Micah Alpern

Current

Director User Experience for Open and Social search at Yahoo!

Past

Design Lead for Yahoo Answers at Yahoo
Lead User Interface Designer at eBay User Experience and Design
Senior Interface Designer at eBay Inc.

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Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Recommended

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Connections

362 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

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Micah Alpern’s Summary

Micah Alpern is the Director of User Experience for Social Search at Yahoo! He's currently responsible for several initiatives including Yahoo! Answers, the worlds largest Q&A site and the Delicious social bookmarking service. Prior to Yahoo! Micah was a lead designer for Selling and Mobile at eBay and was a founding Director of the Interaction Design Assocaition (IxDA). Micah is a alumni of the Human Computer Interaction program at Carnegie Mellon.

Micah Alpern’s Specialties:

HCI, interface design, product management, social software, social graph

Micah Alpern’s Experience

Director User Experience for Open and Social search

Yahoo!

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

October 2007 — Present (1 year)

As the Director of User Experience for Open and Social search at Yahoo! Micah is responsible for fostering an open ecosystem for innovation built on top of Yahoo! Search. This includes SearchMonkey, and other ways of helping 3rd party developers build innovative applications on top of the Yahoo! Search.
Design Lead for Yahoo Answers

Yahoo

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; yhoo; Computer Software industry)

July 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 6 months)

Defining and executing the User Experience Strategy for Yahoo Answers, a leading social search product.
Lead User Interface Designer

eBay User Experience and Design

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ebay; Computer Software industry)

March 2006 — July 2006 (5 months)

• Lead the User Experience team for eBay Mobile and Disruptive Innovation.
• Consulted on User Experience for corporate strategy and business development.
• Created cross departmental processes and tools to improve quality, innovation, & time to market
Senior Interface Designer

eBay Inc.

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ebay; Computer Software industry)

June 2003 — December 2005 (2 years 7 months)

• Designed the next generation “Sell Your Item” web application used to list over ½ a billion items for sale annually.
• Collaborated with leaders in business, product management, and development to identify key user goals and develop a global selling product roadmap.
• Mentored user interface designers on eBay’s product design frameworks and guidelines.