External Sites
Ideas & Inspiration
An official update to the original "Shift Happens"
Online talk about gestural and touch interfaces
Interaction Design
Graphic Design: The New Basics
Foundations of Interaction Design (Slideshare)
Processing
Affordances
The 20 Most Important Tools Ever
Silly Products (I admit it - I do want some of these)
Signifiers, Not Affordances (a bit "heady" but you can handle it)
Web Design
Photoshop, HTML, CSS and more
Designers Toolbox: Web Safe Area
A List Apart
A List Apart explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.
Visual communication, art direction. Designing systems or interfaces to help users achieve goals. Graphic design, interface design, user experience design, typography, illustration, photography, artwork. Creative and technical techniques for crafting great interfaces. Developing an appropriate look and feel. How web users respond to design. Identity systems and brand development. Visual styles, influences, and trends. (152 articles)
Markup, style, scripting, and server-side techniques in the service of user-centric interfaces and tools. Cross-browser XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Roll your own X using scripting or markup language Y. Producing clearer, saner, more secure code that plays well with others. The love/hate relationship between layout and markup. Workarounds for that irritating bug and why (or why not) to use them. (366 articles)
CSS Tutorial (The best CSS reference on the web)
CSS Play (I admit it - I have often "borrowed" his stuff)
Dynamic Drive (Another fantastic resource)
Firefox Developers Extension (You must have this!)
Layers Magazine: Adobe Tutorials (Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver - you name it, they have it)
You Suck at Photoshop (These tutorials are actually excellent, but the subject matter is a bit raunchy.)
Grids
David Hockney
Artist known for grid compositions
Five simple steps to designing grid systems
by Mark Boulton
History of the Grid
Wikipedia (Sometimes it's useful!)
Grid-Based Design 101
CSS Resource