Weekly Reads (Week of December 12, 2008)

Agile vs. Waterfall trade-offs for human-centered design initiatives

A great line-up of speakers at AIGA Gain Conference 2008, and good insights from Hot Studio participant.

The age old question - lead with UX vision or with technical constraints in mind. How fluent should UX resources be with the technology on which their solutions are being built?

Nice summary of why flexible form entry fields provide a better experience

Anticipating a great wall of deliverables at the 2009 IA Summit

Flash, HTML, Ajax: Which will win the Web app War?

A little fun with Photoshop for iPhone

A list of 2009 design conferences

Looking forward to reading this book, to be released in early 2009