Fantastic. RT @odannyboy: I give you: The IxD Library

Magic tables, not magic windows

If you want to tech the tech, you need to tech the tech with the teching tech tech. Tech the tech? Yes / No"

Using Foursquare is like a game with a very clear output.

The users don't care if it's digital (taking a picture with a digital camera) or analogue (taking a picture with a Polaroid-camera), as long as the desired output is achieved.

"Systems are both becoming highly complex and highly integrated into our lives. Many systems are losing abstraction completely, and not always for the better, while complexity is increasing abstraction of information. This is why everyone is so fascinated with touch-screens of late. They quickly reduce the level of abstraction for interacting with a computer device."

"I must say that I’m quite convinced that Time, Abstraction and Metaphor are still core elements of foundation in thinking about deconstructing interaction designs separate from the embodiments they are contained within"

Kind of old but still a useful read - Human Computer Interaction (HCI) by John M. Carroll: #hci

A story about Apples design process where they go from 10 to 3 to 1...

Very comprehensive list of books for the Usability and Interface Design people