Perhaps most surpising at Web 2.0 is the focus on hiring talent. I’ve had a half-dozen conversations with people yearning to learn where eBay is finding good UI Design talent. It is clear to me that the demand curve for UI Designers is far outstripping the Bay Area’s supply curve (to reference my current econ…
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Thoughts on hiring and talent in a Web 2.0 world
Perhaps most surpising at Web 2.0 is the focus on hiring talent. I’ve had a half-dozen conversations with people yearning to learn where eBay is finding good UI Design talent. It is clear to me that the demand curve for UI Designers is far outstripping the Bay Area’s supply curve (to reference my current econ…
New companies launched today
With so many companies launching at Web 2.0 here are few tidbits I took from the 6 minute demos they did. Also gave each an interestingness rating in stars. SocialText, Ross Mayfield (***) look at case study of intranet wiki Wikiwyg.net (GUI Rich Text Editor) Synchroedit.com (sharable editing interface) Mention “web2con” at socialtext and get…
New companies launched today
With so many companies launching at Web 2.0 here are few tidbits I took from the 6 minute demos they did. Also gave each an interestingness rating in stars. SocialText, Ross Mayfield (***) look at case study of intranet wiki Wikiwyg.net (GUI Rich Text Editor) Synchroedit.com (sharable editing interface) Mention “web2con” at socialtext and get…
Is Tagging ready for primetime?
I attended a panel discussion at Web 2.0 on tagging with Caterina Fake (Flickr/Yahoo!), and Jeff Veen (Adaptive Path), Joshua Schachter (del.icio.us), and Tantek Çelik (Technorati). A few things jumped out at me: Jeff Veen gave a great example at how tagging is actually easier than folder management. Folders are difficult to keep up with…
Is Tagging ready for primetime?
I attended a panel discussion at Web 2.0 on tagging with Caterina Fake (Flickr/Yahoo!), and Jeff Veen (Adaptive Path), Joshua Schachter (del.icio.us), and Tantek Çelik (Technorati). A few things jumped out at me: Jeff Veen gave a great example at how tagging is actually easier than folder management. Folders are difficult to keep up with…
College Student
There are different ways of going through college and many use financial solutions like the ones at SoFi. If уоu’rе a new college student you mау not уеt have mоnеу рrоblеmѕ оr іѕѕuеѕ—but most соllеgе students ѕооn dо. It doesn’t matter whеthеr уоu’rе a “trаdіtіоnаl” соllеgе student enrolled in соllеgе juѕt аftеr hіgh ѕсhооl оr…
Off to Web 2.0 tomorrow…
I’ll post my thoughts tomorrow as I react to the workshops and sessions here.
Hello
Today I’ve decided to enter the blogosphere. My name is Preston Smalley, I’m located in the San Francisco Bay Area, work as UI Design Manager at eBay and am a MBA Candidate at the Haas School of Business (Class of 2008). I’ll use this space to comment on the search industry, design trends and their…
New Way to Shop on eBay
I helped drive forward a program of user experience changes to our search products during 2005. The first of which launched in May 2005 as the alpha test for a “New way to Shop on eBay”. In addition to general simplification of the Finding UI, it introduced the following improvements: Multi-faceted browsing (e.g. search by…