A great post on "design engineering."

Awesome. I recognize problem #1 and #3. It's not about addressable markets. I still think that is BS and fails more often than it works. It's about building something useful for someone you know.

Quoted: Social Web Design by Joshua Porter

I always wondered how my the navigational arrow on my computer actually worked. Check out this brilliant demo!

A great article on attempting to strike a balance between User Centered Design (UCD) and Agile Development. This describes much of the friction and a realistic although loose explanation of how these two process can be made to fit together over time...

This is the description of a simple UI problem that has existed forever (well, since Amazon started doing recommendations) and still has not been resolved in a satisfactory way. I don't like the blogger's solution but it is a reminder that sometimes your biggest gains can be acheived by cleaning up the crap you already have.

Secure storage is getting a new provider with a model that slices up data and places them in various places such that they can only be reconstructed by the original machine... Cool idea.

Quoted: New software divides digital documents and other files into slices that can only be reassembled by the computer that created them, then stores the slices on the Internet.

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.