Can Experience be Designed?
Experience, individuality and mind control.

101 Things I Learned in Interaction Design School
A promising new blog consisting of easy to digest bits of info.

Complete Beginner’s Guide to Interaction Design
A very decent intro to IxD. For a more in depth treatment, read A Project Guide to UX Design.

Don Norman in Interactions Magazine

A systems analysis goes beyond the design of individual screens or actions. It considers the entire experience from start to finish: thought through action through reflection. To make this a whole, seamless, coherent experience requires considering each action, each system response, each message – whether verbal or visual, silent or audible, visceral or behavioral, haptic or happenstance – all as part of the whole. Make sure that each message is consistent with the others in tone, voice, locus, and message. All steps must be readily accommodated, with the system always anticipating and ready for whichever choice the person makes. This is what it means to be a system: to think of everything.

Usability Testing Versus Expert Reviews
Under what circumstances is it more appropriate to do usability testing versus an expert review? What are the benefits and weaknesses of each method that make one or the other more appropriate in different situations?

Negative space in logo design
Nice examples, including the ones below:

American Institute of Architects Center

Egg and Spoon

Guild of Food Writers