Yahoo! Search with Voice

Sr. Product Lead Designer

KEY TAKEAWAY

Launched the Yahoo! Search with Voice innovation at the CTIA Conference in Las Vegas, demonstrating mobile technology leadership.

about

Yahoo! oneSearch with Voice is a mobile application in collaboration and powered by Vlingo. This new voice application enables users to search the web by speaking into their mobile device. It targets users who are on the go. For example, users may search for weather, flight numbers, sport results, local restaurants or businesses and everything else. Since adding voice, it has demonstrated the ability to increase the number of average searches per user by over 35% across the same mobile device models.

The application is designed exclusively for Blackberry and it is one of the first Yahoo! mobile with voice product launched at CTIA, Las Vegas, 2008.

Role & Responsibilities
I am the lead designer assigned to this project working closely with the product executive team, and developer team members. My responsibilities includes creating the product branding, icons, icon animation, user interface design and user flows. In preparation for Yahoo’s product showcase in Las Vegas, I have also designed digital promotional media kits for technology bloggers, web publishers and for Yahoo!’s major product launch event.

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Yahoo oneSearch with voice demo at CommunicAsia, 2008.

 

Yahoo oneSearch with voice demo at CTIA, Las Vegas, 2008.

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT JET AT YAHOO!

Jet is a pleasure to work with as has been a wonderful and talented designer on our Yahoo! Weather for Android team. He brings a lot of energy and ideas to a project and expediently delivers great designs and assets.

Jet has the tenacity to jump into a project at any stage and with high risks, as supported by a fond memory of his work-marathon during the famed Yahoo! Hack Days (24 hour product innovation marathon) to work on our Weather team. The result - we won amongst 80+ other teams. Any team would be stronger for having such a strong design contributor.

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