Stefan Is...

Stefan Is... scrutinizing the user experience of Live Search (Episode 005)

Max — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:03:00 GMT

This was one of my most enjoyable talks with the team that brings you Live.com. This time, we dove into the User Experience and User Interface—topics I am personally intrigued by.

Have you ever wondered how we make our decisions? What we do to optimize speed and efficiency? Who do we test our ideas on? What the heck is the “Golden Triangle?”

These answers and more in this chat with Venkat… so dive in.

Stefan Is… researching the art (or is it Science?) of Search

Max — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:02:00 GMT

Believe it or not, Search is a relatively new technology. You probably perform a few searches a day… how satisfied are you with the results?

Stefan and I sat down with Martin, a Senior Product Manager on the Search team, to find out the process for improving search and where things may be trending. An interesting discussion with the slickest sticky-note you’ve seen today ;).

Stefan Is... diving into Live Search API 2.0 (Episode 003)

Max — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:45:00 GMT

You asked to go deeper, we listened. Stefan and I met with Roopali from the Live Search team.

We had a high-level discussion about the 2nd Pillar in project “Silk Road”: the Live Search API 2.0. This is the very same back end used for some little known websites… like Facebook, heard of it? ;)

We’ll circle back to Pillars 1 and 3 in future sessions, so stay tuned and keep on rockin’.

Stefan Is… an infinite scroll maaaaniac! (Episode 001)

Max — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:10:00 GMT

As this is Stefan’s first appearance on Channel 9, he explains a bit about what we’re going to do in this weekly series. If you want to skip ahead and get to the demo-goodness, check out 2:40 for some infinite scrolling mega-action.

For some quick background info, check out Stefan’s explanation of what’s going to happen in his transition from Channel 8 to Channel 9.

And if you want to try it out for yourself, well then this one’s for you.