Video of internal Yahoo UED brownbag on how their Design Pattern Library is maintained and has evolved.

Quoted: Well worth the time as a tutorial to patterns and how large orgs collaborate.

I like Yahoo! Answers' job description for this lead designer role.

Quoted:
Yahoo! Is looking for a Lead Designer for the Yahoo! Answers product. Our vision is to "Enrich people's lives by enabling them to Find, Use, Share, and Expand all Human Knowledge". We need a strong Design Lead, who can think strategically while executing with great eye for detail, to help us accomplish that vision. "Better Search through People" is one aspect of this vision, and Yahoo! Answers is a key product in this brand-new space. Yahoo! Answers is growing quickly to become the best place on the internet to show off what you know, and tap into other people's knowledge. This is a great opportunity to work on a product that impact millions of people and has the potential to change the way people use the internet. This is the perfect position for someone who likes to think big, but who also wants to be involved in the final execution of the product. Check out www.answers.yahoo.com, and a detailed job description at .... Please send any questions about this position and or resumes and portfolios to: ...

Yahoo's definition of the User Experience Design (UED) team and roles.

Quoted: User Experience Design (UED)
UED is the creative design center of Yahoo!. UED controls the visual presentation and interactive behavior of content and tools on the Yahoo! network. The people of UED are creative dreamers. They are artists. They are scientists. They are imaginative. UED brings solid, user-centered design practices to each and every step of the creative design process. Every thing that you see and use on the Yahoo! site is researched, conceived, planned and produced by those who work in UED. The roles are many and varied, and include interaction designers, visual designers, design managers, web developers, project managers, design researchers and producers. UED has one central goal: to create and deliver innovate, user-centered design solutions to products and services across the Yahoo! network.

Here's the Techcrunch version of the Bear Stearns Yahoo! presentation.

Quoted: There is a bit of buzz around the presentation Bear Stearns Internet analyst Robert Peck gave a couple of days ago. It recommends ...

Quoted: Bear Stearns Internet analyst Robert Peck today wrote a lengthy piece which contends Yahoo (YHOO) urgently needs to figure out a social networking strategy, or risk being marginalized in some of their businesses. He thinks Yahoo is going to have to buy or partner with one of the primary players. Peck says that Yahoo has held talks at various times with Facebook, Bebo, Friendster and MySpace, but that when it comes down to it, we think the price tag is the ultimate factor for a transaction to materialize. Isn't it always. Peck goes on to to build a financial model ...

Bear Stearns' presentation saying Yahoo should get into the social networking space.

Some good market theories in here.

Quoted: “What Should Yahoo! Do Regarding Social Networks?". yahoo facebook

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Case study by Erin Malone on implementing the Yahoo! Pattern Library

The Yahoo! User Interface blog is a companion blog for two UI design/dev libraries. The Yahoo! Design Pattern Library offers their thinking on common interface design issues for traditional and rich Internet applications. The new Yahoo! User Interface Lib