Webby Award Winners Announced

Winners of this year's Webby Awards were announced today. Here are a few highlights from the Web category:

Best Visual Design - Function

• Webby Award Winner: TED.com
• People's Voice Winner: Apple

Charitable Organizations - Nonprofit

• Webby Award Winner: Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster
• People's Voice Winner: Kiva.org -- Loans that Change Lives

Cultural Institutions

• Webby Award Winner: Design for the Other 90%
• People's Voice Winner: Smithsonian Education

Science

• Webby Award Winner: Nature.com
• People's Voice Winner: NASA's Earth Observatory
  

See the complete list of winners.

The Web Design Survey

The fine folks at A List Apart have published their 2007 Web Design Survey. The survey, conducted in April 2007, drew responses from about 33,000 web professionals. That's a lot of of data, and ALA has provided the survey findings in both summary and raw data form. For free.