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Typography joke (go on! Click the link!) — Design You Trust Logorama — The Oscar-winning animated short film made up of iconic logos! Words that zing — A List Apart 10 geekiest decorations for your home or office — Mashable 15 must-have free apps for your Mac — Make Use Of 10 amazing lessons you [...]

The top 5 web design debates that cause the most riots — Line 25 How to make remote team collaboration work — Six Revisions All about web accessibility — Konigi “Mad Libs” style form increases conversion 25-40% — Luke W Ideation & Design 5 reasons to be on Twitter, even if your audience isn’t — [...]

World’s leading telcos unite to take on Apple — Sydney Morning Herald The comprehensive guide to saving images for web — Six Revisions e-Commerce design resources: the ultimate round-up — Hongkiat Information gathering: a round-up of UX applications — UX Booth CMOs: Your brand is on digital time — Forbes.com The $5 guerrilla user test [...]

Successful strategies for selling ad space on low traffic websites — Smashing Magazine Onboarding: designing welcoming first experiences — UX Mag Interview with the authors of Remote Research — UX Booth Tableau Public: data visualisation service — via Konigi Unique blog posts and wordpress tips — Web Designer Wall 10 keys to effective non-profit organisation [...]

Recommended design reading — Jason Santa Maria iPad user experience guidelines as everyday design tips — Kitsune Noir Showcase of well-designed Mac application websites — Six Revisions 40 beautiful corporate websites — Vandelay Design Blog Flashpoint as Jobs takes aim at Adobe — Sydney Morning Herald What to expect in 2010: UX/UI design simplicity — [...]

Design trend predictions in 2010 — Web Designer Wall Social media’s true impact on Haiti, China, and the world — Mashable Fantastic information architecture resources — Noupe The importance of web interactivity: tips and examples — Hongkiat How your phone can keep tabs on friends — Sydney Morning Herald A brief history of eye tracking [...]

Five technologies that will keep shaping the web in 2010 — Six Revisions Best of CSS design 2009 — Web Designer Wall Pantone Unveils Color of the Year for 2010 — myPantone Factors that affect usability — Six Revisions The weaker side of usability guidelines — The UX Booth Google browser size helps keep your [...]

Principals of effective e-commerce search — Smashing Magazine Writing user-friendly content — The UX Booth 25 awesome gift ideas for designers and developers — Six Revisions A blob walks out of a clock tower in Brisbane — Brand New Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design — Vitsoe Usability testing toolkit: resources, articles and techniques [...]

Site search trends for e-commerce websites — Vandelay Design Negative space in logo design — Logo Design Love Ten commandments of social media — Noupe Twitter rated 2009 word of the year — Sydney Morning Herald Complete beginners guide to interaction design — The UX Booth You can’t innovate like Apple – Pragmatic Marketing 3 [...]

I’ve just finished reading Steve Krug’s excellent book on web usability called Don’t Make Me Think. It’s often the case that people (clients and web designers alike) know their websites too well. So well they can’t see them from an objective viewpoint anymore. That’s why I really like Steve’s reasoning for doing user testing: “Testing [...]