Yahoo! Breaking News Widget

Roles: Functional Specifications, Visual & Interaction Design, Architecture, Prototyper, engineering lead

Wrote the initial functional specification for the widget.
Wrote the tehcnical design for the widget and sought approval with architects who previoulsy thought the feature could not be delivered at the cross-network scale.
Did the visual and interaction design while design resources were depleated.
Built the initial prototype.
Guided the code design for the cache as well as front-end implementation.
Faux-real-time widget interacts with the browser by polling. If an event happens, the widget "shimmies" from the side of the browser. Subsequent page views during the event feature the widget closed. If user minimizes the widget, it shows in closed state for the duration of the news event.