<![CDATA[No Joy in Yahoo's design group - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[No Joy in Yahoo's design group - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[No Joy in Yahoo's design group]]> Joy did not lead design for the yahoo.com redesign. she was simply a manager who spent most of her time trying to get her email to work.

yahooyahoo

]]> <![CDATA[No Joy in Yahoo's design group]]> From my own work with Joy I understood her UI analyses and improvements made significant increases to Yahoo's profitability AND usability.

lightshadow

]]> <![CDATA[No Joy in Yahoo's design group]]> as a fmr yhr I can tell you that in general the employees are treated very well. they sent me to europe for a couple of years then laid me off gracefully when I was ready to go.

call it what you will, they were a great company at which to work. ymmv.

frmryhoo

]]> <![CDATA[No Joy in Yahoo's design group]]> Joy Mountford has contributed more to the technology that has made this valley famous than most could fathom. Innovation drives technology and she is all about innovation. Yahoo's loss. Another company's gain.

schweigend

]]> <![CDATA[No Joy in Yahoo's design group]]> While her title might lead those to believe she should have contributed to certain redesigns like the new Y! front page - my sources state thate she mostly talked in the clouds and nevr drove much in design that actually made it out into production

valleyobserver

]]> <![CDATA[No Joy in Yahoo's design group]]> After speaking with some Yahoo!'s, the layoffs are not that bad. Some people are not being laid off until Q2 2009! Some teams are starting in Q4 of this year. That's plenty of time to look for another job! Hmmm, I wonder how productive these people will be all the while thinking that there last day is a year or more away! A nice place to come and get a paycheck for a year and then a little bonus at the end too! Can I please have some of that!

Hardly the doom and gloom that we thought it was.

TheGunslinger

]]> <![CDATA[No Joy in Yahoo's design group]]> I don't think it's that bad. Then again, I've been using Yahoo Japan.

jamar0303

]]> <![CDATA[No Joy in Yahoo's design group]]> I agree with what WYMEA wrote. Yahoo has the worst interface design template ever, and inconsistency is the corporate design motto. What the hell is she doing all these time along with the other incompetent VP of UED: Larry Testler who also should be chopped! No leadership, then step aside.

Edinburgh

]]> <![CDATA[No Joy in Yahoo's design group]]> re: "She did everything, in short, except contribute visibly to shipping a product of consequence."

she led the design effort of the current yahoo! homepage. some people might count that as a product of consequence.

while i'm at it, i'm a google fan, but it isn't exactly a bastion of inspired graphic design, or particularly smart UI design.

randyscott

]]> <![CDATA[No Joy in Yahoo's design group]]> Yahoo has a design group? Yahoo has always been a museum of bad web interfaces splashed with trashy ads and uninspiring graphic design. Google looks better just in its plainness.

wymea

]]> <![CDATA[No Joy in Yahoo's design group]]> Joy was a visionary leader. Yahoo will be at a great loss without her.

jennylc

]]> <![CDATA[No Joy in Yahoo's design group]]> And so the work environment for young men at Yahoo! became just a little bit safer.

Snarkotron

]]> <![CDATA[No Joy in Yahoo's design group]]> My G-d, talk a promising career gone bad out of the gate.

abmw

]]> <![CDATA[No Joy in Yahoo's design group]]> Joy made excellent contributions to UI in Yahoo products, particularly the front page redesign/simplification.
A pity you didn't bother to ask any of your sources about this. Snarky as usual.

unaballmer

]]> <![CDATA[No Joy in Yahoo's design group]]> UI is important... Unfortunately it's one of those things that isn't appreciated until it's sorely needed. At the same time, there is a trend towards hippy-dippyness among UI experts and it sounds like she had a lot of it. Hopefully good UI will survive.

snidleywhiplash

]]> <![CDATA[No Joy in Yahoo's design group]]> You know who they should lay off? The PM that built the Yahoo Music Engine. It's one thing not to ship a product, it's another thing to ship an atrocity like that.

Long live iTunes.

Hopeless

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