog. For those of us in large design
 false Preston 2006-02-09T10:02:04-08:00 2006-02-09T18:02:05Z 2006-02-09T18:02:04Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17475453.post-113950812498128358 eBay Watcher on Google Sidebar
Check out the new eBay plugin for Google Desktop's sidebar which allows you to see items you're watching. It's a great example of two platforms working together. My colleague Alan Lewis (who collaborated w/Google on the project) has more.
false Preston 2006-02-04T10:31:00-08:00 2006-02-09T18:35:14Z 2006-02-09T18:32:01Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17475453.post-113950992180561253 What does cable TV and the internet have in common?
Esther Dyson was at eBay a couple weeks ago for a speaker series we have and she made a comment during her talk that really struck me. In discussing her upcoming PC Forum conference "Erosion of Power: Users in charge" she pointed out that in a Web 2.0 world where everyone is a participant there is a real need for smaller groups. I find the thought to be incredibly insightful and couldn't agree
 false Preston 2005-12-29T11:54:00-08:00 2005-12-29T20:02:38Z 2005-12-29T20:02:38Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17475453.post-113588655811770573 I'm hiring
I'm looking for 2 talented UI designers to join my product design team. We focus on the following: eBay's search engine and results page (how to guide our 168 million shoppers to 20 million items that change each week)eBay's community-based content platform (e.g. Review Guides)eBay's Homepage and other Landing Pages Here's the Job Description.
 false Preston 2005-12-10T17:06:00-08:00 2005-12-11T01:33:57Z 2005-12-11T01:11:00Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17475453.post-113426346074099934 GMail Bait and Switch on RSS Feeds
This week I started using the RSS feed functionality (or what Google brands "Web Clips") which displays my subscribed headlines in the real estate at the top of your inbox. What surprised me was that Google (seemingly for the first time) has decided to share sponsored content in the same location and in the same form as user requested content (my RSS feeds). I realized this one morning as I was
 false Preston 2005-11-18T08:04:00-08:00 2005-11-18T16:10:05Z 2005-11-18T16:10:05Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17475453.post-113233020557873616 Mayfield on the "End of Process"
Ross Mayfield posted a facinating article on how successful decentralization will only come thru less process and more openness. No amount of process in a large company is going to enable the rapid information sharing that is needed in a large organization. Only tools like wikis ang blogs enable that kind of communication. Speaking from experience, I think he's hit this one right on the head. I
 false Preston 2005-11-17T11:03:00-08:00 2005-11-17T19:08:41Z 2005-11-17T19:08:41Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17475453.post-113225452105483230 Kodak's on the Role of Pictures
Thanks to Dave Young for the tip. Kodak recently put together a tour of the role pictures will have in our lives in the future. Facinating to think how Kodak views their past role of sharing and protecting photos evolving into the future. Flash Video (click skip, then on the tour sign)
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