A great post on "design engineering."

The Tao of Deadlines,

Quoted: The personal site of Andy Rutledge. Website design, standards compliant code and css development.

Quoted: Design is arrogance.

Quoted: The designer says, “I know what you want better than you. Here it is.” A designer offers judgment as superior; as Henry Ford said, “If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.” (Fig. 1.)

Quoted: Design is humility.

Quoted: Users are experts in their own lives, lives the designer will see only if she understands their wants and needs. Design is recognition that “good” only makes sense in that context.

Quoted: I gave a speech at Innovation Night at the Royal College of Art in London on Tuesday and here it is. It's my latest thinking on innovation and design. There are a number of bottom lines in it but perhaps...

Embracing the constraints of working on design for the iPhone.

This is the most oft cited paper on writing use cases.

A great 37signal blog post on the act of writing, both in the literary sense and in the software sense.

Quoted: Whether we’re authoring software or prose, rewriting is key. Rewriting is when you turn good into great. It’s true for books, blog posts, marketing copy, interfaces, code, etc. For all of them, we grind it out. We get something down, share it, get feedback, revise, and then do it over again. We get where we’re going via lots of wrong turns.

Ummm, these "power laws of innovation" sound like Blue Dot.

Quoted: Power Law 3: Enable human agency. Design people into situations, not out of them.