Two out, and an old account brought back to life. The Lab loses its user-interface usability director.

Added

Representative Linden (revivified account from February 2003)

Absent

Benjamin Linden (Director of user experience/user-interface usability; 4 years, 4 months)

Rountree Linden (Director of support, billing and fraud ops; 1 year, 8 months)

Yes, that’s Benjamin Linden who worked on developing the Viewer 2 user-interface, in conjunction with at least two design firms. Initially, there was Big Spaceship and by the end there was 80-20. It isn’t clear exactly how many external firms got involved in the development and design; just the two, or more than that. I’ve been told that there was a lot of friction between the firms and the Lab during this time, but don’t have any particularly strong corroboration for that.

I interviewed Benjamin back in November of 2008. You might find it interesting to compare the current viewers with the views at the time that they were being designed.

So, two out and one account revivified gives us a net loss of one account compared to last week, bringing us to 244, but an actual reduction of two staff.

Disclaimer: The data here is drawn from Linden Lab’s Second Life grid databases. If the information here is incorrect, it’s because Linden Lab isn’t providing correct data. The departures are also verified against the Lab’s new version profiles which seem to be quite a bit more accurate.

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Tags: 80-20, Ben Glenn, Benjamin Linden, Big Spaceship, John Rountree, Linden Lab / Linden Research Inc, Representative Linden, Rountree Linden, Second Life, Second Life viewer 2, Virtual Environments and Virtual Worlds, Weekly Linden account changes