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I was in Seattle for Yaris works which was hosted to promote Toyota’s Yaris. We had a Podcast Clinic session. We had a good time. (check out some pix I took) The guys from bands for fans were there and giving lots of feedback. We ended up having lunch together. Awesome peeps. Brent dropped by and gave us support as well. Thanks B.

Usability for Rich Internet Apps

Highly functional and responsive interfaces have long been crafted for the desktop, but bringing that same richness to the web is a still-maturing proficiency for both designers and engineers. In this talk, Nate will share lessons he’s learned from focusing on this specific issue within Yahoo!, and from helping to create the open-source Yahoo! User Interface Library. In particular, he’ll discuss the importance of moving beyond “implementation model” to “mental model”, important new instruments for communicating today’s more complex requirements such as “interesting moment’s matrices”, and a sane approach to creating the toolkits that make it all possible.

speaker: nate koechley

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/

Mobile Development Panel

Thursday, July 20, 4:30 pm 5:30 pm
Category: Mobile/iTV/PDA

Mobile promises to be the next frontier of the web, but to web developers at first glance it looks to be a nightmare. With hundreds of browsers, devices and a battle in standards, how do you even get started?

In this roundtable discussion with pioneers and experts in mobile design and development, we will openly discuss the challenges of mobile, help get you up to speed with what is taking place in the industry and provide some tips and tricks to help you get started in mobile.
Speakers:
Brian Fling
Kelly Goto
Gavin Lew

Thursday, July 20, 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm
Category: Trending Issues

A language of interaction has been opened to the community: the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/index.php. Its goal is to share a vocabulary around designing for engagement. It informs the newest areas of design within Yahoo! and provides a home for sharing the best design and code solutions with the community at large.

Patterns are optimal solutions to common problems. As common problems are tossed around a community and are resolved, common solutions often spontaneously emerge. Eventually, the best of these rise above the din and self-identify and become refined until they reach the status of a Design Pattern.

Design patterns are a nice concept, but how do they fare in the real world? This session will also draw lessons and pose questions based on the experience of that eBay’s User Experience & …

Designing for Social Sharing

Thursday, July 20, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Category: Design

In recent months, a term that has become increasingly popular is “social search”. In this talk, I will argue that we should be designing for social sharing instead of for social search. In order for Page-Rank based search to work, we need people to create hyperlinks to web documents that they feel like linking to. Similarly, in order for social search to work, we need people to share their information, media, opinions and preferences. I will discuss tagging systems such as Flickr & del.icio.us, and media sharing sites such as YouTube as models for the design of participatory systems.

I will discuss three trends that designers working with such systems should think about. First of all the web has evolved from its geeky roots and become a social sphere for …