Rob Grady

Here are 50 Great Examples of Data Visualization HERE

SXSW Interactive 2009 is coming up next month and it looks promising. Here are a few of the panels that look interesting:
The 7 Rules for Great Web Application Design
How Not To FAIL At Web Services
More Secrets of JavaScript Libraries
Microformats: A Quiet Revolution
Emerging Trends of Mobile Technology
Designing the Future of The New York Times
Version Control: No [...]

Christian Watson has put together a Design Showcase with over 70 different elements. It’s a great reference when brainstorming and wireframing.

After many months and countless hours of hard work we’ve finally launched NextAutos into the wild. An evolution of Winding Road Magazine, NextAutos is a new site for automotive enthusiasts. More to follow but thanks to everyone from nFusion and Rain City Studios for bringing it together.

Design Sessions has a good interview with Luke Wroblewski. In particular, I thought the following passages were very interesting:
“Q: How do you know when a design is successful? How does your definition of success relate to usability, technology, and art?
Luke: A site is successful when it achieves the goals you set for it. I know [...]

I’m currently reading Sketching User Experience by Bill Buxton and he does a great job illustrating the critical difference between problem setting and problem solving in the product design process. He points out, “problem setting can be characterized by the question, ‘What is the right thing to build?’ and problem solving answers the question [...]

Great UX team article on UXmatters.com by Pabini Gabriel-Petit. The article does a great job outlining real world problems such as ‘throwing docs over the fence‘, the discrete discipline roles and how they should work together. While organizational roles differ by organization, I’ve found that the more disciplines represented in the process, the more innovative [...]

Jeremiah Owyang has a good podcast discussion with Steve Gehlen Steve Gehlen on the state of the Web Strategy Industry about the growth of the web strategist role. While I don’t think anyone who is a “decision maker and stakeholder of a website” is a web strategist, it is interesting to consider the lineage of [...]

Mark Boulton does a great job of explaining color theory basics.
Five Simple Steps to designing with colour part 2: A few basics : Journal : Mark Boulton

Great list of interaction design books from Luke Wroblewski. I have most of them on my shelf and need to set aside some time to finish reading a few of them