Scott to Lead User Experience and Design for Meebo Product Line
Today Meebo announced that Bill Scott, a distinguished leader in user interface (UI) engineering and design, has joined the company as Vice President of Product Engineering. Utilizing his broad-based expertise in both interaction design and engineering, Scott will oversee the User Experience and Web Engineering teams at Meebo.
"We are delighted to welcome Bill Scott to Meebo," said Seth Sternberg, co-founder and CEO, Meebo. "Bill's extensive management expertise in user interface engineering organizations will be key to growing our product engineering division as we continue our focus on bringing engaging, intuitive, and delightful user experiences to Meebo's growing suite of products."
Prior to joining Meebo, Scott was Director of User Interface Engineering at Netflix. At Netflix, Scott and his team built the highly acclaimed Netflix user experience for over 12 million members spanning from the browser to the living room to mobile devices like the Apple iPad. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and is co-author of the popular O'Reilly book Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interaction. Prior to joining Netflix, Scott launched and developed the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library at Yahoo!, where he also was the Ajax evangelist.
"My decision to join Meebo was the result of a strong belief that the best way to experience the Web is through conversation and sharing, and that this is exactly the Meebo experience," Scott said. "I am excited to be part of a passionate, talented, growing organization and look forward to contributing to the ongoing success of Meebo."
For more information, watch this video of Scott and Meebo co-founder and VP of Product Elaine Wherry discussing Scott's new role at Meebo and his approach to user experience design and engineering.
About Meebo
Meebo enables more than 100 million users to instantly connect, share, and communicate with all of their friends. Because Meebo integrates all social network and communication channels into a single, simple-to-use interface, users can easily share content and communicate in real time with the people who matter to them. Meebo connects people to their friends on the thousands of websites that have installed the Meebo bar, on mobile devices, and at Meebo.com. Meebo was founded in 2005 and is a privately held company headquartered in Mountain View, CA. For more information, visit www.meebo.com.
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