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Here are a few links from my bookmark folder on the subject, in no particular order:

How to use contrast to your advantage- http://www.gomediazine.com/design-tip/rule-three-contrast-co...

Use colors that have varying intensities, not just differnet colors. Focus on how it looks in greyscale http://www.gomediazine.com/design-tip/becoming-a-master-desi...

Visualizing Fitt's Law http://particletree.com/features/visualizing-fittss-law/

Software Has personality. http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2007/09/lightrooms_g...

Copy sites you like, such as: http://orderedlist.com/articles/single-line-css#comments or http://www.joyent.com/

How to make your designs suck less: http://jimwhimpey.com/blog/2007/simple-ways-to-help-your-des...

Load faster, by doing a low-res version first. http://www.wait-till-i.com/index.php?p=464

How to do sound design http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/why_is_that_thing_beeping...

More on Sound Design http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/03/22/how-to-make-user-...

Use smart color pickers http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=6434

Whitespace Matters! http://alistapart.com/articles/whitespace

You can make a UI feel responsive, by minimizing the number of clicks http://tantek.com/log/2007/02.html#d19t1813

Write Production UIs, never use placeholders http://a-simian-mind.blogspot.com/2007/03/user-interface-is-...

A gradient Tutorial http://9rules.com/blog/2006/08/a-gradient-tutorial/

Aza's tips http://ajaxian.com/archives/death-of-the-desktop-by-aza-rask...



Wow. Thank you.

(An up-mod didn't seem quite sufficient.)


Always glad to help. The key thing is to read blogs of people who are better Usability than I (and possible you) ;)

If you read other people's blogs, they find the interesting stuff for you.

http://www.37signals.com/svn/ http://daringfireball.net http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

When you start to see that they keep linking to a site, and saying there's a good article there, then start reading that site too ;)


Hey, the smart color picker link gives an error. Could you repost it please?




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