Dan Saffer, whose book (Designing for interaction) you should be reading, started a side project where he documents a series of inspiration bits for the interaction (and interface) designer. Check out his “No ideas but in things” - nice. (Via Adaptive Path’s blog)

Over at Digital Web Magazine, Jeff Cram posted an article for those of you who design and deploy websites and care about analytics. He outline some of the do’s and don’ts of site structure and goes into how CMSs play a role in site search engine placement.

George Olsen has a good post on Designing Breakthrough Products on UXMatters, and covers the impact of user-centered design techniques on the process. The article is full of interesting points, so save some minutes of your weekend to read through them.

Lawrence Lessig has a very good post on the Ethics of Web 2.0, and how sites like YouTube are “Fake” sharing sites where you can’t really get the content back. The post ends with a very important thought:

If YouTube is a trend, this is a depressing turn. No doubt, that amazing company has a billion things to think through (including what to do with more than a billion dollars). But one thing it really needs to keep in focus is a very important part of its success: That it was seen to respect the ethics of the web. Why post on YouTube rather Google Video? At least some did so because YouTube was “cooler.” Whether it continues to be as cool depends critically on the values it practices.

And finally, Andrew Crow over at Adaptive Path reminds me of an old passion for libraries in his “Library Porn” post, which is quite small, but definitely passionate. The experience of libraries is probably something I’ll post about soon (and to be honest, I’m dying to get back to Seattle and walk through the public library again).

Have a great weekend!