Hiring! Sr. Web Flash UI Engineer - Interactive TV Position * UPDATE: POSITION FILLED. Thanks everyone for your help! * I am looking for a top-notch ActionScript developer to join my Web UI Engineering team. The special emphasis is building interactive experiences for the television. In particular experience with developing FlashLite for embedded devices along with a solid engineering background is needed.
Talk: Video Available - Interactive Prototyping with DHTML (Mix 09) The video [http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/C14F] for my Interactive Prototyping with DHTML [talk-interactive-prototyping-with-dhtml-mix-09] from Mix 09 [http://visitmix.com/] is available for my prototyping talk. [http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/C14F] You can also find all of the Mix 09 videos online [http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/] as
Sr. Web UI Engineer for Netflix Site - Still Open! NOTE: This position is filled! I am of course happy to announce [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/power_hacker_kent_brewster_leaves_yahoo_for_netfli.php] that Kent Brewster [http://kentbrewster.com/] will be joining my team working directly with Michael Hart [http://www.thesocialweb.tv/blog/2008/10/episode-12-netf.
Talk: Interactive Prototyping with DHTML (Mix 09) Gave a new talk this morning at Mix 09 [http://live.visitmix.com/Default.aspx] here in Las Vegas. It seemed to resonate with the crowd so sharing it hopes that others find it helpful in their practice. Interactive Prototyping with DHTML [https://www.slideshare.net/billwscott/interactive-prototyping-with-dhtml] from Bill
Hiring! Creative Director UX @ Netflix We are looking for a Creative Director for our UX team! Are you the right person? Do you know someone who is? This is an amazing opportunity to lead an incredible team of designers and work in one of the best places to work [http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Netflix-Reviews-E11891.
O'Reilly Webcast Video & Audio: Designing Web Interfaces I have been having trouble getting my audio synced to the slideshare version [http://www.slideshare.net/billwscott/designing-web-interfaces-book-oreilly-webcast] of my O'Reilly Webcast. Hoping that the good folks of slideshare [http://slideshare.net] can help me figure out an easy way to get it going. In the meanwhile,
Interview: What Developers Wish Designers Understood Lou Rosenfeld interviewed me [http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/announcements/2009/02/future_practice_interview_bill.php] on the topic "Bringing Design to Life: What Every Designer Should Know About Interface Engineering". This is a really interesting subject and gets to the heart of how to get engineering and
Oodles of Screencasts Available for Designing Web Interfaces Book Last Friday night I uploaded about 390 interaction movies (screencasts). I have been collecting examples (good and bad) that illustrate various patterns and finally took the time to get them out on the Flickr Designing Web Interfaces [http://flickr.com/photos/designingwebinterfaces/collections/72157611425349742/] site. Details can be found on
O'Reilly Designing Web Interfaces Webcast Available I presented Designing Web Interfaces on the O'Reilly Webcast [http://oreilly.com/emails/webcast-webinterfaces.html] today. Almost 1400 people signed up and the actual attendance hit 862. We set the record for an O'Reilly webcast :-) And we had overwhelmingly positive responses to the talk. If
Netflix Sr. Web UI Engineering Position - Open Feb. 2 2009 NOTE: This position is filled href="http://jobs.netflix.com/DetailFlix.asp?flix2716">Netflix - Sr. Web UI Engineer As the new year has rolled around we realize that there are so many things happening and in the works that it makes sense to add a Sr.
Two Upcoming Webcasts On Tues, Feb. 3rd I will be presenting a short talk on Designing Web Interfaces as a webcast for O'Reilly [http://oreilly.com/emails/webcast-webinterfaces.html] . This talk is free and space is limited (and filling up fast), so if you are interested sign up now. And a
Designing Web Interfaces Book Site and Flickr Companion Site Live [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596516258?ie=UTF8&tag=looksgoodwork-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0596516258] I am happy to announce that the two companion sites to my book are now live. designingwebinterfaces.com [http://designingwebinterfaces.com/] is the companion book site
Upcoming Talk: Bringing Design to Life (Rosenfeld Future Practices Webinar) - Feb 26th [http://flickr.com/photos/dharmasphere/125138024/]I am excited about a new online seminar that I will be giving Bringing Design to Life: What Every Designer Should Know about Interface Engineering [http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/webinars/interface-engineering/]. This is part of the Rosenfeld Future Practice Webinars [http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/
Update: Designing Web Interfaces Book Available for Pre-Order [http://billwscott.com/files/bookcover.jpg]In an earlier post I mentioned our upcoming O'Reilly book, Designing Web Interfaces [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596516258?ie=UTF8&tag=looksgoodwork-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0596516258] that I coauthored with Theresa
Sr. Web UI Engineer for Customer Service Engineering ** Update: Position Filled! ** [http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3203/2790347081_cefbbcfebc_m.jpg]We recently filled the position [still-hiring] I posted earlier. I now have a new position to fill -- Sr. Web UI Engineer for Customer Service Engineering [http://jobs.netflix.com/DetailFlix.asp?flix2417]. In this role you
Designing Web Interaces Talk (Ajax World) Slides from Ajax World talk [http://ajaxworld.com/event/session/30]: Designing Web Interfaces [https://www.slideshare.net/billwscott/designing-web-interfaces-presentation] from Bill Scott [http://www.slideshare.net/billwscott]
Update: Yahoo! Account Fixed or "The Awful Face of Customer Service" As noted [update-3-year-old-server-error-yahoo-says-is-definitely-the-problem-with-my-account] before [three-year-old-server-error-haunts-my-yahoo-account-d] I was having trouble with my Y! id. My alias account (that I give out most frequently) no longer worked. As I mentioned my experience with emailing Yahoo! was really bad. Canned messages saying the same thing no matter what I wrote -- the only
YUI Carousel Component (2.6.0) UPDATE: My version of the Carousel for YUI is no longer supported as of the end of 2008 On October 1, 2008 Yahoo! announced the release of YUI 2.6.0 [http://yuiblog.com/blog/2008/10/01/yui-260/]. This release contained the official YUI Carousel component [http://developer.yahoo.
Ajax World Interview: Bringing Excellence to the Field of UI Engineering [http://gemsres.com/story/jul08/610468/ajax2008west_NEW.jpg]Jeremy Geelan [http://www.sys-con.com/author/3] over at Sys-Con interviewed me about the field of user interface design & engineering. You can find the interview here [http://ajax.sys-con.com/node/707013]. I will also be presenting at the
Yahoo! Front End Developer's Summit 2008 - Talk I had the wonderful privilege of giving a keynote today at Yahoo!'s Frontend Summit. Douglas Crockford [http://crockford.com/] gives the one for tomorrow. I took a stroll down memory lane talking about everything from slide rules to Wang Desktop Programmable Calculators [http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/wang600.html]
Update: 3 year old server error... Yahoo! says is definitely the problem with my account! Man, I was never on this side of Yahoo!'s customer service before. But it sure does hurt. After getting the previous response [three-year-old-server-error-haunts-my-yahoo-account-d] I patiently explained that it was not possible for a server error to be the culprit since the account in question is 3 years old.
Three Year Old Server Error Haunts My Yahoo! Account :-D Gotta love this. I have an email account that I have had for about 10 years. While at Yahoo! I jumped on the opportunity to create an alias (also known as a profile). When they allowed the 'period' character to be used in an email account I created
Netflix Public API Available I am proud to say that Netflix has just released its public APIs [http://developer.netflix.com/]. The API allows access to data for the catalog of 100,000 movie and TV episode titles. This includes DVD titles as as well as instant watch titles. Applications can request access to
Still Hiring My new T-Shirt from Zazzle [http://zazzle.com]. [http://jobs.netflix.com/DetailFlix.asp?flix2250] [http://jobs.netflix.com/DetailFlix.asp?flix2250] Interested?
New Job Opportunities Netflix - Sr. Web UI Engineer [http://jobs.netflix.com/DetailFlix.asp?flix2250] I recently filled a position for Sr. Web UI Engineer that I blogged about before [netflix-jobs-two-positions-open-42908]. But hey, we are hiring again. The description is the basically the same as the last position. You can read all