Here are a few links from my bookmark folder on the subject, in no particular order: How to use contrast to your advantage- http://www.gomediazine.com/design-

Here are a few links from my bookmark folder on the subject, in no particular order: How to use contrast to your advantage- http://www.gomediazine.com/design-tip/rule-three-contrast-contrast-contrast/ http://www.gomediazine.com/design-tip/rule-three-contrast-co... Use colors that have varying intensities, not just differnet colors. Focus on how it looks in greyscale http://www.gomediazine.com/design-tip/becoming-a-master-designer-rule-two-limit-your-colors/ http://www.gomediazine.com/design-tip/becoming-a-master-desi... Visualizing Fitt's Law http://particletree.com/features/visualizing-fittss-law/ http://particletree.com/features/visualizing-fittss-law/ Software Has personality. http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2007/09/lightrooms_goals_1.html http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2007/09/lightrooms_g... Copy sites you like, such as: http://orderedlist.com/articles/single-line-css#comments http://orderedlist.com/articles/single-line-css#comments or http://www.joyent.com/ http://www.joyent.com/ How to make your designs suck less: http://jimwhimpey.com/blog/2007/simple-ways-to-help-your-design-suck-less-1/ http://jimwhimpey.com/blog/2007/simple-ways-to-help-your-des... Load faster, by doing a low-res version first. http://www.wait-till-i.com/index.php?p=464 http://www.wait-till-i.com/index.php?p=464 How to do sound design http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/why_is_that_thing_beeping_a_sound_design_primer http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/why_is_that_thing_beeping... More on Sound Design http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/03/22/how-to-make-user-interfaces-musical.html http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/03/22/how-to-make-user-... Use smart color pickers http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=6434 http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=6434 Whitespace Matters! http://alistapart.com/articles/whitespace http://alistapart.com/articles/whitespace You can make a UI feel responsive, by minimizing the number of clicks http://tantek.com/log/2007/02.html#d19t1813 http://tantek.com/log/2007/02.html#d19t1813 Write Production UIs, never use placeholders http://a-simian-mind.blogspot.com/2007/03/user-interface-is-as-important-as-code.html http://a-simian-mind.blogspot.com/2007/03/user-interface-is-... A gradient Tutorial http://9rules.com/blog/2006/08/a-gradient-tutorial/ http://9rules.com/blog/2006/08/a-gradient-tutorial/ Aza's tips http://ajaxian.com/archives/death-of-the-desktop-by-aza-raskin http://ajaxian.com/archives/death-of-the-desktop-by-aza-rask...