"Google Web Fonts lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Web Fonts API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and are served by Google servers."

"The redesign disease is in full effect on the Web. It teaches us that it's quick and painless, and we can always redesign our problems away. And the cycle of meaningless design continues. It's time to stop this madness. Realign it, or refine it. Focus and attack the high priority issues that will cause little disruption and improve on the experience. Set up ways to measure and diagnose specific problems."

"However, if you base your entire design on this base font size (using ems), then as it increases or decreases, so will your design. Using ems allows your designs to be resolution independent."

"Budd has a different name for it, 'loss aversion', but his explanation is very similar: 'People expect the pain of losing something to be greater than the value gained from its replacement,' he says. Consequently, new sites have to be significantly better than the old ones to overcome that initial subconscious recoil."

"More often than not, the mobile experience for a Web application or site is designed and built after the PC version is complete. Here's three reasons why Web applications should be designed for mobile first instead."

Less Framework is a cross-device CSS grid system based on using inline media queries.

"That's when I tell them about the fundamental question of the web."

"We might clumsily call these stages: [1] fragmentary, [2] integrated supply, and [3] demand-influenced."

"...research results such as eye-tracking studies, reports, analytics, and usability surveys..."

"As the distance between the maker and user increases, so does the difficulty of designing a great user experience."

"The list below includes Nielsen’s heuristics in bold; our comments about how they apply to RIAs follow each heuristic." from Boxes and Arrows.

"The hardest challenge is to blend Web and desktop paradigms to create a responsive and intuitive experience." from UX Magazine.

"Learn how to use fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries to create elegant user experiences with responsive web design." from A List Apart.

common mistakes or overlooked areas.

Learn how the principles of museum curatorship inform and shape how we approach content on the web. from a list apart.

It's time to reinvent the discipline of web design. Web designers are faced with a challenge: to be professional web site architects, or to seek work as decorators.

Understand the business objectives, establish clear calls to action, and test against the right tasks. from 24 ways.

The purpose of a redesign is to improve usability, update the brand or take the website into a new era. from smashing magazine.

A good usability professional must identify high-priority problems and make appropriate recommendations. But a good designer must also be able to design well in the first place. This is one area in which usability testing has the power to hone designers’ instincts without the cost of formal testing on every project. from a list apart.

User research helps you make good, solid, confident decisions about design. The good news is that it doesn’t need to be complicated. from a list apart.

In this video from The Future of Web Apps London (FOWA), Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, WeFollow and Revision3, shares 9 things he did to increase his users to 1,000,000 and beyond.

Guidelines for Transforming Your Library Website. from ALA TechSource.

from smashing magazine.

Eye tracking studies provide unique insight into user behavior. The following 3 eye tracking studies were part of my research for my redesign.

How to Develop a Library of Web Design Styles at Your Fingertips

a view into the redesign proces of mozilla.org

A solid and common understanding of goals, organization, layout, personality, and fit and finish will create an environment in which you (and the project owner) can rely on rigorously discussed and well documented ideas. Together, you’ll create smaller margins of error, purposeful exploration, fewer broken expectations, and, ultimately, a better design.

web professionals share some pointers.

from sitepoint.

designing for touch-based mobile user interfaces.

analysis of academic library organizational culture, patterns, and processes.

the web site is your library's most important feature. from library journal.

from Inside Higher Ed by Steven J. Bell.

methods, challenges, content, and tips.

from embossing to carousels. from smashing magazine.

object-oriented api for accessing and retrieving information from video and audio files.

establishing a plan for script management, etc. from a list apart.

integrate progressive enhancement into your css. from a list apart.

the difference between redesigning and realigning. from a list apart.

informed by a lefebvrian conception of cyberspace. from a list apart.

a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. from boxes and arrows.

training, quality, functionality, redundancy and flexibility, and commitment. from vitamin.

important elements and relevant details to include.

from maintainability to reusability.

precedence, spacing, navigation, design to build, typography, usability, alignment, clarity, and consistency.

emphasis, contrast, balance, alignment, repetition, and flow.

clarity. light and shade. precedence. etc.

"Collocation, Differentiation, Completeness, Information scent, Bounded horizons, Accessibility, Multiple access paths, Appropriate structure, Consistency, Audience-relevance, Currency." from Boxes and Arrows.