Portfolio: June 2007 - Today

YouTube Insight

Project Goals

  • Provide useful and interesting information to video uploaders about the performance of their videos
  • Keep all numbers relative and avoid exposing absolute figures that might conflict with those used in revenue sharing, because of differences in corrections for possible spam clicks

Work Undertaken

  • Found the best way to display data over given time and geographic ranges
  • Found suitable user interface controls for restriction of time and geography to certain regions
  • Separated aggregate views from those of views for specific videos
  • Integration of Insight into the YouTube account management interface
  • Produced design mockups and specifications for three phased release
    • Phase 1 - Exposure of viewing figures, distributed over time and geography
    • Phase 2 - Referrer data and demographic breakdown of audience
    • Phase 3 - Expose aggregate, channel level data to users

Google Transit Departure Information

transit

Project Goals

  • Produce HTML and CSS for transit information bubbles from mockups provided by Jonah Jones.

Work Undertaken

  • Formulated functional requirements document from mockups with designer and engineer
  • Produced CSS & HTML that conformed to functional requirements and worked cross browser
  • Found complex edge case stations that could be used to test different designs & code strategies
  • Ensure that text was accessible, resizable and internationalisable and that it localised elegantly for US, European, Chinese and Japanese Maps