As a Solution Architect, I recently had to help design and evaluate quite a few different people search pages, both public (e.g., lawyer or doctor search), or in intranet environments (e.g., employee directory).
Doing so many people search implementations one after the other really made me think about the different ways in which searching for people is different than searching for documents or products.
This article will focus on the public people search pages, and how to best design them.