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Ok, so I moved to the bay area a couple of years back. I am from Dallas. So with the cowboys doing such an incredible job and the local team...

Earlier this year I started giving talks on Anti-Patterns for Interaction Design . What are anti-patterns? Anti-patterns, also called pitfal...

Ok, so I am still new at Netflix. But thought it might be interesting to write up my first impressions. Sean Kane , my predecessor did a rea...

Over the last 2+ years I have had the honor and pleasure of working for one of the greatest companies on the planet and with some of the gre...

Finally got to hear Jason Fried ( 37 Signals ) in person. I know that Jason is controversial and his stance on team size, ways of working a...

For the folks at MIMA (or others interested), the latest version of my talk Designing for the Rich Web Experience is available for download...

I attended and spoke at the MIMA (Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association) Conference yesterday. The conference had around 700 attendee...

Recently, I have been giving a new talk on Anti-Patterns . Sometimes it is most instructive to look at design patterns in reverse-- as a set...

Ok, the last thing in my mind when I created Protoscript was for it to be YAT (yet another toolkit). I have been asked several times what r...

Wow. It has actually been 2 months since my last post. Nope. I have not fallen off the planet. This has been one of the craziest times I hav...

I am having the hardest time filling two positions on my team. And I am working on what I think is one of the coolest products in Yahoo! ( ...

I decided to wrap the YUI Logger , add a JavaScript command line that outputs the results in a hyperlink format to facilitate simple drill d...

Cue'ing the User One of the challenges with the carousel is clearly delineating that there is more content hidden behind those back and ...

Our local Microsoft UX Evangelist, Will Tschumy (formerly of Flock) is putting on a UX Design/Bar Camp-like event. They have asked 5 leading...

Update: Version 0.5.1 added. It adds a spotlight & preview demo. Just posted a new version of the carousel at: http://billwscott.com/car...

Mix'07 in Vegas Looking forward to Vegas! I was fortunate to be invited by the friendly folks from Microsoft to give a talk about rich...

In my last post I said that I was putting my head down to work on something at Yahoo! that I believe strongly in. Strongly enough to set asi...

Just posted my Ajax 101 talk on slideshare . I have given this talk in a number of venues starting in January 2006 with Adaptive Path in the...

So as the new year came round I start re-evaluating what it was I wanted to do at Yahoo! I have had an amazing 1.5 years here getting a chan...

New release of carousel. More documentation, better runtime configuration support, methods that let you show, hide and recalculate size. Che...