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September 20, 2004

Meet the Yahoo!'s

I started working at Yahoo! in July and as with any new job, getting to know everyone can take a while. So when I was approached to start the "Y! People Profile" posts for this blog, I jumped at the chance to learn the organization while getting to know all the interesting and quirky people I see in the halls.

In the coming weeks, I'll introduce you to some of the folks here on the search team as well as others from across the company. You'll meet everyone from designers to researchers, to engineers and product managers. I'll post my interviews here so you can get to know them the same time as I do.

I am planning to focus on how they're thinking about search, but I'll ask them everything from the serious to the silly so you can see who they are on and off the Yahoo! campus (yes, some of us actually have lives outside of Yahoo!).

My first profile will be Paulien Strijland, Head of User Experience and Design for Yahoo! Search & Marketplace. Paulien hails from the Netherlands and has spent the better part of 15 years at Apple, PayPal and NetFlip.

I'm sitting down with Paulien shortly so if there is anything you'd like me to ask, post a comment and I'll try to throw it her way.

'til then....

Yvette Irvin
Y! Profiler (and In-Product Marketer)

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Comments

I have just one suggestion..
you shall add date of cached page in search results....(or when u click on "cached" link)

it will help a lot..

Thanks
Deep

Posted by: Deep | September 21, 2004 11:14 AM

Yahoo Search pages seem much more complex than the spartan Google interface. Why is this the case?

Posted by: Shallow | September 21, 2004 02:27 PM

Why'd you change the default number of search results per page to 10?

Posted by: Roger | September 21, 2004 02:29 PM

You have SPONSOR RESULTS on the top, bottom and right side of the page. Why so many?

Posted by: Sammy | September 21, 2004 02:46 PM

What is Paulien's take on the "search workspace" stype UI that both A9 and AskJeeves seem to be building?

Posted by: Jeremy Zawodny | September 21, 2004 03:04 PM

got a q for you: compared to your experiences at apple (under herot?), how do you think about UI in the face of advertising's physical burden on visual design elements - versus the freedom one might enjoy when only dealing with the application and end user interactions (not like that's easier, but far less visual clutter)

what i mean is, how far down the road are you looking - are you always able to get your arms around the 'nature' of visual advertising as it will interfere with or effect user interaction and does this influence your design goals, and drive a change in UI planning that gets all the way to the lower levels of the application? am i rambling? yeah...i am ;)

Posted by: dave | September 21, 2004 07:17 PM

Could you ask her something about the mix between job and family managment?

thanx,
silvia

Posted by: Silvia | September 23, 2004 07:36 AM

Hey

I agree with what you're saying. Thanks for sharing the info with us.

Posted by: webcam | March 3, 2005 02:14 AM