{"id":122,"date":"2006-01-31T05:40:59","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T00:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2009-06-08T05:41:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T00:41:57","slug":"yahoo-design-group-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/yahoo-design-group-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo! Design Group Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Ideacodes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ideacodes.com\/\">We<\/a> had the wonderful opportunity to attend an informal dinner on Monday night here in SF with the <a title=\"Yahoo!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\">Yahoo!<\/a> design group and a mix of fellow designers, developers, and even some HCI and usability legends.<\/p>\n<p>On the Yahoo-side, I had the pleasure of meeting <a title=\"Larry Tesler,\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Larry_Tesler\">Larry Tesler,<\/a> VP of user experience and design, <a title=\"Havi Hoffman\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.360.yahoo.com\/blog-Koiy.8g5erBQbNe3hOk-\">Havi Hoffman<\/a>, Catalyst for Social Media Marketing, Joy Mountford (founder of Apple&#8217;s International Interface Design Project), Kevin Cheng and Tom Chi (the duo behind <a title=\"OK\/Cancel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ok-cancel.com\/\">OK\/Cancel<\/a>).  Kevin and I actually recognized each other from the &#8220;people radar&#8221; on <a href=\"http:\/\/beta.plazes.com\/home\/\">Plazes<\/a>. I also talked to <a title=\"Don Norman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nngroup.com\/\">Don Norman<\/a> and <a title=\"Jared Spool\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uie.com\/\">Jared Spool<\/a>, <a title=\"Peter Merholz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterme.com\/\">Peter Merholz<\/a> and <a title=\"Jeff Veen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.veen.com\/jeff\/\">Jeff Veen<\/a> of Adaptive Path, <a title=\"Thomas Vander Wal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infocloudsolutions.com\/\">Thomas Vander Wal<\/a> of InfoCloud Solutions, and Julie Stanford of <a title=\"Sliced Bread Design\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slicedbreaddesign.com\/\">Sliced Bread Design<\/a>.  The conversations mostly centered around new web applications &#8211; which ones we use, issues with various interfaces, what elements of local search and maps are working well and which aren&#8217;t, and how design and social applications are so inextricably linked.  I probably spent more time listening than talking, but it&#8217;s hard not to when surrounded by some of the great brains of web design and user experience.  Thanks to Yahoo for their hospitality. I look forward to more conversations and socializing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had the wonderful opportunity to attend an informal dinner on Monday night here in SF with the Yahoo! design group and a mix of fellow designers, developers, and even some HCI and usability legends. On the Yahoo-side, I had the pleasure of meeting Larry Tesler, VP of user experience and design, Havi Hoffman, Catalyst&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,54,55,58],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-design","tag-events","tag-tech","tag-yahoo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}