good search/browse discussion

(1) Unintended, (2) Self, (3) Genius, (4) Activity Focused, and (5) User Focused.

Spool, not a fan of breadcrumbs.

Jared writes about situations when a no-refresh control is appropriate.

To help managers with the assessment, we've created a simple 130-point scoring process. They can just walk through the various skill areas, rating their team on a 0-5 scale, based on the teams current level of competency. When done, they'll not only have an understanding of the team's overall effectiveness, but a clear idea of where to improve.

So, to add into the fray, here’s my thoughts on using personas... If you’re just going to guess on the personas, why bother? Just design for yourself, like the 37Signals team does.However, when you do the field studies, you create relationships with the people in your research. The persona becomes a package for containing what you’ve learned from your field research. A package that is transportable to everyone on the team, so they can have the same benefits of knowing the users as you have.

Jared comes out and says what many of us are thinking: that major site overhauls and relaunches are a bad idea