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Yahoo's Entire Design Team Fired

portfolio.com — The entire design firm has been let go. The team had been working on next generation design projects. This week, more than 1,000 Yahoo employees have been let go, including the entire design team.

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  • sroop, on 02/16/2008, -4/+557Yahoo had a design team?
  • Senn, on 02/16/2008, -6/+418At this rate, Microsoft won't have anything left to buy...
  • ZeeshanHasan, on 02/16/2008, -21/+294One of the best Moves by Yahoo!
  • sjbdallas, on 02/16/2008, -7/+211Probably a good idea. Yahoo's design has really suffered the more features they've added. I stopped using it a few years ago because it had become so cumbersome.
  • shark72, on 02/16/2008, -4/+197The submitter, DigiDave, is a liar, and he's fooled lots of you.

    Headline of the actual article: Yahoo Design Innovation Team Axed
    (which then goes on to explain what the "Design Innovation Team" is... a pretty small group.)

    DigiDave's submission title: Yahoo's Entire Design Team Fired
    (note how he put in the word "entire" to fool you?)

    Buried as inaccurate.

    As gjokkel stated, they'll be snapped up by Google. It's just about four exits up 101.
  • dantsai, on 02/16/2008, -1/+162This is not the Yahoo design team, but their design innovation team. Big difference.
  • Kakcoo, on 02/16/2008, -3/+158Looks like Yahoo is stuck somewhere in the web 2.0 transition. Their page looks kinda like Macromedias homepage some years ago.
  • Debsuk, on 02/16/2008, -7/+101Pity MSN dont follow suit
  • LokitheComplex, on 02/16/2008, -3/+78Unless you worked there.
  • convergent, on 02/16/2008, -2/+70Seriously, it looks like instead of just working with all the designers to make a good website, they just blindly added what each designer wanted on the website...
  • accessviolation, on 02/16/2008, -7/+74You should see the new Yahoo Mail Beta. It's god-awful. It's what would happen if Outlook had a child with Satan.
  • KibibyteBrain, on 02/16/2008, -8/+57Thats the point. This is a pretty classic move, to cut expenses before a buyout to make the payout in the end all the sweeter. It's sort of the idea of a graduating high school senior who got into Yale not necessarily enrolling in the hardest classes possible for his last semester of prep school. Also Microsoft already has a design team, and probably wouldn't be interested in Yahoo!'s anyway. Still, this is pretty sad, I'd say this is a pretty tell-tale sign that Yahoo! is planning to sell to someone, soon.
  • binaryloop, on 02/16/2008, -12/+59Good. They needed to be fired for making the new "My Yahoo" and "Yahoo Mail" sites. I reverted back to the older versions because their new ***** didn't work. Fire the idiots who pick the stories for the front page too!
  • inactive, on 02/16/2008, -2/+48remember, LESS IS MORE!!!
  • Lacero, on 02/16/2008, -21/+67One thousand designers (?!!) yet their home page looks as cluttered as if one thousand monkeys designed it.
  • santaliqueur, on 02/16/2008, -0/+43Read the summary again, it's 1,000 employees, which includes the design team. Not 1,000 designers.
  • gjokkel, on 02/16/2008, -2/+43This is a huge step backwards. These guys were software designers helping to create Yahoo Pipes and other cool stuff. I think they have a new job at Google starting Monday. The only difference will be that they must use a different exit on Hwy 101.
  • aliguana, on 02/16/2008, -1/+30their design team tweaks and works on the various Yahoo sites. The design innovation team sits around, making beta sites that stick around for two months then vanish. Only the best bits make it into Yahoo production, which is handled by the actual design team. So they're doodlers, and the best doodles get given to the artists.
  • AmyWhere, on 02/16/2008, -1/+27Too bad they didn't fire the strategists instead. It isn't their design that's holding them back.
  • Scottievm, on 02/16/2008, -12/+37About time.
  • Frost9999, on 02/16/2008, -0/+23The 2nd floor engineer who modelled Yahoo after his own myspace account.
  • FatLoser, on 02/16/2008, -2/+25And then the anti-Christ (overused AJAX) had a beach orgy with Outlook and Satan.
  • solid12345, on 02/16/2008, -1/+24I didn't quite understand that advanced fonts jargon, what, is it helvetica that cooks you breakfast in the morning?
  • lex0nyc, on 02/16/2008, -1/+23Wrong how? Don't just shoot ideas down without any explanation, it makes you look like a tool.
  • AlpineR, on 02/16/2008, -1/+23"A font of design innovation" (from the article) does not mean "developing advanced fonts" (from your post).
  • scotticus, on 02/16/2008, -2/+24lick here ---> 8====D
  • TerrorByteX, on 02/16/2008, -1/+23Use this --> ,
  • miaow, on 02/16/2008, -4/+26how did they consistently come up with so much cluttery rubbish ?
  • Brad324, on 02/16/2008, -0/+21Yes... I could see the term "Microsoft Search" being used around the house often. "Hey Jonny, could you Microsoft Search me the number for that pizza store? I would like to purchase me some pizza, and Microsoft Search is clearly my search engine of preference"
  • modnar, on 02/16/2008, -5/+25I'm surprised it took them this long.
  • inactive, on 02/16/2008, -3/+22yea, its called R&D, without it, companies die.
  • Brad324, on 02/16/2008, -0/+18I saw that episode of mails gone wild - it was racy!
  • TheG2, on 02/16/2008, -0/+18And Kodak was one of the great camera and film manufacturers, doesn't mean that if you don't adapt fast enough you won't be left behind in the dust. Kodak failed to move digital fast enough, and Yahoo didn't scale fast enough for their viewer audience.
  • Brad324, on 02/16/2008, -1/+19You have associated voting for Obama with intrusive internet spam - congrats.
  • Awspire, on 02/16/2008, -0/+17Exactly. Their comment is like when someone posts a technical question in a forum, then later replies "I fixed it. nvmnd", without ever explaining how they resolved their problem.
  • inactive, on 02/16/2008, -0/+15:-P
  • TheCount, on 02/16/2008, -3/+18I, on the other hand, would like to know why you used "now" instead of "no".
  • shark72, on 02/16/2008, -1/+16It was the "Design Innovations Team," a pretty small group at Yahoo!. I think it was about four guys. They didn't work on the home page or any other production sites.

    "Entire design team" was just the submitter's little joke, to fool people into thinking that, well, Yahoo!'s entire design team was let go.
  • scoot2006, on 02/16/2008, -4/+18Yeah, cause we all know MS has the best designs...........
  • LordMaul, on 02/16/2008, -1/+14Didn't you hear? They've been developing some of the most groundbreaking design elements the internet has seen since moving away from simple, single-page html sites. The stuff they were working on would rock the design world...Yahoo was going to, in essence, make you their bitch. Unfortunately, after attending a seminar lectured by such important industry leaders as the 3D Realms design team, no one has seen any of the work they've been doing for the past decade or so, leaving the design job up to the 2nd floor maintenance engineer.
  • aliguana, on 02/16/2008, -2/+14MSN should hire Yahoo's design team
  • solarwind24, on 02/16/2008, -1/+131000 workers, including designers. They're not all necessarily designers.
  • trghpy, on 02/16/2008, -4/+16I hope this doesn't affect YUI development...
  • YHCIR, on 02/16/2008, -0/+12This has been happening lots recently, and people just blindly digg articles without reading them.
    Even though 50 people have dugg up your comment, this article has too many diggs to ever get buried. =[
  • Gabberwok, on 02/16/2008, -0/+11You're giving him a bad name.
  • lex0nyc, on 02/16/2008, -3/+14Yo momma last night.
  • haydesigner, on 02/16/2008, -2/+13@drewxhawaii: "why would "***** didn't work" be the design team's fault?"

    The mind staggers....
  • smhill, on 02/16/2008, -2/+13Yea, but you left out a very important word. It distinguishes between two groups.
    "US Army footwear discontinued!" vs. "US Army discontinued!"
    See, I just left out one word.

    "If anything - it's that I left out the word "innovation." but I only have so many words I can include in the title. "

    That is a stupid excuse, the phrase "Yahoo's Entire Design Innovation Team Fired" fits perfectly with 17 characters to spare. And it is accurate.

    So the conclusions we are left with is that you are:
    1. Spinning the titles to get diggs, or
    2. Didn't really read the article yourself, or
    3. You aren't that bright and don't understand the difference.

    None of which digg.com benefits from.


  • lex0nyc, on 02/16/2008, -6/+17The were literally "developing advanced fonts." And people say corporations are an efficient business model...
  • RegalGSX, on 02/16/2008, -6/+16Yeah, their graphics are still stuck in the 90's.
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