Quoted: Having a good program manager is one of the secret formulas to making really great software. And you probably don’t have one on your team, because most teams don’t.

Quoted: A redesign can be worth its weight in gold if you get it right. There is a thin line between freshening up your design, and taking a step backwards with a redesign.

Recommended by Roy on http://thisuser.com. Looks pretty cool.

Quoted: Mockups feels like you are drawing, but it's digital, so you can tweak and rearrange controls easily, and the end result is much cleaner. Teams can come up with a design and iterate over it in real-time in the course of a meeting.

Some thoughts re: landing page design.

Quoted: So the better you are able to help them answer these two questions, the more likely you will be to catch and keep them as a user.
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5 ways to CONFUSE users and get them to LEAVE
Here are a couple great ways to do exactly what you don't want:
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1. Presenting a portal as your front page
2. Use lots of marketing speak
3. Write everything in long-form text
4. Make them register to do anything
5. Treat every user the same

Instructions for Facebook application developers re: integrating with the new Facebook design.

Quoted: We’re getting ready to launch some significant changes and improvements to Facebook, including a new profile for users and a new navigation bar for the Facebook site. These changes are intended to help users communicate and share information more easily with each other - on their profiles, through applications, and through News Feed.

Well said...

Quoted: The process of making new things simple to win a market is a story that Apple understands extremely well, given their overwhelming focus on the user experience. There’s nothing really very simple or very “less is more”, about the iPhone, for example. Yet it gloriously made a bunch of clunky stuff simple and a lot of hard stuff possible.

I've been meaning to watch this series. Sounds like they've managed to combine comedy and education.

Quoted: This might surprise the millions of fans trying to guess who's the genius behind the hit Web series, You Suck At Photoshop, but no, it's not the comedian Dane Cook. It's not Will Ferrell, either.

Quoted: Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG), and covers the following to

Quoted: I'm not going to go so far as to say that there is a sinister plot brewing at Time magazine. But the above illustrates just how powerful even the most subtle tweaks on how information is presented can affect not only how we digest information but how we perceive it and digest it.