Usability is ridiculously important to your website. It doesn't matter how cool your website looks or how amazing your content is if visitors can't quickly, easily, and enjoyably access and use it. Many of them will eventually just give up and look elsewhere. So how do you make your website as usable as possible? Well, you're in luck, because this article features 20 usability tips for your website. Technology will always change, thus changing the usability tips. So make sure you share your own tips and tricks with the rest of us.

Porn for book lovers. A photo blog collection of all the best bookshelf photos from around the world for people who *heart* bookshelves.

Der New Yorker Designer Karl Zahn hat mit Slide eine Pendelleuchte entworfen, bei der man nicht nur die Helligkeit, sondern auch den Lichtkegel steuern kann. Die Metallspangen werden durch ein umlaufendes Band zusammen gehalten und je nach Position wird der Schirm geöffnet oder geschlossen. (via Stilsucht.de)

The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Ed. Free textbooks written by more than 100 leading designers, bestselling authors, and Ivy League professor...

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Protecting your passwords, photos, contacts and other sensitive stuff on your iPhone or iPod touch.

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

There are tools that make our lives much easier. However, finding those obscure time-savers which would save time in every single project isn't easy and requires a lot of time. At Smashing Magazine, we are regularly looking for such useful tools, gather them, review them and eventually prepare for a truly smashing round-up. Such posts are quite lengthy and extensive, but they are always worth checking out.

… «In this brilliant and entertaining user’s guide, Jeremy Keith cuts to the chase, with crisp, clear, practical examples, and his patented twinkle and charm.» (eBook and/or paperback)

Because sometimes, being your own worst critic is not enough.

What is so special about this pencil that its devotees will accept no substitute and make them willing to spend $250.00 for a box of them?

Designers have coveted print for its precision layouts, lamenting the varying user contexts on the web that compromise their designs. Ethan Marcotte advocates we shift our design thinking to approp…

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Are we pulling our punches too much when it comes to critiquing design? Are we being honest with one another?

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Nach dem kleinen Schränkerücken gibt es das Design Tagebuch nun auch auf Facebook. Wer bislang im Blog mitgelesen hat, und meine eher vorsichtige Haltung im Umgang mit den sozialen Netzwerken kennt, der mag sich nun vielleicht fragen, wie es dazu kam. Zur Entstehungsgeschichte habe ich etwas auf der unten verlinkten Facebook-Seite geschrieben. Einige werden sich vielleicht ja noch an mein 1 ...

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Israel is a young country with an old heart. It has been quickly built up over the last 60 years as an independent democratic Jewish state and is shockingly cutting edge for a country so new. What’s unique about Israeli web design?