As part of my leadership course at UC Berkeley I recently took a hybrid self-assessment, facilitated by CPP, which combines the power of Myers-Briggs’ MBTI with a less well known assessment called FIRO-B. First introduced by William Schutz in 1958, the Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation (FIRO), analyzes the dimensions of Inclusion, Control and Affection. It…
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I’m (still) hiring
eBay’s growing its User Experience organization and so my team and others will continue to hire over the coming months. It’s an incredible opportunity to help make the unique eBay experience even more engaging and easy to use. Here’s what I’m looking for: Sr. Information Architect / UI Designer UI Designer – Browsing and Search…
eBay’s new browser policy
Matt Carey, eBay’s CTO, announced today a new browser policy for eBay.com which focuses support on the most modern of web browsers (accounting for 95% adoption). This means that eBay will focus on: Microsoft IE 6.0 and higher Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and higher (including my favorite variant Flock) Apple Safari 2.0 This is a big…
Berkeley MBA moves up to #8 in BusinessWeek
On the heals of the Berkeley MBA’s rise in the WSJ ranking (to #5), the Haas School’s ranking moved up to #8, from #17 last year, in the annual BusinessWeek ranking. The combination of a small class, exceptional faculty, and a collegial atmosphere impressed students. Recruiters, meanwhile, were wowed by the quality of the grads….
Designing Beyond Utility
I’ve been thinking recently about what engages people online to spend time on various web sites. People come to eBay for the thril of the auction, the high of winning. YouTube is famous for entertaining people. I believe that as a designer, we must think beyond the utility of our experiences and consider the other…
New shopping site, DoorOne
Shopping.com launched today a new comparison shopping site called DoorOne in the UK, France, Germany and Austrailia. It’s reported that this was due to the Shopping.X namespace being unavailable in all markets. However this release is more than just a different URL as they have introduced a number of new features: Multiple selection of facets….
The next Edward Tufte?
Dan Roam visited eBay on Thursday to give a workshop on Visual Thinking. I thought I might learn how to produce better charts and diagrams but instead I got a whole new way to think about problems and visualizations. He gave countless examples of how you can discover great data often buried within a 40…
Berkeley MBA now ranked #5
UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business moved up to the top 5 of the WSJ’s annual ranking of MBA programs for 2006. The annual ranking results from polls of corporate recruiters rating M.B.A. programs on 21 criteria, including things like students’ problem-solving skills, the likelihood of finding “stars” at the schools, content of the school’s…
Vital Friends
I have to admit I’m a junkie for the Gallup Press line of business books and Tom Rath’s latest Vital Friends is no exception. Rath asserts that we all are motivated and deeply affected by the friends that we keep. They play a key role in how happy we are, whether we stay at our…
Postnatal Workout for Mom and Baby
To take a break from design and leadership, I wanted to share something from the father portion of my life. 🙂 My friend Kim Evans recently co-founded a company that produces a postnatal workout DVD for mom and baby. It’s called Fit + Giggles and is the perfect way to get fit and bond with…