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The Peanut Butter Theory of User Interface Design

Task-Centered User Interface Design [http://hcibib.org/tcuid/index.html] is a 1993 book delivered in digital shareware form, and also available as a PDF [http://hcibib.org/tcuid/tcuid.pdf]. Although it's almost fifteen years old, it's still highly relevant-- a testament to the timelessness

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Let's Build a Grid

Khoi Vinh, the design director for the New York Times, explains how essential grids are to web design in his SXSW presentation with Mark Boulton, Grids Are Good (Right?). So much web design work relies on establishing a grid and the constraints on that grid: ad sizes, display size, browser