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My team in PayPal Austin is hiring. We are looking for user interface engineers that can span the stack from node.js up to backbone.js. As p...

In a most unlikely place. We have unleashed the Kraken.

I have discussed in the past that we have been on a mission to change the culture, technology, process and experiences at PayPal. 15 months...

Don't judge a book by it's cover (or it's website ... or it's poster ). Especially true in this situation. David Agan...

One of the first things I did when I joined PayPal was rename the "webdev" to "User Interface Engineering". Now while th...

Started keeping a list of these tools. No particular order. Creately http://creately.com/ Axure RP http://axure.com/ InVisio...

I really enjoy Silicon Valley Code Camp . Lots of speakers, lots of local attendees. Very informal and always a good crowd. No different tod...

Coaching teams here at PayPal on what it takes to operate like in a LeanUX manner. I have typically boiled it down to just 3 key principles....

This is an over-simplified view. But I was thinking about what really matters to frontend engineers in their jobs (besides money). It mat...

I am excited to share that we are formalizing the already ongoing effort at PayPal in Accessibility by forming an official Accessibility tea...

Just one of the many places we are upping the game at PayPal is in our developer experiences. A few months back PayPal formed an Application...

I have blogged a little in the past as to why I came to PayPal . Today I want to talk about why you should come to PayPal to work with me. ...

I am reading the excellent book Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about our Everyday Deceptions . In discussing how...

Thanks to John Foliot  for putting on an excellent Open Web Camp. It was especially great as we got to host here at PayPal at our Town Hall ...

We are going full bore on LeanUX at PayPal. This presentation just captures a lot of cautions for our teams. These anti-patterns call out ba...

Welcome aboard Doug! Stoked to be working with you again :-) Interested in where PayPal is headed in the world of Javascript/User Inter...

Designing for Reusability Code reuse has been a major concern of mine throughout my career. I graduated with a computer science degree...

The last three months have been a blur. The last blog I posted was right before joining PayPal. So I thought it would be good to give an upd...

I am constantly talking about creating a " shared understanding " between design and engineering. And I love it when I find a book...

Elsewhere I have updated my bio to reflect my new job as head of web development for PayPal (which starts on 10/24). The 'elsewheres...