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some nice, clean slides with great metaphors; possibly a good tool for sharing with the product team. Also check out principle #4: "you are iterating your solution as well as your understanding of the problem." I like this approach.

Great demos, and awesome CSS3 buttons

Very cool stuff... the transitions bother me a little. I'm of a notion that animation should be handled by js while (cross-browser) design should be strictly in the css. Fantastic stuff to use for personal projects, tho, if you really really want to avoid js at all costs.

sort of related - very easy and enjoyable ordering experience

I like this quote: "But the most difficult question is not really whether or not the user can figure out how to use the product, it is whether they even want to use the product. Usability is usually the easier part."

You've heard it before and you'll hear it again - the old ways of web design don't work anymore. Our designs can no longer be stuck in 960 grids or on a single device. There are literally hundreds upon hundreds of devices that can access the web (includes video of how-to presentation!)

The BBC has a pretty innovative design practice. Bad pictures, good read.

I like this comment about traditional prototyping: "This is all well and good, yet the tools employed - Axure, Flash, paper mockups - are inherently fake, and therefore fail to test the most important mechanic; how people interact with actual content. Worse still, they are throwaway deliverables; expensive to create, but contributing nothing to the actual development effort required to create the live site."

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