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Ernst & Young collaborated with Molecular to build the site “Ey Insight”. The student career microsite includes personalized tools for prospective employees.

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Tags: ey, design, dev

Ernst & Young have just launched a site that I had a hand in building. EY Insight is a college prep tool for students interested in a career at EY. It’s the closest I’ve seen to a true JavaScript and Flash hybrid, mixing them together so well that you can’t really tell them apart. And, this is true high-fidelity JavaScript animations sitting on top of full-screen Flash video: they are damn smooth and look damn good all the while!

Why is it cool? It’s one of the first sites I’ve seen that mashes up JavaScript (in this case YUI) and full-screen Flash video. There’s some pretty complicated Flash/JavaScript interaction going on, and I really haven’t seen too much like it. (Thanks SWFObject and Alisdair Mills). This is the biggest YUI app that I’ve launched, and brings a nice, high profile to how much fidelity you can get out of a JavaScript app.

What did I do? With the design/UX team, I helped drive the interaction design for this one, especially the Picture Yourself app. Really cool, snappy, sensible interactions there: this is how to make a quiz "not boring". I also did a lot of the JavaScript heavy lifting (a big chunk of the JavaScript back-end and the Object modeling) as well as the bulk of the Flash / JS interaction work before helping David (below) when I could spare a minute or two.

Props to David Tong of Molecular’s San Francisco office, who was the sole full-time engineer on the project for doing some really nifty work.

Yes, I snuck in conditional compilation on this, too. Another interesting note: IE6 has some interesting issues while trying to destroy Flash objects and Flash streams. Seems to orphan them a lot. This might be worth another post in the near future.

Tags: yui, launch, production, ajax, flash, video

I’ve been cranking out a bunch of presentations at work lately. That demands that I have a lot of stock imagery on tap. (Plain old words and bullets get boring after a while.) The best place for it? Flickr, of course.

I needed an easy way to do an advanced search that would let me fetch images open for commercial use under that Creative Commons license. So, I wrote Mozilla search plugin that accomplishes it. I creatively named it “Flickr CC+C” for “Creative Commons & Commercial.” (Choose the second one; the first one’s broken, but there’s no way to get it down.)

[tags]mozilla, search, flickr, firefox[/tags]