Emad Fanous

Looks like Yahoo has launched a User Interface Blog:

This blog is the companion blog for two libraries we’re proudly releasing today. The new Yahoo! Design Pattern Library offers our thinking on common interface design issues for traditional and rich Internet applications. The new Yahoo! User Interface Library is a collection of industrial-grade JavaScript utilities and widgets that enable you to efficiently get the most out of today’s powerful browsers. In both cases, these are the exact same things that power Yahoo! today.

The two libraries each stand alone, but also complement the extensive Web Services offered by Yahoo! properties via the Yahoo! Developer Network (and others around the Web). With today’s release, we’re starting to tell a complete cover-to-cover story. A web service is one thing (and a pretty cool thing at that), but we believe it’s even more potent when combined with proven interfaces and enhanced with JavaScript and AJAX goodness.

They have some good, general UI tips there even if you don’t want to use those libraries. The libraries are free to download under the BSD Open Source and Creative Commons Attribution-By Licenses.

The Yahoo! User Interface Library “is a collection of JavaScript components that help developers enrich web applications with desktop-style, event-driven interactions. [They]’ve focused on creating a lightweight and modular library with an a la carte deployment style, minimizing the pageweight associated with this move toward greater richness…These are industrial-grade components. Their design has benefited from the input of more than 100 web engineers at Yahoo!, and we’re working hard to make usage both clear and flexible. Each utility and widget in the library has been battle-hardened in the browsers of millions of users” (emphasis is mine)

The Yahoo! Design Pattern Library was released “to share the common patterns that [they] see emerging at Yahoo! It is hoped that by opening up [their] design patterns [they] can share [their] current thinking as well as solicit your valuable feedback…[Yahoo] believe[s] design patterns are powerful. First, they offer a solution in context of a problem. Second, they provide a name for the solution. Taken together as a set, pattern libraries form a solution language that can enhance our ability to communicate design ideas.“

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