MICHAEL HOLZER
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Yahoo! Mac Messenger
2011
Interaction Design, visual design, User Research
Yahoo! Messenger for Mac
  • After spending several years designing and working on the Windows platform I leaped at the chance to work on a client for the passionate Mac users. The Yahoo! Messenger for Mac hadn't been touched in almost 3 years when I took on the project. I helped get it ready for Tiger. 
  • The design focus for this client release was "less". Mac OS has always done a beautiful job of preserving a simple UI by reducing the visible affordances to what's really necessary. We actually removed features for this release but increased our user satisfaction ratings. 
  • This spec explains how search results should look and the different actions available for the results. We focused on the defaults and keyboard behaviors to help reduce the mouse to keyboard hand switching. 
  • This spec shows the different status icon states for both group chat as well as individual conversations. 
  • To this day this is one of my favorite features of any IM client. The CMD N dialog would allow you to quickly search on a contact and open a conversation window with them. It was simple, elegant, and our users loved it.
  • For the launch of the Mac client I also did the website design to accompany it. This usually falls onto the visual designers lap but I was happy to help give our site the much needed Mac love. One thing you can also see in this mock is one of our new icons - the web cam resembling the iSight. We spent countless hours perfecting our icons, although I didn't do the artwork I helped review and offer feedback to help the team nail the photo realism of the Mac OS icons. 
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  • Zvents Nameplates
    Mocks from the zvents event and venue nameplate redesign.
    Interaction Design, Visual Design
    2011
  • Zvents Search
    Mocks from the Zvents search results page redesign.
    Interaction Design, Visual Design
    2011
  • Zvents Hot Tickets
    Analysis and redesign of the Zvents event detail page right rail.
    Interaction Design, Design Research, Visual Design
    2011
  • Zvents Top40
    Mock up of the Zvents Top40 site.
    Product Management, Interaction Design, Visual Design
    2011
  • Zvents for Facebook
    This is a set of designs for the Zvents Facebook App.
    Product Management, Interaction Design, Visual Design
    2011
  • Knack.Me
    This is the concept work for my startup called Knack.Me
    Entrepreneurship, Design
    2011
  • Xobni for BlackBerry
    This is a sample of the design work I did for the Xobni Mobile for BlackBerry.
    Product Management, Interaction Design, Visual Design
    2011
  • Xobni Enterprise
    This is a sample of the product and design work I did for Xobni Enterprise.
    Product Management, Interaction Design, Visual Design
    2011
  • Xobni Extensions
    These are the designs for a couple of Xobni Enterprise Extensions
    Product Management, Interaction Design, Visual Design
    2011
  • hi5 IM
    This is the design for web based on IM on hi5.com
    Interaction Design, Visual Design, Product Management
    2011
  • hi5 Gifts
    This is the design for hi5's virtual gifts
    Interaction Design, Visual Design, Design Management
    2011
  • hi5 Mobile
    This is the design for the mobile hi5 site.
    Interaction Design, Visual Design, Design Management
    2011
  • hi5 Homepage
    This the design and iteration examples for the hi5 homepage redesign.
    Interaction Design, Visual Design, User Research
    2011
  • hi5 Design Patterns
    Examples from the hi5 design pattern library.
    Interaction Design, Visual Design, Design Management
    2011
  • Cyclocross Magazine
    This is work I did as a co-founder of a magazine about the niche cycling sport of Cyclocross. The magazine is still up and running by my co-founder, I stepped away to continue to work on digital projects.
    Print Design, Entrepreneurship
    2011
  • Yahoo! Pingbox
    Yahoo! Messenger Pingbox allows users to chat anonymously with their website visitors using the Yahoo! Messenger service.
    Interaction Design, Design Management
    2011
  • Yahoo! MyM
    Yahoo! MyM blended IM and Social Networking.
    Interaction Design, Design Management, Visual Design
    2011
  • Yahoo! Messenger SMS
    Integration of SMS into the Yahoo! Web Messenger Product.
    Interaction Design, visual design, design management
    2011
  • My Yahoo! IM Widget
    This is the design for the My Yahoo! Messenger Widget.
    Interaction Design
    2011
  • Yahoo! Messenger Plug-ins
    This is the design for the first version of the Yahoo! Messenger Plug-ins.
    Interaction Design
    2011
  • Yahoo! IM Archive
    Yahoo! IM message archive project.
    Interaction Design, design management, User Research
    2011
  • Opsware
    Opsware Desktop Application Design Specification
    Interaction Design, Usability, User Research
    2011
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