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I am at eTech this week. I will try to blog about some of the events as I observe them. Creating Passionate Users I attended Kathy Sierra ...

I've had a few people ask us why we went public with our libraries. Having been intimitately involved in the bringing the pattern librar...

I am excited to announce that just a little while ago, we (Yahoo!) released two new (previously internal) libraries to the public. The Yahoo...

LA Conference A few days back I had the delight of speaking at the Adaptive Path, Designing and Building with Ajax along with Jesse James Ga...

Recently I was asked to provide input into a presentation. The question was asked, if you were going to provide some quick basic guidelines ...

In December, Adaptive Path started a new series of conferences specifically addressing how to design and engineer rich Internet applications...

James Govenor pointed out a connection between my blog about Interesting Moments and Kathy Sierra's blog on Is it Interesting? (see a...

Ajax opened the door to immediate actions. One of the first types of problems that immediate action was applied to was in the area of search...

In a previous post, I discussed the idea of an Interaction Matrix . I described its purpose as documenting the event states that occur with...

In an earlier post I mentioned a wireframe toolkit I wrote for Visio to make wireframe creation go much faster. Specifically I discussed on...

A couple of weeks back, Yahoo! announced Trip Planner If you haven't had a chance to use it, I strongly encourage you to get your hands...

Sometime in the next month my article for boxesandarrows.com will finally appear. It discusses using Microsoft Visio for animating rich inte...

Recently, I have been exploring drag and drop and inline editing for the web. At Yahoo! I am fortunate to work with some incredibly bright f...

If you lived through the desktop UI boom of the 80's and 90's, you will recall the history of popup windows. You will recall the ris...

I've been thinking a lot lately about mouse hovers. Yeh, I know I really should get out more often ;-) A mouse hover is a really simple ...

Confession Ok, I'll start with a confession. I think accessibility issues have always been an abstract concept to me. It usually was an ...

Lots of buzz around Flock . The new social browser scheduled for an October release. Oh no, you say. Not another browser! No, its not reall...

Finally going to be in limited beta release. Ok, first disclaimer. I work for Yahoo. And Darren James, fellow Rico-man & former teammate...

James Governor has done an excellent job on expanding my definition of richness to more clearly include open information. We are witnessing ...

What is Richness? Richness in terms of a user interface means that the application provides a rich interaction model, a rich visual model an...