James Box on interaction design as behavioural modifier. I really enjoyed this - mainly for its thoughts on architecture, branding, marketing, copywriting, rather than just on pure IXD. Some interesting products in there, too. Worth another look.

This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about around a year ago - the value of bespoke, beautiful UI to interact with mundane code; people aren't just paying for software here, they're paying for interaction design.

Some interesting user research, especially when it comes to understandings of the device, and perceptions of the App Store. It's amazing how people's attitude to price changes when you've got a small screen, a market saturated with cheap goods, and a product that isn't in a box.

"'What we've done in MMOs and what we tend to lean toward is building an enviroment for the new player to explore that is essentially a safe environment... the newbie zone. For our explorative learners, we've given them safe zones to explore.' But that doesn't work for imitative learners." Excellent article on styles of learning, with particular attention to how MMOs teach players game mechanics.

"I think this is very important. If we limit ourselves to only designing the present then the ‘future’ will just happen to us, and the one we get will be driven by technology and economics. We need to develop ways of speculating that are grounded in fact yet engage the imagination and allow us to debate different possible futures before they happen." Interesting interview with Dunne over at the Adobe site.

"This is a write-up of my diploma project in interaction design from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. The project is entitled ‘Adventures in Urban Computing’ and this weblog post contains a brief project description and a pdf of the diploma report." Well worth a read, and beautifully presented. I need to chew over this more.

"Kars does a lot of prototyping, which he explains in some detail. He also said some pretty interesting, and uncoventional, things about the relationship between design and understanding of, and involvement in, the technologies of implementation."

"I don't think iPhone brings anything new to the table. It has a great user experience, but that's all." This is the problem with corporate IT condensed into a single quotation.

"The result is a casual game with surprisingly nuanced and interesting characters, with whom the player begins to feel she has a real relationship -- even though all the dialogue occurs in cut scenes which we have no ability to alter." Excellent.

"Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop"

"This led me to investigate the evolution of game controller over time, a topic already addressed by others." Some nice, detailed graphical analysis of the mess that is controller design over the years.

"One-Sheeters are quick and easy marketing tools for information architects. They're like mini brochures to advertise IA deliverables and promote the IA practice in your company."

Leah Buley's IA Summit talk. Lots to take away from - a bit of a kick up the arse for me in regard to my failings as a designer. Ah well.

"We don't want to be a beautiful website, we want to be a beautiful part of the web." Matt Jones' talk from IXDA08 in Savannah. Lots of cracking stuff calcified really well in here. Bravo!

"What does rich mean to a UI (user interface) designer who wants to craft intelligent, compelling, and memorable interactions?"

"As a trained guitarist and budding programmer, the future scenario for the sonic gaming interface for me became crystal clear: Two battling guitarists in a classic street-fighting video game. I thought, what better game to play that Mortal Kombat?" - thi

I've read this several times over the past year. Really is time to stick it into delicious, I feel

Lots of lovely free IxD pdfs. Better read them, then.

Voice-controlled blender. Lovely.