Preston Smalley is a product leader with experience scaling entertainment platforms millions of people use everyday. He’s VP of Product at Roku, formerly of Comcast, eBay and Microsoft. He mentors and speaks within  the product mgmt community.

You can read Preston’s thoughts regularly here on topics like Product Strategy, Design, and Leadership.

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Hello

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Today I’ve decided to enter the blogosphere. My name is Preston Smalley, I’m located in the San Francisco Bay Area, work as UI Design Manager at eBay and am a MBA Candidate at the Haas School of Business (Class of 2008). I’ll use this space to comment on the search industry, design trends and their…

Hello

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Today I’ve decided to enter the blogosphere. My name is Preston Smalley, I’m located in the San Francisco Bay Area, work as UI Design Manager at eBay and am a MBA Candidate at the Haas School of Business (Class of 2008). I’ll use this space to comment on the search industry, design trends and their…

New Way to Shop on eBay

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I helped drive forward a program of user experience changes to our search products during 2005. The first of which launched in May 2005 as the alpha test for a “New way to Shop on eBay”. In addition to general simplification of the Finding UI, it introduced the following improvements: Multi-faceted browsing (e.g. search by…

New Way to Shop on eBay

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I helped drive forward a program of user experience changes to our search products during 2005. The first of which launched in May 2005 as the alpha test for a “New way to Shop on eBay”. In addition to general simplification of the Finding UI, it introduced the following improvements: Multi-faceted browsing (e.g. search by…