Looks Good, Works Well

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 update on my honest impressions about PayPal. Here are my take-aways. #1 PayPal is positioned like no other company to change the

I am constantly talking about creating a "shared understanding [http://52weeksofux.com/post/2403607066/building-a-shared-understanding]" between design and engineering. And I love it when I find a book or resource that creates more bridges across these two worlds. Eric Freeman & Elisabeth Robson have done the community a

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' being on my twitter profile, facebook profile, blogger profile, linkedin profile, etc. I also tweeted it and updated my status that I had

I am excited to be part of UI Engineering's upcoming User Interface 16 Conference [http://www.uie.com/events/uiconf/2011/] in Boston. The full event is November 7-9th and will be held at the beautiful Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel [http://www.uie.com/events/uiconf/2011/venue/

How about it? Want to work at Netflix? If you have strong user interface engineering skills coupled with solid computer science skills then my latest opening may be just the fit for you. The ECommerce Team at Netflix is responsible for all member account & profile experiences (including help). It&

Lots of interesting technical stuff happening to get movies to your living room, mobile devices & browser. You can read about the technical side at techblog.netflix.com [http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/netflix-tech-blog.html].

Michael Hart [http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2009/08/28/interview-with-michael-hart-director-of-engineering-at-netflix/] is now leading a new Social Systems Engineering Team here at Netflix. He has a couple of immediate openings [http://jobs.netflix.com/DetailFlix.asp?jobid=flix4362]. Here is a partial from the job description:Netflix is the leading online movie

I am back at Netflix! I am hiring (naturally). I am specifically looking for some talented user interface engineers to join my team. My team builds the experience for acquiring new members. We are at a critical phase as we expand internationally while supporting a wide range of devices. You

Commonly I just want to grab a screenshot or wireframe and annotate it and share it with others for commenting on. If you are snapping, annotating & sharing something that has a public URL then BounceApp [http://www.bounceapp.com/] by the Zurb [http://zurb.com] guys is pretty cool.

I love the folks at Togetherville [http://togetherville.com]. They are the "facebook for kids". Mandeep Dhillon and the team are passionate about a safe, fun environment for kids to engage with one another. Here's a great opportunity! How about joining their team as an interaction

In our book [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596516258?ie=UTF8&tag=looksgoodwork-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0596516258] and often in our [http://www.slideshare.net/billwscott] talks [http://www.slideshare.net/theresaneil] we discuss a technique for thinking through and

A couple of months back Theresa Neil [http://theresaneil.wordpress.com] & I filmed a combined workshop on the material from Designing Web Interfaces [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596516258?ie=UTF8&tag=looksgoodwork-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0596516258] plus Theresa&

At the last Web App Masters Tour [http://www.uie.com/events/web_app_masters/] Luke Wroblewski [http://lukew.com/] gave a great talk on Forms in Action [http://www.lukew.com/presos/preso.asp?20] (quick plug -- you can hear him again in Minneapolis [http://www.uie.com/

Had a great time last night presenting at CHIFOO in Portland [http://www.chifoo.org/]. Lovely facility at the White Stag Block, University of Oregon. Thanks Leo Frishberg [http://www.linkedin.com/in/leofrish] for the wonderful hospitality. This was the first time I have given a talk on design

Looking forward to a quick jaunt up to Portland tomorrow and back home again Thursday morning. This is my week between Netflix and Meebo and it has actually shaped up to be quite busy. But I am excited to be giving a new talk on Lenses [http://designingwithlenses.com]. Since

A design lens allows you to view your user experience design from the perspective of a single design principle. Lenses were originally created for game design [http://artofgamedesign.com/cards/] but are just as powerful for user experience design. I recently started documenting lenses that I find useful on a

I met Chet [http://graphics-geek.blogspot.com/] at the 360|Flex conference [http://www.360flex.com/]. We were on a panel together and talked about the UX of animation. Chet works on the Flex SDK especially focused on the animation/transition parts of the toolkit. Romain works on the UI

I am excited to be part of the Web App Masters Tour [http://www.uie.com/events/web_app_masters/] that kicks off in San Diego [http://www.uie.com/events/web_app_masters/san_diego/] next week, then heads eastward to Minneapolis [http://www.uie.com/events/web_app_

As of today 3/8/10 I am actively looking for two more user interface engineers to join my team. (I filled the previous posting [yanni-yet-another-ninja-needed-immediately] with 2 engineers!) Since late last year we have expanded the number of user interface engineers working on new, upcoming TV experiences. What is

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/designingwebinterfaces/collections/72157623438940425/] I culled numerous screenshots from the video posted on Engadget in their article: Microsoft's Courier Digital Journal [http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/microsofts-courier-digital-journal-exclusive-pictures-and-de/] and have organized these into 17 sets on my Designing Web Interfaces flickr site [http:

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/designingwebinterfaces/collections/72157623252108597/] To familiarize myself with the iPad UX interactions I studied the Steve Job's video [http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1001q3f8hhr/event/index.html] as well as Luke Wroblewski [http://lukew.com/]'s post on the various multi-touch patterns

UPDATE! I have hired 2 Engineers! So this role is filled. However, I have another opportunity... read it here [http://bit.ly/9fS1PF]. Another new opportunity at Netflix as of today (1/4/2010)! But if you are interested please contact me at the email shown on the t-shirt. You

Nice list [http://bit.ly/7Pf8i8] from my co-author [http://designgenie.org] and cohort in design. Now I need to get my list together. But over half are on my list as well. [http://bit.ly/7Pf8i8]

Ok, so this role does not report to me but reports into our excellent Customer Service Engineering organization. The engineering effort is for an internal application suite and not for the main web site. The role actually touches a lot more technologies than the main web site does and is

Speaking tomorrow at the Rich Web Experience [http://www.therichwebexperience.com] in Orlando, Fl. I fly out tonight at midnight. Arrive at 10am, speak at 4pm. I promise to get some sleep on the plane so that I will be fresh for the talk! Fly out on Thurs evening. So