Nathan Philpot. Design is honest.

An excellent article on mental models and how it relates to usability, by Mary Jo Davidson, Laura Dove, and Julie Weltz at Depaul University, Cognative Psychology 404, on November 15, 1999.

A few articles I found on the design process. The first one here, the second here, which actually quotes the first.

Products get worked on in parallel by all departments at once—design, hardware, software—in endless rounds of interdisciplinary design reviews. Managers elsewhere boast about how little time they waste in meetings; Apple is big on them and proud of it. “The historical way of developing products just doesn’t work when you’re as ambitious as we are,” says Ive, an affable, bearlike Brit. “When the challenges are that complex, you have to develop a product in a more collaborative, integrated way.”—Article by Lev Grossman

The idea of design divorced from engineering is laudable, but the way it so often plays out makes it implausible…The idea of there being these two separate things has to be forced away from our thinking. They are one team, which produce one product.—Jack Shedd

As the latter article states, this is very difficult as the size of the project or number of people involved in the project grows. But as we all see, from the products produced by Apple, it is worth it.

Big Contrarian by Jack Shedd.

An inspiring talk given at TED by Benjamin Zander.

WebAnywhere is a web-based screen reader for the web. It requires no special software to be installed on the client machine and, therefore, enables blind people to access the web from any computer they happen to have access to that has a sound card. I will be using it as a testing tool for my designs.

Try it out for yourself.

Real Lawyers Have Blogs by LexBlog.

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Berkeley University of California by Miguel Ripoll.

The task here was to have each module or piece feel like a desktop window. Whether or not this is actually a good solution is another question and open to debate. Interface design, usability, Javascript (All JQuery).

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This is a small piece of a prototype interface I developed for flipping through something similar to notecards. Let me know what you think. Interface design, usability, Javascript (All JQuery).

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Website redesign for A+ Book Fairs. Graphic design, illustration, HTML, CSS, Javascript (All JQuery), PHP (nothing to get excited about, just some includes).

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Nathan, you are the best!—Client feedback