UXDesignCast 10 - Kevin Bury on Yahoo! & LinkedIn
June 20th, 2008 — karelvredenburgKevin Bury is Principal Interaction Designer at LinkedIn and was previously Director, User Experience Design, at Yahoo! where he managed a team of designers responsible for all of Yahoo’s “Front Door” products - including the Yahoo! Front Page (www.yahoo.com), My Yahoo! (www.my.yahoo.com), Yahoo! Buzz (www.buzz.yahoo.com), and Yahoo! Glue. Kevin describes his roles at LinkedIn and Yahoo!, characterizes the type of User Experience Design approaches used at both companies, and shares the design work he is most proud of over his long and distinguished career. Kevin and Karel discuss the importance of a design culture in companies, the trend toward the realization of the importance of the business value of design, and the benefits and challenges of designing in a Web 2.0 world. Kevin shares his insights on the most important skills that designers should have in order to be successful in commercial design. He also describes how he keeps up on new developments in discipline and technology directions. Kevin naturally has a profile on LinkedIn and he also has a blog at kevinbury.com.
