Recommended Reading

What can we learn from the redesign of drupal.org? Design iterations and designing in the open

Adding this blog to our feed. It comes highly recommended.

CMU Master's theses look to improve local communities

Communicating Customer and Business Value with a Value Matrix

Livia Labate 's Open Letter to The Information Architecture Institute

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.

Is Gall's Law true?

A List Apart is featuring a nice article about how UX Designers need to embrace agile development process

Comparing Renaissance lace books' to pixels and typography on the web

Last week I was enjoying coffee with a colleague downtown and he was talking about starting a local UX book club. Seemingly, out of nowhere this became a world wide initiative via discussion posts on IxDA.org

Have you join a UX book club in your area?

The importance of usable documentation

Getting into gaming industry as interaction designer?

The IxDA board is announced

Adaptive Path's magnetic prototypes

Jakob Nielsen's take on agile methodology

Cooper talks about Rich visual modeless feedback, pronounced Riv Mof

Luke Wroblewski discusses common visual design misconceptions at UX matters

John Yesko discusses what user experience consultants can learn from Barack Obama

Photosynth has to be seen to be understood.

The idea behind it, as shown in this TED video, is the ability to view, zoom, and navigate digital images in multi dimensions. The entire 7+ minutes is worth watching, though the most compelling example is of the reconstruction of Notre Dame done entirely by scraping Flickr images that have been related spatially (begins at 03:50 in video).

Sunday evening I joined the design geeks in the DC area and went to see a film about a font. This sans-serif font is both loved and loathed. It is Helvetica. Massimo Vignelli says it's one of three acceptable fonts in this world.