"Your one stop website checklist! Launchlist is intended to help and encourage web designers and developers to check their work before exposing it to the world at large."

"iPad apps are inconsistent and have low feature discoverability, with frequent user errors due to accidental gestures. An overly strong print metaphor and weird interaction styles cause further usability problems." — Jakob Nielsen

David Walsh gives 7 Quick CSS Enhancements for Better User Experience. Via Mr Turley.

Jared Spool writes on 'User Interface Engineering' about the importance of correct wording and through user testing. By changing one simple button value, Spool helped an unnamed company increase their sales to the tune of $300 million in one year. Removing ambiguity ensures that the user knows exactly where they stand.

iA: "UX Design. [It's] Sort of preposterous isn’t it? The idea that someone thinks they can control how you feel."

iA: "Technology often develops from primitive to complicated to simple. The web develops faster and is more client focused than traditional technologies. Web development is cheaper, more flexible and most importantly: everyone can contribute to its development. In concrete terms: Better interaction design, less graphic design. Better user experience, less debates about taste. Faster technology, more reliable design standards…"

Jason Santa Maria on A List Apart: "As more typefaces hit the scene, we need to understand how they can best serve our designs, and to push ourselves to move beyond mere novelty in our selections. If much of the web is made up of text—and it is—web typography can be a very powerful tool indeed."

Wilson Miner: "After years of wondering why browsers defaulted to 16pt text sizes I’m starting to be convinced that long text really is significantly more readable on screen at precisely that size."

The gentleman that is Tim Brown (who was kind enough to invite me on to Dribbble) recently posted on A List Apart about his 'Web Font Specimen' resource. WFS allows for designers to see how typefaces imported via @font-face render in web-browsers.

Via iA: Most websites are crammed with small text that’s a pain to read. Why? There is no reason for squeezing so much information onto the screen. It’s just a stupid collective mistake that dates back to a time when screens were really, really small.

Via iA: "95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography."