Yahoo! User Interface Library

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Yahoo! User Interface Library
Nate Koechley _at_ Oracle User Experience April
17th, 2006
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changing seasons
on the web
http//flickr.com/photos/getthebubbles/107463768/
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Web 1.0 Browser as Paper
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Web 2.0 Browser As Platform
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A Dramatic Transition
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People expect less online.
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But we are online
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and tied to the browser.
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So we must level the playing field.
http//www.flickr.com/photos/probek/44480413/
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how?
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it takes 2 things
http//flickr.com/photos/latitudes/104286031/
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We mustimprove our technology
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(we need a robust platform!)
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andraise expectations
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(so users are confident!)
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Nuts and Bolts
http//flickr.com/photos/snood/129758197/
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Six commitments to the platform
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1 Meet properties where they are today.
Facilitate incremental enhancement(Transitional
Internet Applications)
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2 Provide a broad, inclusive platform for Web
2.0s Rich Internet Application development(a
la carte, not framework)
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3 Extensible and adaptive, to meet the needs of
our diverse product portfolio(lots of different
contexts)
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4 Support all A-grade browsers an evolving and
still demanding challenge(Graded Browser
Support)
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5 Scale to Yahoo!s scale and scope (industrial
grade)
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6 Be responsive and accountable to our community
of designers and engineers(your P1s are our P1s)
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DESIGN
DEVEL
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design
from Implementation Models
to Mental Models
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development
from Heterogeneous Environments
to Compelling and Consistent APIs
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Alan Coopers GUI design canon
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idioms
AutoComplete
compounds
DHTML Windowing
Drag Drop
Animation
primitives
Connection Manager (Ajax)
Event Utility
Dom Collection
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Note! Good experiences arent plugged in
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they are crafted by thinking about people, NOT
technology
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Developers can provide powerful primitives and
compounds
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but designers create idioms and love
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but designers create idioms and love
setting it free
http//www.flickr.com/photos/ck3/98186198/
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2/06
YUI Library Open Source Release Released on YDN
under wide-open BSD license
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2/06
YUI Library Open Source Release Released on YDN
under wide-open BSD license
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2/06
YUI Library Open Source Release Released on YDN
under wide-open BSD license

• Good press from key influencers WaSP, DOM
  Scripting Task Force, OReilly Radar, Slashdot,
  Boing Boing, many more
• Top entry on delicious, high profile on
  Technorati
• Exponential spike in YDN traffic during release
• gt36K downloads of library in first two weeks
• YDN-javascript group membership 1000

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Graded Browser Support

• 3 Grades of Browser Support
• A-grade support (advanced support)
• C-grade support (core support)
• X-grade support (the X-Factor)
• http//developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/gbs/gbs.ht
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The Seasons Are Changing