Frameworks like YUI, JQuery, Mootools, Dojo, etc., are arguably the best thing to have happened to JavaScript in 10 years. I remember when I first learned about their existence. I was coding my own animation script (functional, not OO, and definitely not efficient) that didn't do anything fancy; just scrolled up and down. I remember then hearing about dojo, and thinking I'd wasted so much time.
Then what I did, was go around to all the different frameworks. I don't even think JQuery existed in it's current incarnation at that point (December of 2005), and I looked around at as many as I could (dojo, mootools, and a few others that have since become relics). This post though, isn't about the greatness of these frameworks; rather it's about the terrible abuse.
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One of the best article's I've read in the past month is entitled
Heuristics for User Interface Design
In short, it's a set of suggestions rather than rules, that should be kept in mind when designing a user interface or experience. I'm tending to lean away from the word interface, as an interface is only good if it's experience is effective. Gmail's experience is what affects me, it's interface is just what I look at rather than what I use.
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