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Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services
Kim Goodwin

This 740 page book is phenomenal! An excellent reference with lots of sensible advice and insight.

Later: The Research section of this book alone is phenomenal! And no where is the process of conducting interviews, modeling data and developing personas outlined in such detail. Proof – if proof were needed – that personas are based on research, not pulled from thin air.

For as long as I have been using OS X – when you tried to eject a disk that had an application running or a document open you would see the following ambiguous error. If you happened to have a lot of different applications running or documents open, finding which was preventing you from ejecting the disk was a guessing game.

I upgrade to Snow Leopard this past week… I was pleasantly surprised to discover that one of the many tweaks that made it’s way into 10.6 was this clarification as which application or document was culprit. And if there is more than one cause, both are listed.

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

A new book from Thomas Pynchon. I’m not sure what I think so far – except that it’s strange. Here’s a recent review from The New Yorker which seems to be as ambivalent as I am about it.

Much, much later:

I read about pre-release book teasers or trailers in a NY Times article, and the article referred to teaser made for this very book, scripted by Pynchon and narrated by Pynchon. The trailer was pitch perfect – and Pynchon makes a credible ‘Doc. My first and last video embed – I swear!

About Face 3 Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin

Wartime Writings: 1943-1949 by Marguerite Duras

Notebooks containing early drafts and sketches of works like The Lover and The War. Probably not of much interest for the casual Duras reader, but it’s certainly of interest if you happen to have ready everything else by Duras.

How do you design? A Compendium of Models by Hugh Dubberly

An excellent 150 page free download.

Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World: Adaptive Path on Design by Peter Merholz, Todd Wilkens, Brandon Schauer, and David Verba

The Stages of the Usage Lifecycle. From Designing for the Social Web: The Usage Lifecycle

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Designing for Sign Up (video & slides)

Web Form Design by Luke Wroblewski