• Usability Geek delivers as always with a nice piece on Colour: User Experience and Psychology

• Gabe of @macdrifter fame writes about User Aware Apps

• We reposted 2 articles from Joshua and Joshua of 52 weeks of UX: What does it mean to be simple? and Is UX the Key to a Long-Lasting Bussiness?. Both highly recommended.

• Carolyn Knight and Jessica Glaser wrote about When Typography Speaks Louder Than Words on Smashing Magazine

• Small Surfaces brings you 8 Rules for Effective Touchscreen Interactions

Last week brought us some interesting articles!

Wells Riley made a beautifully designed, one-page site about design for startups called Startups, this is how design works.

Alex Sexton on The UX of Language.

A new chapter in the encyclopedia of http://interaction-design.org about Visual Aesthetics in human-computer interaction and interaction design.

A post on Simurai about Icon Sharpness.

@hanaschank writes about UX design as a two conversation in UX Magazine. She uses this video by Google Analytics as an example:

Paul Boag (@boagworld) on selecting fonts in Photoshop with Font Picker

Justin Mifsud (@justinmifsud) from Usability Geek with an excellent and lenghty piece on beautiful navigation in portfolio websites (on Smashing Magazine)

Also on Smashing Magazine: Aarron Walter (@aarron) with a sample chapter called Redesigning with Personality from the upcoming printed Smashing Book #3. We really were a fan of Aarron latest book Designing for Emotion, so we’re curious about this one!

Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) hopes pagination on websites will end and explains why

Sascha Greif (@sachagreif) wonders why startups can’t find designers on The Next Web

And our favorites from last week are:

• Braden Kowitz (@kowitz) is an interaction designer at Google Ventures. In Story-centered design: Hacking your brain to think like a user he explains how he stopped designing screens and only works with storyboards, prototypes and screencasts for interactive products now. A really nice article, and by far the most retweeted and favorited external link we tweeted last week.

• @AndrewTurrel talks about how The Extinction of the Scrollbar changes the User Experience of many products in UX Magazine.

• @PunchCut is a design agency that wrote up a technical but nonetheless informative guide — Shrink to Fit: Designing Scalable User Interfaces

• @KirillCool explains why those icon fonts aren’t all that — About those vector icons

• @SachaGreif made a very nice ebook on UI design for web apps — Step by Step UI Design

And our favorites this week are:

• Stephanie Rieger goes beyond the ‘mobile users are in a hurry’ dogma: Mobile users don’t do that

• A 7 step guide to website usability on Usability Geek.

• An original and cute design theory presentation: How to design for bears

• Luke W gives a breakdown of the most popular multi-device layout patterns

• The elements of a clean web design on Six Revisions

• An extensive guide to responsive navigations patterns by Brad Frost

• 16 interviewing tips to get better data from user studies by Michael Margolis on the excellent Design Staff

• Martha Rotter tells us about Designing Engaging And Enjoyable Long-Form Reading Experiences on Smashing Magazine

• UX Magazine featured an article on better use of paper in UX design by Marcin Treder

• Font Awesome is a really nice free iconic font for use with Twitter Bootstrap

• Nir Eyal explains how a lot of the success of curent startups depend on being addictive: Habits Are The New Viral: Why Startups Must Be Behavior Experts

• The W3C has a subset of the full HTML5 specification available that is geared towards Web authors. All the user-agent implementation details are ommited, making it an excellent reference document for writers and front-enders concerned with having semantically valid markup.

• Lis Hubert talks about the de-evolution of UX design.

• Intercom’s Eoghan McCabe shows how stupid emails that can’t be replied to are: no reply is better than no-reply.

• A nice overview of biases and irrational behaviour on PsyBlog. How The Mind Really Works: 10 Counterintuitive Psychology Studies

• Tara Hornor gets the most out of Effective Minimalism in Experience Design (UX Booth).

• A usability study on how touchscreens are handled: Finger-Friendly Design: Ideal Mobile Touchscreen Target Sizes (Smashing Magazine).

• Helen Walters on 4 Elements That Make A Good User Experience Into Something Great (Co.Design)

• Lukas Mathis describes the things that make webOS better designed for doing work than iOS in Please Steal These webOS Features (Ignorethecode).

• Dereke van Harms made a beautiful HTML presentation on his take on The New Web Design Guidelines

Best links this week:

• Read how to make responsive navigation with CSS and HTML on Smashing Magazine Coding

• Trent Walton explains: “To design responsive websites effectively and responsibly, I had to completely redefine the way I view the web”. Go read redefined, it’s great.

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