Human-to-Human design

Help your audience fall in love with you by moving beyond human-to-computer interfaces and embracing human-to-human design says Sharon Lee at A List Apart...

A framework for designers

Jeff Croft write at ALA:

These days, “framework” is quite a buzzword in web development. With JavaScript frameworks like the Yahoo User Interface library, jQuery, and Prototype getting a lot of attention and web application frameworks like Rails and Django getting even more, it seems like everyone is using some kind of framework to build their sites. But what exactly is a framework? And are they only useful to programmers, or can we web designers benefit from the concept, as well?

Google to answer no more...

Google is bidding a quiet adieu to Google Answers.

No explanations have been provided to the reason behind this move, but wonder if Yahoo! will follows suit or is this a shot in their arm? Interestingly Rashmi Sinha had posted an entry on her blog about Yahoo! looking for a lead designer for their Answers team, and one of the comments was about potential experience issues with the concept itself. Might be something worth pondering about...