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The design team at Yahoo! Mail just launched a beta version of their redesign for 273 million worldwide users—more users than Gmail and Hotmail combined. Start-to-launch, they completed the redesign the Yahoo! Mail web app and native ...

Article - Beth Koloski - November 12, 2010 - 0 comments

The San Francisco Chronicle published an interesting article on Monday about how " Yahoo Labs has bolstered its ranks of social scientists, adding highly credentialed cognitive psychologists , economists and ethnographers from top universities ...

Article - Jonathan Anderson - January 13, 2010 - 1 comment

Due in part to Luke Wroblewski's work, the great divide between the business side and the design side of organizations is shrinking. What started out as an internal training course for a group of Yahoo! designers has since touched hundred ...

Article - Luke Wroblewski, UX Magazine Staff - December 08, 2009 - 8 comments

Yahoo! is opening up its search engine with BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service). This means that anyone can now tap into its search technology with nearly no restriction. Hakia and Me.dium are two of the early adopters. Article ...

Article - Alex Schleifer - July 13, 2008 - 2 comments

Has anyone else seen Yahoo’s rumored new logo? While I do like the re-thinking of the logo overall but I’m not sure messing with one of the web’s oldest and most recognizable brands is a great idea at this point. Maybe it’s just a ...

Article - Alex Schleifer - June 13, 2008 - 1 comment

Sun’s JRE6 install now comes with the Yahoo! Toolbar. We can’t get clear confirmation as to whether this is an entirely new deal but it’s a mistake either way. Surely, this is a misguided attempt at making money from a free download. The ...

Article - Alex Schleifer - June 06, 2008 - 13 comments

Say what you will about Yahoo!, they sure do a lot for the developer community. We’re loving their design pattern library for building slick wireframes in OmniGraffle, Visio or any program that imports images. Article No:  ...

Article - Alex Schleifer - June 04, 2008 - 1 comment

Oh, this could get ugly. The nasty back and forth between Yahoo! and Microsoft has just turned into a bit of a moshpit with Google and AOL . I personally think that an AOL/Yahoo! deal is more likely than an MSFT/Yahoo! one. Google gains either way bec ...

Article - Alex Schleifer - April 10, 2008 - 0 comments

A comparison of Yahoo and Google home pages from 1996-2005. An interesting quick view of differing approaches. Article No:  230 Authors:  ...

Article - Howard Mann - November 04, 2007 - 13 comments

UX Magazine is a huge Flickr fan so the news that Yahoo is planning to shut down Yahoo! Photos in favour of Flickr was greeted with much excitement. While Photos was nearly four times larger than Flickr, the latter is growing faster. Flickr is by far the ...

Article - Alex Schleifer - May 05, 2007 - 3 comments